Ben Gilbert: belief

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…That strategy would have worked really well 30 years ago, but in the social media era where individuals have Twitter accounts, a lot harder to control the narrative. Yep, speaking of hard to control the narrative, let's talk about blackballing Colin Kaepernick. I think an interesting place to start is the job of the commissioner. The commissioner is not the president or CEO of football. The owners are not their executives and the commissioner's obligation is not to the fans. The commissioner is hired to do one job and that job is speak for and do things that are in the best interests of the owners as a whole. If the most powerful owners want something, that is what the commissioner does. That is what the message is from the NFL. The NFL itself is a very thin layer on top of a whole bunch of teams that are their own very large businesses. In fact, a lot of hay was made about the NFL switching in 2015 from a nonprofit to a for-profit. The NFL has very little net income. Who cares what its tax filing status is? It all gets distributed out to the teams.…

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