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Thanks for sharing your opinion.

If you'd like to lead a boycott, I encourage you to go for it. You don't need me to agree with your approach. Just take the lead and do it.

The approach I chose to take was to gradually get the ball rolling with some emails to them informing them that we disapprove while being cordial enough to give them an opportunity to respond. If we get nasty (or no) responses, we can use these to get people on board with a boycott, and AT THAT TIME we can escalate our letters up to total boycotts (which could be only a couple of weeks from now). After all, it's not like they're going to quake in their boots over a twenty person boycott.

Anyway, I appoint you leader of the boycott effort. I won't watch any NFL this year just on general principle, so I'm in. What's next?

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I do appreciate anything that anyone is doing, because no steps taken are "bad". It's just a matter of degrees. That said, I can't even remember the last time I intentionally watched an NFL game in the first place. (not for activist reasons, I've just haven't been a football fan for about the last 20 years). 10 years in DC, the last 2 in Denver, and I've not gone to one game. Plenty of Rockies games, though. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Anyway, I'm nobody's boycott leader in this, since there's nothing for me to boycott, but I will follow this with interest.

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As far as "boycotts" go number of claimants and callers/writers is rarely a majority consumer of the product. Bad publicity and a small dip in sales can lead to firings or no bonuses. If we had a million poker players, and they all called in to say no Sunday TIcket, well I doubt they sell a million packages, but they will figure a % of us do. You don't have to like the NFL to be an effective part of a boycott if you are vocal. I wouldnt buy a Chevrolet, Ford, or Chrysler car with your money and a stolen tag, but I will call them on the phone and say I boycott you because you advertize in the NFL.