NFL rejects AMVETS’ #Please Stand ad for Superbowl
Tim sends a link to the Daily Caller which reports that the NFL rejected an ad submission from AMVETS because of a hashtag (#Please Stand) that was included in the ad. Vice President of Communications at National Football League Brian McCarthy explains;
“The Super Bowl game program is designed for fans to commemorate and celebrate the game, players, teams and the Super Bowl,” McCarthy explained. “It’s never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement.”
“The NFL has long supported the military and veterans and will again salute our service members in the Super Bowl with memorable on-field moments that will be televised as part of the game.”
“AMVets (sic) submitted an ad last Wednesday with the line ‘Please Stand’ (no hashtag),” McCarthy continued. “We looked to work with the organization and asked it to consider other options such as ‘Please Honor our Veterans.’ They chose not to and we asked it to consider using ‘Please Stand for Our Veterans.’ Production was delayed as we awaited an answer.”
“As the program was going to production, the organization asked about including a hashtag and was informed that approval would not be provided in time and was asked to approve the ad without the hashtag. The organization did not respond and the program ultimately went into production to meet deadlines.”
Personally, I don’t care either way. Football fans have voted with their feet on the issue, and the NFL is a public corporation that can do whatever it wants. If football players don’t like veterans (and I believe that is NOT the case) that’s fine with me. It’s a free country and opinions shouldn’t be stifled.
I do believe, however, that all of this kneeling for the National Anthem actually contributed to the outcome of the presidential election last Fall.
Category: Who knows
My question is will the DOD be spending tax dollars advertising during half-time?
The NFL…won’t allow “political” ads…unless, of course, they are for some far left source in favor of killing unborn humans or profiting from disasters.
Or if those ads are to perpetuate the idea of ‘racial inequality’.
I’m more than positive that the NFL won’t have a problem with; ACLU, Amnesty International, HRC, AFL-CIO, BLM, Open Society Foundation, Moms Demand Somethingorother, etc.
Or a half time show that basically promotes the black panthers. Thanks Beyoncé.
Cheers,
MrFace
Man, did that pissed me off.
Did you know Beyoncé’s husband Jay Z professes views from the Nation of Islam 5 Percent Nation.
One of the dirty truths you won’t find in the wiki is that the Nation believes that Black scientists created all the other races, via an under standing of genetics, 50,000 years ago. Yeah…it gets better. 5 Percenters believe these scientists, realizing that negative evolutionary pressures are greater, created white people to hold down the other races, there by strengthening them, so eventually blacks can overcome and take their rightful throne.
Jay Z, Beyoncé, David Duke, Richard Byrd… not a damn bit of difference between ‘em.
We had some NOI sailor walking around NAS Cecil Field in the late 80’s early 90’s.
He was stirring up shit in the barracks and passing out NOI literature that had all kinds of racist stuff in it.
One of the most memorable was white people are white, because one of Noah’s children saw his naked ass while he was passed out drunk.
He tried to pick a fight with me in our barracks lounge. He asked where i was from, I said Washington State. He said, oh I know someone from Walla Walla. I said, are they at the prison? What I meant was, do they work at the prison. Because there are only two things I know about Walla Walla…the State Penn and Onions.
I bet that went well.
My retort to their stupidity, after being called a white devil I told them to keep up the good work, killing more of their own that the cops could ever hope to! One gentleman decided to remove the sideview mirror off the work truck.
The black dudes in my squadron knew I wasn’t racist, they calmed him down and escorted him out of the barracks. While I stood there dumbfounded as to what I said was wrong.
It may have been an ignorant response to his question…but I am ignorant when it comes to Walla Walla.
The NFL has become a political ad. There will be no advertising that doesn’t support their stance. Fuck ’em.
But they will allow the thug players to kneel for something politically powered? Gee that makes sense.
What’s a thug player?
I agree. Since I am not a leftist, I do not believe people or groups who disagree with me should be silenced.
Although I am happy that my Sundays have been cleared up to do other things with my life. Compared to college football, NFL games suck anyway.
There’s still baseball and rodeo.
Hockey as well.
MLB Network starts showing Spring Training games on February 12th!
Plus – you have to admit that the ladies (Kelly, Lauren and Heidi) are easy on the eyes…
http://m.mlb.com/network/personalities/?id=41537582
http://m.mlb.com/network/personalities/?id=41537572
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NASCAR season starts soon, although it’s pretty bland anymore.
Bland? I tried to watch a race. Couldn’t do it.
Totally emasculated the sport.
If NASCAR is a sport, then everybody who drives on I-285 around Atlanta is an athlete. After all, it’s just driving in a circle at high speed, isn’t it?
Yeah, it’s just a nice Sunday drive. So easy, even you could do it. 😂
NASCAR is awesome …. If you only watch the last 10 laps.
That’s why I watch Formula One. Indy Car sucks anymore since the IRL/CART split. NASCAR is as exciting as watching paint dry. As far as the NFL is concerned, they can F off. I got better things to do on Sunday.
MotoGP.
Another “Oh YEAH”. Sport! 🙂 That and Formula 1 Sidecar racing.
*high five*
Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona this weekend, then I will be looking forward to the World of Outlaws Sprint cars (I have a nephew on one of the race teams). Then the NHRA starts their season. Growing up around motorsports and living just down the road from The Glen when I was a kid made me a racefan from the beginning.
Nascar bans concealed carry in their museum. Screw them
I was watching some really strange tractor “pull offs” the other day.
They had some ungodly diesel engines belching coal dust. Better than football.
The “No Fun League” is at it again… and McCarthy is running his PR suckhole over the same issue.
FUCK. THEM.
The NFL had a chance to do the right thing, and they pissed all over it. Oh well, I had already decided never to watch another NFL game again. In light of this fuckery, I stand by that decision. Pro football is dead to me.
Yes. I stopped watching NFL games the morning the asshole Ravens knelt at the game in England. I’ll never watch an NFL game again. I thought it would be tough, but I’ve gotten used to it very quickly. The wife and I have more time together on the weekends now. Fuck the NFL. Freedom of speech. All for it, but these thug fuckheads have taken it too far. Speak out once and let it go. Aside from riling people up, what has this movement really done? If they really cared about what they SAY they are kneeling for, they would donate money to their towns and cities or donate their time. But, what they really want to do is to thumb their noses at the country and the flag. It’s a racist movement. It has nothing to do with cops shooting anyone.
You have no clue of what you are saying.
Oh well, if they want to continue their PC pissy-fits so be it, I hope there are empty seats at the Stupidbowl. After seeing those overprivileged pampered multimillionaires intentionally disrespecting our Flag and National Anthem in and calling it”protest” I said TO HELL WITH THE NFL!
Its gonna be really insane when all the Fans in Philly decide to what Philly fans do; be disrespectful to everyone. Hell, they booed Santa Claus one year.
NFL stance on political statements and its avid support of disrespect should speak volumes to millions. However, I see it as that not being the case.
Sadly, there won’t be. Seems they’ll be setting record prices. Again.
“I do believe, however, that all of this kneeling for the National Anthem actually contributed to the outcome of the presidential election last Fall.”
Interesting theory.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If these cheese dicks want to protest do it on a Monday, in their street clothes. Picket a street corner on your day off just like (the employed) others do.
They would get just as much of a ‘platform’ (just by who they are) as they would doing it during the game they play, without the negative connotation that stifles whatever it is they are trying to bring attention to.
Some ignorant Veterans cry that that the players are exercising their 1st Amendment Rights, Rights the Vets swore to defend. The 1st Amendment is working here you dumbasses, nobody is being arrested, nobody is being kidnapped in the middle of the night from their beds, or lined up against a wall to be shot.
The League had a chance to stop this disrespect, instead Goodell and the owners decided to go full potato, and buy in. That whole month of November’s Salute to Service is a slap in the face…just another money making scheme to sell merchandise, and ‘feel good’ about how much they care about service members and vets.
Growing up, we could get stations out of BC better than we could out of Seattle. Hockey was the first sport I ever watched, and I have rediscovered how much I enjoy it.
F#ck the NFL.
Holy Crap Atkron, that brings back memories of going to Sicks Stadium to watch the Seattle Pilots back in the day, or going to a Tbirds hockey game. Good times for a kid growing up in the Puget Sound in the 60’s.
I totally agree with you about the venue for protest; get out there with the real people, not on a football field where you are insulated by lots of layers of stooges from the folks who buy the tickets and bling that helps pay for your salaries.
And while their highly paid NFL ass is out there on the street corner or wherever, think of some E4 who is getting paid very little (in comparison), away from home and family and truly risking their ass so can exercise free speech.
I just wish I could get my shit together and watch an Everett Silvertips game. Those kids are kicking some serious ass on the ice right now. Apparently, so are the T-birds down in Seattle.
http://everettsilvertips.com/
The very fact that these fuckheads have the right to speak out like the assholes they are is the very reason they should get on their knees every other day but Sunday in praise of this great country of ours. But no. They thumb their noses at the flag, the country and the freedoms that our military fight for. It’s sick and disrespectful. They could give two shits about cops shootings black men. Hell, they blow each other away without the slightest thought. 50% of them would probably be pulling triggers themselves killing each other if they did not play football in the NFL. Let’s be honest here. All they are doing is taking advantage of the change to get they mugs on the TV screen pissing on the country and our flag. Fuck the NFL!!!!
They kneeling has nothing to do with the flag, but somehow you bring it up every time!
Fuck all of these over paid sparkle ponies! How many vets play in this trash league anyway? I have not watched an NFL game since all of this crap started!
At least one, and he was chastised by his coach for going out and standing outside the tunnel while the rest of the team hid in the locker room during the anthem.
The NFL and its team owners are certainly free to do whatever they wish. The practice and playing fields are workplaces and the players employees. If the league wants to allow protests, that’s its prerogative. What riles me is the free speech argument, which simply doesn’t apply to these kneelers and their enablers. Only to the extent that the NFL permits the kneeling, the fists thrust in the air, the hand holding, and what have you, is this free speech, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the 1st Amendment. If the NFL rules against these petty demonstrations, and players sued on the basis of denial of their right to free speech, the players would be laughed out of court. These protests are political statements, so it’s more than a little disingenuous for the NFL to say, as it has, that ads that are political are unwelcome. The NFL hopes this all blows over and wants no ads that remind viewers of the issue. That, I believe, is what this latest to do is all about. Me, I satisfied my football appetite all season by watching college games and live high school games. They are a helluva lot more fun.
I haven’t watched an NFL game on purpose since I was a child watching with my grandfather, I have trouble sitting on the couch for three or four hours with my head up my ass watching mostly commercials and 10 second intervals of action.
The NFL can do whatever the hell it likes with respect to allowing or disallowing protests.
I do find it amusing at how some guys kneeling gets everyone’s knickers in a bunch, as if that was the real problem with an organization that creates such a hazardous environment that the life expectancy of the average player is less than the average American. That didn’t bother anyone, just the kneeling.
We are a funny people we Americans, we cheer the return of a dog killer or a wife beater because they can throw or catch really well.
Although that shouldn’t surprise me at all.
Look at who we picked for president or the hag that ran against him. Clearly character, integrity, and honor are things that don’t matter to us at all in our entertainment or our politics. If they did the NFL would have gone down after the 1982 strike when they told fans all across America to go fuck themselves, but all the fans did was beg the league to start back again so they could spend their hard earned dollars on millionaires playing for billionaires.
The fans of the NFL are getting exactly what they deserve the same as we the voters are getting exactly what we deserve. It’s all on us in the end.
Sorry AC I meant this to be a standalone and somehow responded to your post instead, my humble apologies.
No issue. It fits.
I support the NFL’s right to chose what it allows on its broadcasts.
I also support the right of all red-blooded Americans to ignore the over-payed “athletes” and their “games”.
If it were not for the likes of JJ Watts, I’d have no interest in the NFL at all. But I still don’t watch their games.
That is a very pragmatic view. I can appreciate this loads.
Cheers,
MrFace
For alternative sports, I prefer women’s beach volleyball.
Oh YEAH!
Good point.
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Keep it pointed down range!
I enjoy women’s basketball. They don’t act the thug with every score.
Women’s college volleyball and gymnastics are faptacular as well.
There’s something strange going on with Super Bowl advertising this year, but it’s too early to tell exactly what it is. If you’re somebody interested in news media, such as myself, the interest also extends into advertising as a business. The one pays for the other.
It’s probably no surprise that ad agencies and their clients see the Super Bowl as a once-a-year opportunity to display their best work. Nor is the effort cheap. Current spots cost $5 million for 30 seconds of air time. Given those prices, there’s a serious focus on grabbing attention. Which also means that by this time in the seasonal cycle there’s a certain build-up to what’s going to run.
And it doesn’t seem to be happening this year.
With the exception of a gimmicky Skittles spot designed to be viewed by a single kid, the rest of the line-up seems about as bland as oatmeal. One of my own disappointments, for example, is that the agency Anomaly is not doing anything for the first time in ten years. Anomaly was responsible for, among other things, the very cool Budweiser horse and puppy spots from a few years ago.
Well, I already know I won’t be watching the Super Bowl. I have to wash my hair.
I’m rotating the air in my tires that day.
Haven’t watched Not For Long football in two years. I don’t miss it, at all.
Sooner or later, the NFL will ask for more tax concessions and outright bribes for stadium construction and other “keep the franchise here” crap.
I think they may be underestimating just how expensive the kneeling crap may be, in that context.
Apparently, the League decided that keeping the players happy made good financial sense. They seem to have forgotten that while the players do indeed fill the seats, it is the folks in the seats that are the money inputs, not the entertainers on the field. So deciding, deliberately, to piss off a significantly large population of fans is …. kinda dumb.
And as usuall for organizations that consciously decide to “roll left”, they will increase the roll as things get worse. Eventually, they will roll right over and capsize.
11B,
Man you hit one of my “that pisses me off” things; taxpayers subsidizing the construction of sports stadiums. Im probably gonna piss off most folks here, but my view is; if you build with public funds, you have built a facility for public use, by real people.
If youre going to house a privately owned business, then that business needs to build the stadium. I could go on…but then I would be boring all y’all more than I normally do.
At the least the Kingdome could be used for other events like the Boat Show, Car shows, and my favorite the Outdoors/Sportsmen shows.
Indeed.
Before I swore off football, San Diego had its years-long chickenshit drama with the Chargers [spit] threatening to leave if the city didn’t build them a new stadium. My take was a) bullshit, that multimillion-dollar franchise is perfectly capable of building their own goddamned stadium; and b) if they have the balls to make such a horseshit demand, first come back with a few Super Bowl rings and maybe—MAYBE—we can talk about it. Of course, the whole thing was an engineered crisis by the team owners who wanted to move the team to LA (good riddance), while simultaneously conning such a venue out of that cesspool at no cost to the team. It was blatant extortion from start to finish. In conclusion, fuck ‘em.
Pro Sports franchises have a bunch of really odd subsidies, from stadium deals to immunity from monopoly laws to piggybacking farm teams on public colleges.
Crony Socialism does not improve the game.
Any game.