Could this be the genesis of Trump's beef with the NFL?

[hexola]

I know he has other issues with the NFL - but this is a bit more recent - and more importantly - OBAMA related!!!

This is from 2011 - gives you a sense the NFL knew the good old boy image they were using the promote the NFL was getting old.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d822cec71/article/williams-mnf-opening-pulled-after-singers-hitler-reference

ESPN issued a statement announcing its decision to pull Williams' intro off the air after the country music star's controversial comments Monday morning on the Fox News program "Fox & Friends".

In a political discussion, Williams voluntarily brought up President Barack Obama's golf game with Speaker of the House John Boehner during this summer's debt ceiling negotiations, calling it "one of the biggest political mistakes ever" and invoking Adolf Hitler.

"That would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu," Williams said, via the Huffington Post. "Not hardly. In the shape this country is in?"

When asked to explain his analogy, Williams called Obama and Vice President Joe Biden "the enemy."

[Dave Starsky]

1. No. It definitely goes back to the 1980s.

When he wanted the NFL to pick up his USFL team, and they told him to pound sand. He was roundly ridiculed for that.

He holds grudges eternally. He is a petulant child.

[mountain grammy]

2. Was, is, and always has been a moron..

[Ohiya]

6. trump or HW Jr.?

BOTH!

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. No, it goes back to 1984:

http://fortune.com/2017/09/24/donald-trump-nfl-usfl/

[hexola]

4. Disregarding the other older issues...! This was the NFL protecting Obama...

...in Trumps mind.

This is a bit of foreshadowing of the idea that the NFL was having growing race relation concerns.

This seems like the germ that Trump has latched onto and has been exploiting.

I get that he already had a grudge.

[Trust Buster]

5. Why do you people still not understand what makes this carnival barker tick ?

His attacks on the NFL DOES NOT GO BACK TO ANYTHING !!!!! Like everything else he does. Don the Con knows that attacking wealthy black athletes serves as red meat to his base. THERE IS NO OTHER REASON. P.S.: on July 31, Don the Con claimed at a rally down south that he won the “war on Christmas”. HINT: That doesn’t go back to anything either. Just red meat for his emotionally challenged base.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. And mentally challenged...nt