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Joe. your reaction to the nfls rejection? >> good morning, brian, we were surprised and very disappointed. and we felt this was a strong form of corporate censorship. we didnt really know what to take of it at first. they came to us about a week and a half ago and asked us if we would be interested in placing this full paged a in the super bowl program. americanism program thought it would be a good concept to focus on. brian: the nba is running this at their all star game. >> nba, nhl and nasca...

Statement outlines the series of events that we did not experience. we were highly engaged with the advertising agency. the statement also does talk about the fact that there was an agency between us and the nfl. they are the ones who we communicated with. they are the ones ha came and pitched us for this ad. we met allth deadlines and we did respond to them at the end when we told them no, we would not change our message. that our messages and our values and we cant change our values. brian: i ...

We are also a diverse organization. we address these diversity issues and racial injustices and things like that. we address those through our organization as well. but, we try to do that the proper time and place and we wanted to make it clear that our organization feels that people should be standing for the national anthem. we just are simply asking them. we are not credit siding them if they choose not to. brian: i just hope they come back to you and give you the spot. joe chenelli thank you...