By 60 percent to 36 percent, the nation thinks President Trump’s call to league commissioners last weekend (reported by ESPN) expressing a belief that the NFL season should open on time was inappropriate. Only 18 percent think the President or state governors should have the responsibility to resume play, while […] Read more »
Nearly 3 of 4 Americans Say They Won’t Attend Games Without Coronavirus Vaccine
While sports commissioners, governments and medical experts debate when to reopen sports leagues, a huge majority of Americans including a substantial majority of sports fans are prepared to stay home until the development of a vaccine for Coronavirus. … As for the possibility of playing games with no fans present, […] Read more »
Football fans divided on use of instant replay
A controversial no-call of pass interference in the NFC Championship had a lot of football fans talking about the use of instant replay. In general, 45 percent of football fans say instant replay should be used more often than it is now, but 41 percent think it’s being used the […] Read more »
With Nike, Kaepernick now more a political figure than athlete
The National Football League’s 2018 season is here and the national anthem controversy is back with a new wrinkle. Nike has launched an ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who started the kneel-or-stand anthem argument. … But companies don’t become multi-billion dollar brands by making […] Read more »
Stand or Kneel?
A new Grinnell College National Poll shows that feelings about what professional football players do, or don’t do, during the playing of the national anthem are as intense as all the news coverage suggests. The poll, conducted less than one week before this season’s National Football League kickoff on Thursday, […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority say kneeling during anthem ‘not appropriate’
A majority of voters say that it is not appropriate for NFL players to kneel during the national anthem to protest racial inequality in the United States, although the country is deeply divided on the question along partisan and racial lines, a poll released Friday from NBC News and The […] Read more »