WillMacKenzie

I'm slow, set aside the NFL for a minute and explain to me how tv networks get their money to pay the NFL?

If I contracted the NFL to cater a benefit I was having for my cancer foundation, and they showed up with highly controversial staff and subpar food, how is that going to help me recoup my money? Surely we would have to negotiate something.

Maybe it's in the contract that the NFL can do whatever they want and the networks have to televise their latest social campaigns. Many businesses are far too eager to pontificate and change logos at the drop of dime, so that could be the case with the networks too, so I could be wrong in assuming advertisers would even care in the first place. In which case, whatever, we aren't operating in rational times anyway.

AsylumGuido

I'll bite. TV networks get almost all of their money from advertisers. Has it occurred to you that advertisers are the very reason WHY the NFL has changed their stance? Corporations all across the country are coming to terms that not following along with the prevalent wave of awareness will hurt their bottom lines. That's why so many have changed their televised advertising to reflect the same. They wouldn't want to advertise during NFL broadcasts if the league wasn't on the same page. That makes sense. The NFL is in the entertainment business. They make most of that business income off broadcasting contracts. The networks could easily be putting the pressure on the league to conform to their and the advertiser's liberal ideals.

I fear you have had the tail wagging the dog in your line of thinking.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill