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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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DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:50PM (2 children)
I never in a million years would have thought the riots next year would have been sparked by some sportsball drama.
I'm forming a very, very strange sociological picture of the USA. The older women go to church, the older men go to sportsball, and the young folks go to wherever it is SJWs go to get salvation.
Simply put, what these players are doing is akin to going to a church and refusing to join in prayer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:39PM
Off with their heads!
Your analysis of their outrage does make a lot of sense. Some recent comments made me realize that football, cheap beer, and nationalism are all tied together in the modern US propaganda stereotype. Infringe on any of those and you draw emotional outrage from the brainwashed masses, logic is out reactionary stupidity is in.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday September 29 2017, @05:47PM
Simply put, what these players are doing is akin to going to a church and refusing to join in prayer.
No, it's not that exactly.
To use your strained analogy, it's like the churches have *hired* a bunch of extremely (world-class) talented young people to provide their music services (instrument playing, chorus singing), but when the minister preaches about how awful young people are, and about how bad young minorities are in particular (and most of these hired musicians/singer sitting in the choir are minorities). and the congregation all loudly agrees with this, the hired musicians decide to protest by refusing to stand during parts of the service, and refuse to bow their heads in prayer. So now the congregation is mad that these hired hands are "disrespectful", but they also don't want to give up their world-class musical performances. You can't have it both ways. Employees have every right to protest, and employers have the right to fire them (according to certain rules and regulations), but that could very well mean they won't have any employees, or will only have incompetent employees. So the church can fire the "disrespectful" mostly-minority musicians, but now they're going to be stuck with volunteer singers from the congregation who can't sing on-key.
In short, if you want to enjoy someone's extreme talent, you better put up with them when they make a fuss about something. Or you can dismiss them and gamble that you'll find someone as good who doesn't give you as much trouble. Good luck.