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cab67

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20. This may be true, but...
Fri Jun 19, 2026, 10:01 AM
Jun 19

...the players would almost certainly sue anyway, and some right-wing legal outfit will represent them pro bono for violation of first amendment rights. Their case might be as worthless as a Trump promise, but the players will pay nothing while the team goes bankrupt defending itself.

Although I can't recall this happening with a sports franchise, it's happened with other businesses and even government agencies. Someone violates their contract to make some sort of right-wing point; they're terminated; they sue; they lose, but because some ideologue represented them at no cost, they spend nothing while the business spends enormously to defend itself. Or the business settles with the former employer, maybe losing less than if they'd gone to court, but still losing. And the former players get even more attention.

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I'd terminate every single one of them SheltieLover Jun 18 #1
That, unfortunately.... cab67 Jun 18 #2
I guess it would depend on their contracts, but it sounds like insubordination to me SheltieLover Jun 18 #3
Nope. They violated their contract. All professional sports contracts state players must do PR work AZLD4Candidate Jun 18 #4
That was my thought SheltieLover Jun 18 #7
All professional sports contract have clauses about uniforms and doing promotional work for the team AZLD4Candidate Jun 18 #8
I would expect such clauses in sports contracts SheltieLover Jun 18 #9
This may be true, but... cab67 Jun 19 #20
What if it was "Pro-Life" PR work? -NT- ruet Jun 19 #21
Contracts are contracts. Swallow your pride, do it, then talk about how against it you are AFTER the game AZLD4Candidate Jun 19 #22
It's all about the revenue though Polybius Jun 19 #15
If course. This is, after all, the United States of Extortion. SheltieLover Jun 19 #18
Employees need to do what they are told. MichMan Jun 18 #5
cancel the game, not the night amcgrath Jun 18 #6
Hire a band and have a concert instead of the game. Then bench the homophobic players on a rotating MLAA Jun 18 #11
That's what they did. Wiz Imp Jun 18 #12
The Baltimore Bigots? purr-rat beauty Jun 18 #10
Baltimore? It's York Pennsylvania. Wiz Imp Jun 19 #13
"...he was unable to talk players into wearing the rainbow sleeves." J_William_Ryan Jun 19 #14
Ironic to me that the team's name is the Revolution. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 19 #16
MAHA... Make America Hate Again QueerDuck Jun 19 #17
Too proud to show Pride. Too bigoted to show humanity. Change the name from Blue Crabs to "Crabby KKK". Wonder Why Jun 19 #19
Apparently it happened last year Shrek Jun 19 #23
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