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Thursday Night Football ratings won’t be easy to spin this week
With everyone paying attention to how the national anthem issue is affecting the NFL’s ratings, Thursday night’s Bears-Packers ratings will be closely monitored. It’s also a big increase over the 4.8 rating that last year’s Thursday night Week Four game received, although that game was only on NFL Network, not on CBS.
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Cam Newton: 'Legend' Colin Kaepernick sacrificed career for movement
Panthers quarterback Cam Newton hasn’t made himself an activist yet. After processing a weekend filled with players kneeling during the national anthem in response to criticism by President Donald Trump, Newton was moved by what he saw and where it came from. “My hat goes off to the Colin Kaepernicks of the world,” Newton said, via Jourdan Rodrigue of the Charlotte Observer.
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