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DirecTV is allowing at least some customers to cancel subscriptions to its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games and obtain refunds, if they cite players' national anthem protests as the reason for discontinuing service, customer service representatives said Tuesday.
Under Sunday Ticket's regular policy, refunds are not to be given once the season is underway. But the representatives said they are making exceptions this season -- which began in September -- because of the controversy over the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem.
Spokesmen for DirecTV-parent AT&T Inc. (T) and the National Football League declined to comment.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday September 29 2017, @04:01PM (12 children)
Actually, I'd fully support not singing the anthem at all before ball games. I mean, what exactly do the Chicago Cubs or Green Bay Packers have to do with the War of 1812? The whole thing is completely silly.
Heck, the concept of a "national anthem" is pretty silly too: Really, one song is going to sum up everything about a nation? It's entirely possibly to be a great nation without a national anthem as the US was before 1931, and entirely possible to be a podunk nation with a really grand national anthem like Zimbabwe.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ledow on Friday September 29 2017, @04:09PM (7 children)
I support their right to have an anthem.
And their right to not stand for the anthem.
I wouldn't necessarily support their right to talk over the anthem, even though I think anthems are ridiculous hangovers of monarchy and patriotism. Because then one groups freedom is being ruined by another group's freedom.
Freedom has a limit which ends precisely at the boundary of another reasonable person's freedom. The second you interfere with someone else's freedom, you have a conflict and a problem that you could have avoided.
But "kneeling" or "not standing" or even "quietly playing on their phone" disturbs and interferes with NOBODY'S freedom.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 29 2017, @04:12PM (4 children)
I support their right to kneel during the anthem as well. I also support the right of viewers to not spend their money to be pissed off.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:54PM (1 child)
Then why are you complaining so goddamn much? Oh right, cause you're a HYPOCRITE! Seriously, you just can't see the conflicts between your very own statements. You are like the Orange Dictator, maybe we should have a new story category "TMBgret" where people search the archives for hypocritical TMB posts.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 30 2017, @03:52AM
Reading comprehension. Get some. I'm repeatedly saying that shitting on people is not how you win them to your cause. Go right ahead doing it if you like though. I don't much care for your causes anyway.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:27PM (1 child)
Should they get a refund for watching the game when their team loses then too?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:14PM
Mod other AC up for correct spelling!
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday September 29 2017, @04:28PM
The anthem is kind of like your alcoholic great grandmother/father. You don't always want to deal with him, but because you wouldn't be here without him you still let him ramble on about inane stuff because it makes him happy
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday September 29 2017, @07:37PM
Talking over the anthem would not actually ruin anyone's freedom.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by boxfetish on Friday September 29 2017, @11:56PM (2 children)
I support changing the national anthem to "This land is your land".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:09AM
That would be a much better choice. Another good choice would be "The Power and the Glory" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApvH1WDr_g [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday October 11 2017, @04:12PM
While I'd agree with you, my understanding is that Woody Guthrie didn't like that idea, because the last thing he wanted was to get official guv'mint sanction for his work.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday September 30 2017, @04:40AM
Probably hoping to see the White House burn again while the President cries and runs away.