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Republican respondents. 45%, nearly half of those polled that identify as republicans, say the league is doing too much to show respect for black players. >> look at that. hold that up on the screen for a second. dave, i would love to say it was just one poll, but as we look at this graphic on the screen i can tell you that during the 2020 campaign i would call people running the democratic party and the republican party and i would say, "well, what are the issues, give me your top three issues....

"the nation" dave cyron." author of "the kaepernick book." >> great to have you with us. jonathan lemire, everybody i knew were rooting for the underdogs, rooting for the bengals, just a success story. you know, they did very well for three quarters. they hung tough, and just at the end once again had their hearts broken like they have before, like, you know, montana did to em and now it is stafford and kupp. >> yeah. the bengals never won a super bowl championship. i was rooting for them as wel...

Equal as an owner. we have to break through that. particularly again, i keep emphasizing, since we are paying for it with tax dollars. >> yeah. dave, people look at big contracts here, big contracts there, but your nfl -- not for long -- really struck me. i will be really blunt. i over the past several years have been watching the nfl less and less because at times i think, wait a second, im not even letting my -- i grew up playing football. i started when i was 9. i played in my brothers league...

The pre and post beckham getting hurt. 58 minutes in, third down and gold, the cincinnati bengals were called with a rather phantom holding call that led to a first down inside the far yard line by the l.a. rams. just a brutal way to lose a game at that point. absolutely brutal. i understand why the bengals fans this morning are a little more than sore about what went down, but at the same time it was hollywood. it was the los angeles rams winning in los angeles with all of l.a. there to see it....

Point, rev, that some on the right are saying the nfl is doing too much for black athletes and for the black cause and, dave, to follow up on your suggestion that the nfl is sort of -- theyre caught here, trying to be all things to all people. they seem to be failing on both sides. they saw an "l.a. times" article that actually jumped out at me, mika, because of what i had heard from republican pollsters in the 2020 campaign. >> well, amid a cloud of controversy over how the nfl handles the hiri...

This position where theyre facing this lawsuit by brian flores about hiring practices and about how things happen behind closed doors in the national football league. so right now theyre in a position where theyre both trying to be everything to everybody while at the same time trying to not push away a young audience that is more demographically diverse and less tolerant of intolerance than any generation in the history of the united states while at the same time trying not to lose their, for l...

Aimed squarely at gen x, a game we will remember going forward. >> yeah. dave, this isnt a team that actually played well under pressure down the stretch. they were ahead 17-0 against the niners last game of the season. the niners blew past them to get into the playoffs. they were ahead of brady, 21-3. almost blew that. that game had to go into overtime as well. this game, stafford and the rams came through in the fourth quarter like champions do. >> came through with a ten-play drive i think we...

Nfl was trying to put out, and yet they have one black nfl football coach. of course, no black owners. you just sat there going, man, there is a real dissonance here that even a halftime show cant clean up. >> dave described it, yeah. >> no, and i enjoyed the halftime show. most of the acts i know well for years, mary j. and snoop and all. but it really at some level is a picture of where we are with the nfl. we can entertain people but we cannot do business with them. were not owners. we only h...