Trump claims kneeling players hurt NFL attendance [View all]
by JANE C. TIMM
... The league told NBC News that attendance is down just 1 percent from last year, which NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy noted was a "stellar" year and the third highest in NFL history.
McCarthy added that 98 percent of available tickets to all NFL games have been sold, with ticket sales down 2 percent over last year, in part owing to reduced seating capacity for the Los Angeles teams. Excluding those two teams, ticket sales are down 1 percent, he said ...
"Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!'" Trump asked an Alabama crowd in September.
According to polls, a majority of Americans wouldn't love that. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released days after the Alabama rally found that 57 percent of Americans disagreed with Trump's view that players should be fired for protesting, while 68 percent of Americans felt that Trump's comments were inappropriate, according to a survey by USA TODAY/Suffolk University ...
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