No sporting events now until .....

[VirginiaMike]

2 hours ago, scpanther22 said:

Not to turn this thread super political but with how close the NFL is to the current administration If the wheels can be greased in any way to get games started  on time they will be

 

The NFL is on the most conservative major sports leagues

Not talking politics in any way, but stating the facts the top 10 richest Americans (all but 2 - Koch brothers which are more Mitt Romney/Bush Type Republicans and they aren't Trump GOP fans) but 8 out of the 10 Richest Americans for almost a century are all Registered Democrats.  In over whelming majority of Owners & the finical backers of those owners are Democrats. 
As to the fan base that is harder to tell, but the owners of the NFL teams are all Democrats with a very small few that aren't such as Patriots Kraft (probably the only openly Trump fan amongst all the owners).

The owner of the Panthers, David Alan Tepper, is not a fan of Trump (by the way).

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article211157654.html

As shown in the above article.

That being said Trump can't force the NFL to not cancel its season.  That is totally up to the NFL, he could force them to cancel (along with the Gov.'s of each state that the NFL stadiums are in) but I think Trump will leave that up to the NFL knowing that if the data shows the fans could die from attending games that they will cancel if nothing else to avoid lawsuits.

Trump loves the NFL, and tried to buy the Buffalo Bills at one point (I think I didnt research that but I remember hearing that in the news along time ago) so he's def. an NFL fan but I don't know how much the NFL Organization loves him back (ie did he attend any NFL games the last two years)>?

I wish the NFL would get out of politics our Country is divided and we don't need an entertainment business getting into political propaganda for any political party.  Just keep it about sports man.

[Happy Panther]

3 hours ago, scpanther22 said:

A fan base isn't a representation of the ideas the management and owners have...those 32 owners plus Goodell are highly conservative its why they have it so good with Trump now compared to the NBA

You ain’t wrong but there are some blue owners out of those who donate. Billionaires do tend to lean right 

[trueblade]

Rents are due again on Friday. The political pressure to reopen will only increase. GA is reopening soon. The mall in North Charleston is reopening on Friday.

Once things start reopening,it's splitting hairs over how many people can be in a space. Given what we saw before the orders went into effect people will take a mile for every inch given.

I have a hard time seeing how we won't be back to normal by the end of Summer.

*This comes with my standard "All predictions wrong or you're money back" guarantee.

[BurnHurnBurn]

3 hours ago, scpanther22 said:

A fan base isn't a representation of the ideas the management and owners have...those 32 owners plus Goodell are highly conservative its why they have it so good with Trump now compared to the NBA

Yeah, China has nothing to do with it.  Nuh-uh. No sir-ee. China? Who is she? NBA dont know no China? pfft...

[Happy Panther]

8 hours ago, scpanther22 said:

A fan base isn't a representation of the ideas the management and owners have...those 32 owners plus Goodell are highly conservative its why they have it so good with Trump now compared to the NBA

 

5 hours ago, VirginiaMike said:

As to the fan base that is harder to tell, but the owners of the NFL teams are all Democrats with a very small few that aren't such as Patriots Kraft (probably the only openly Trump fan amongst all the owners).

The owner of the Panthers, David Alan Tepper, is not a fan of Trump (by the way).

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article211157654.html

 

 

4 hours ago, BurnHurnBurn said:

Yeah, China has nothing to do with it.  Nuh-uh. No sir-ee. China? Who is she? NBA dont know no China? pfft...

Just to follow up, the majority of political donations dollar wise are republicans but there are some staunch democrats and some others that just give to everyone.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/nov/11/sports-team-owners-make-huge-political-donations-where-does-their-money-go

Examples:

Rams: Mostly Democrat

Falcons: Split but presidential $$ to Hillary

Carolina: Leans dem and apparently hates Trump (JR was staunch republican)

https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/david-tepper.asp?cycle=16

Lions: Democrat

Pats: Interestingly his only partisan contribution is democrat but we know he loves Trump

Eagles: Only one donation for Hillary

49ers: Democrat

Bucs: Mostly Dem

Then there are teams that just throw money at  republicans most notably the Texans. Other teams stay bipartisan or don't donate.

Point being NFL isn't going to bow down to Trump.

 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

I would trade the very concept of professional sports having ever existed if there was some way the death, pain, and chaos would be over tomorrow.

[RASTAN66]

[mbarbour21]

Fans ain’t gotta be there, can’t they just funnel in the crowd noise? HAHA!

[trueblade]

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee To Be First Tourism Destination in United States Reopening on May 1st.

https://themeparkuniversity.com/theme-parks-101/pigeon-forge-tennessee-to-be-first-tourism-destination-in-united-states-reopening-on-may-1st/

If a theme park is okay to reopen in May,I gotta think the NFL season will be okay by August.

[Snake]

Life as we know it won't be normal until we get a Vax. 

[Happy Panther]

4 hours ago, trueblade said:

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee To Be First Tourism Destination in United States Reopening on May 1st.

https://themeparkuniversity.com/theme-parks-101/pigeon-forge-tennessee-to-be-first-tourism-destination-in-united-states-reopening-on-may-1st/

If a theme park is okay to reopen in May,I gotta think the NFL season will be okay by August.

I don’t think it is ok though. TN did peak early though.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-cases-are-still-growing-in-many-u-s-states/

[1of10Charnatives]

On 4/26/2020 at 3:16 AM, Happy Panther said:

 

 

Just to follow up, the majority of political donations dollar wise are republicans but there are some staunch democrats and some others that just give to everyone.

 

 

Emphasis added.

For the life of me I can't understand why The Supreme Court in all it's wisdom cannot exercise the horse sense God gave a donkey and rule that contributing to opposing candidates in the same race isn't freedom of speech but legalized bribery. At that point you can't even make the argument you are supporting a position or expressing one, you're just buying access.

Buncha useless old farts in black robes. Not protecting the public interest at all with this failure. Just catering to the rich and corporations. Thanks aholes. You were supposed to be the unbribeable branch cause you're not elected.