There is a ton of news about what the current NFL protests mean, politically speaking. For the moment, I’m leaving that out. I want to take a different angle.
The first thing to know is that Donald Trump once played a key role in an upstart pro football league called the USFL, which lasted three seasons (1983-85) before it collapsed.
As the owner of the New Jersey Generals and the most powerful force in the League, Trump went up against the NFL. He wanted the USFL to schedule its games opposite the NFL starting in the fall, not the spring. Trump was a key player in suing the NFL for monopolistic practices.
The USFL won that suit, and was awarded the grand sum of…three dollars. Yes.
So The Donald has held a grudge against the NFL for a long time.
His recent tweets and statements, urging the league to take action against players disrespecting the National Anthem, urging teams to fire protesting players…all this has a history.
But there is a deeper story, and it emerges at a time when television ratings for the NFL have already been declining, and the television networks – especially ESPN – are carrying massive billion-dollar contracts with the NFL for the rights to broadcast games.
This post was published at Jon Rappoport on September 25, 2017.
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