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THE following Statement was issued on Friday by Tom Parsons, CEO of the Gaelic Players Association in respect of their Annual Report 2022 GPA'
Things, when i heard about this yesterday, two things came to mind the first was this is a shot at labor to see if the nfl players are unified and to find out how much they are willing to fight for these things they say they believe in. it's also a shot at the black consumer and the message being sent is, watch our game. spend on our game and keep your mouths shut. so we're going to find out just how much, how offended the black consumer is and what they're willing to do as well. >> the other thing i think there is a fear of that people are sort of social justice warriors watching here is this...
How are they going -- can player unity overcome racial dissparity? >> this is the area, chuck, where the nfl players association has amazing opportunity. they've got an opportunity to get those players together and say, look, we don't care about your politics here, we already have concurrent collusion lawsuits that the nfl owners are telling you, we will deny your employment. we are going to humiliate you. if you guys don't come towing. we don't care about your politics. when it comes to messing with us, we stick together. we'll see what they do about that. >> it seems like the chris longs of ...
And what they are willing to do as with he will. >> the other thing i think there is a fear of that people -- social justice watchers is concern that if you have a choice about standing for the flag and suddenly there is a color disparity and the white players are out and the black players are in the locker room -- look, white players are going to have to be a buffer here i guess between owners and african-american players. what's your sense of that? how are they dg -- can player unity overcome racial disparity? >> this is the area, chuck, where the nfl players association has an amazing oppor...