{"id":75444,"date":"2020-09-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75444"},"modified":"2020-09-27T19:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T00:44:56","slug":"the-customer-is-always-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75444","title":{"rendered":"The Customer Is Always Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chiefs-texans-fans-booing-nfl-opener-moment-silence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fans booed the players<\/a>\u00a0in the Kansas City &#8211; Texas NFL game [a week or so back &#8211; Ed].\u00a0 Players, announcers, coaches and owners insist the fans are wrong.\u00a0 No live anthem, anti-racism messages on the scoreboard, players kneeling instead of standing for the flag, banning fans from cheering with the tomahawk chop and war paint, NFL allowing &#8220;victim&#8221; names on helmets . . . it&#8217;s all justified and necessary and the fans should just get over it.<\/p><p>The NFL is already worried about losing billions of dollars if the fans can&#8217;t attend because of Covid.\u00a0 But what happens if the fans won&#8217;t attend because they&#8217;re insulted?<\/p><p>What&#8217;s that saying again?\u00a0 The customer is always . . . racist?\u00a0 The customer is always . . . wrong?\u00a0 The customer is always . . . it&#8217;ll come to me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s on the tip of my tongue.\u00a0 Gimme a minute.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The customer, whatever their politics, is always conservative &#8211; at least when it comes to spending their entertainment dollar.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which the NFL is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, used to be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans booed the players\u00a0in the Kansas City &#8211; Texas NFL game [a week or so back &#8211; Ed].\u00a0 Players, announcers, coaches and owners insist the fans are wrong.\u00a0 No live anthem, anti-racism messages on the scoreboard, players kneeling instead of standing for the flag, banning fans from cheering with the tomahawk chop and war paint, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75449,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444\/revisions\/75449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}