ESPN announced Friday the network will not broadcast the national anthem prior to kick off of “Monday Night Football” games this season, according to network president Jimmy Pitaro.
“We generally have not broadcasted the anthem and I don’t think that will change this year,” Pitaro said, per Sara Fischer of Axios.com.
“Our plan going into this year is to not broadcast the anthem … again that could change. It’s unpredictable what could happen in the world but as of now, we’re not. We have communicated that back to the NFL. They have not asked but as courtesy and good partners we have let them know what our plans are.
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ESPN, don’t broadcast our National Anthem, so you can kiss the rear ends of the thugs in the National Football league and so, you ESPN, can erase a part of our history, namely the National Anthem. You, ESPN, are enablers of the charlatans, in the National Football Thug League. Shame on you
Yet another reason to boycott ESPN entirely.
That’s okay!
I won’t be watching NFL games AT ALL (screw them, screw you)!
God Bless America!
And for me, i won’t be watching ESPN or any of its related channels..
That’s 2 of us WardMD.
Show it or don’t show it
we don’t watch NFL.
Spend my time watching a John Wayne movie.
HEll, it’s gotten to the point, i would CELEBRATE if NO channel ever again, aired any NFL games.
Who in hell wants to watch a bunch of physical assailants and car thieves with thyroid problems play a kid’s game?
Soapy , you forgot wife or girlfriend beaters.
I agree with WardMD, I won’t be watching NFL anything.
A bunch of spoiled overpaid idiots that shoot a finger at my flag, at the men and women who have fought and died to defend the Constitution against all enemies (foreign and DOMESTIC). The same Constitution that guarantees these ingrates the right to their little hissy fits.
I also have the right to spend my time and money as I see fit, and that is not with the NFL.
It’s not just the games you shouldn’t be watching. CEASE playing any fantasy football leagues. STOP buying any merchandise that is sold by any team, or is endorsed by XYZ player..
Another reason for me not to watch them.
Oh, yeah–THAT is the solution. Just don’t play the national anthem, and there will be no over-entitled millionaires KNEELING IN DISRESPECT during the national anthem to protest how “oppressed they are, and there will be no fan backlashes and boycotts to protest their protest, problem SOLVED!
Typical left-tard solution to a problem. Never do the RIGHT thing, when you can support a WRONG one, instead! If they go through with this, then fans need to BOYCOTT them for eliminating the national anthem. I am so TIRED of this LEFTIST CRAP. Everywhere you turn, there is some group of CRAZED Leftists acting out their abject HATRED for this country, and their unending RAGE that the American people had the good sense and the GALL to actually vote them out of power!
T – You nailed it! 😮
The NFL is history. The timing of Vince McMahon’s intended launch of his XFL in 2020 will be a major football attraction that will overshadow wipe out the NFL.
All the low-IQ thugs in the NFL will not be offered a job and football will return to be a sport that is appreciated again.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t offer any NFL thug a job with the XFL..
I’m ashamed to admit that I peeked at a gamel last night and as I looked at my team’s starting lineup and noticed that of the 22 starting players on my team 18 were oppressed millionaires and 4 were potential racists. I am cognizant of the obvious racial disparity in the NFL but I think it’s abou time to use a page out of the brutalized millionaire playbook and whine about imaginary hardships and push for diversity . I long for the time when I will see more white guys, Asian linemen, Muslims ( with special helmets), Amish trash talking D.B. or maybe a few transgenders. Don’t get me started about the lack of fat ugly cheerleaders.
Shame on you for watching even 1 minute of a game..
Now drop and give me 50 pushups! 😉 😉
My dog changed the channel when I wasn’t looking
Maybe you need a remote with doggy controls (similar to kiddy control)..
Sure, and how long will it be before ESPN is deemed “racist” by the SJW’s in the media?
The FIRST time they fail to cater to the SJWs or say “no” to them about ANYTHING, they will immediately be declared “racist,” armbears.
IMO that’s HOW the entire leftist war group has gotten society to where it is.. because for decades they have been declaring us racists so long, too many folk are scared to do or say anything against the left’s agenda for fear of being called it in public..
I’ve given up on the NFL. I respect the right of the players to make a political statement and/or to protest, but not in their workplace and not when I’m either paying or using my time to watch what I expect to be a sporting event. They’ve hijacked the venue and ESPN seems to be complicit. I’m done with both ESPN and the NFL.
Destroying our economy, gov, schools, cities just wasn’t enough. Now the radical left, like the cancer that they are have destroyed our sports.
Make America Great Again, rid America of the National Felons League.
Then, my association with ESPN is over and done. I had already sworn off NFL. I guess NFL and ESPN wear the same shoes……
I have an idea — why not just ban the NFL and let all those “kneelers” see their income go up in smoke……. Or at least don’t televise any more NFL games. No publicity means no more million dollar salaries. Cause nobody will watch them make fools of America.
Not watching sounds like a good plan but is it? Have we learned nothing from those on the left? If we really want to make an impact we need to be contacting the companies that advertise on the games and let them know we aren’t happy and we’ll stop buying their products if they continue to advertise on any NFL games, not just ESPN. Once the league sees the hit to their wallets their policy will change.
Keep in mind that with all the people saying they weren’t watching last year the NFL still raked in more money than previous years. We must attack their advertisers if we want change.
Well, I guess the only football game I’m watching this year is Army/Navy. Bet no one takes a knee.
Let us HOPE no one takes a bloody knee in that one!