well, you know, sag-aftra and the nflpa merged together in this wonderful effort to use our reach as influencers for the greater good. and the most imminent first mission was we all agreed, get everybody to vote, because the midterms were imminent. and we thought, what better way to leverage actors and athletes than to influence americans to realize that your voice is your vote. so get out and vote. antoine, same question, and where does this figure into, i mentioned it s civic. and yet we have seen sports leagues and many top folks in your league and your field also step up and be more directly political and policy civil rights oriented, whether that s of course a discussion about kneeling, about black lives matter, about all the ways people can lead, even though i
understand this to be an effort to get people to vote in general. your thoughts. yeah, you said it, man. it s about using your platform and using your platform the correct way. just speaking out on different topics. obviously, we re here today just talking about getting out and voting. and the nflpa and the players have been doing a great job about that. nfl teams opening up their facilities to help the communities in voting and getting to the polls. and tomorrow, while everybody is getting out to vote, all facilities will be closed to give the nfl players and their families opportunities to go out there and vote. so again, using our platform in the right way. great. and fran, i did want to ask you about, you re plenty outspoken. we got this tv doctor running. he s a real doctor, but he s known from tv. snl had a little fun about all this and oprah kind of coming back around on him. you know, oprah is pretty influential in many ways. here s how it played out on snl.
the new safety rules and they want them put into place immediately. they put out a statement last night saying our union has agreed to change the concussion protocols with regard to return of play in case of a similar incident to what we saw september 25th. that s the day tua tagovailoa stumbled getting up against the bills but still came into the game later on. the nflpa said they want that in place before the sunday games. as far as if that would happen, the spokesperson said they agree and have spoken about the changes that are likely coming. the u.s. women s national team, meanwhile, on the first pitch for the first time since an explosive report earlier this week revealing widespread abuse in the sport. american and english players coming together holding up a teal protect our players banner, an then they all took a knee together to show solidarity. 18,000-plus on hand watching the
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