Opinion | Will Leitch: 'If Goodell truly cared about police violence, he and the league's owners have a bizarre way of showing it. To come back now and claim the league is 'saddened' feels like height of hypocrisy.' - NBCNewsTHINK
arguing that the NFL owners' collective decision not to sign Kaepernick was a financial one. According to Lockhart, owners worried that they would lose season ticket holders if they signed the player, which is a rather absurd argument that ignores the fact that a much, much higher percentage of NFL revenue comes from television contracts.
This is also the mindset that helped get us here in the first place. Goodell and Joe Lockhart can tell themselves that even though Kaepernick's absence from the league is a disappointment, it's offset by"initiatives." :"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when someone disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now'?"
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