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NFL Lures Millions to TikTok Despite Rising Security, Privacy Concerns About the Chinese Platform

February 12, 2023February 12, 2023 Just the News

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles face off Sunday in the Super Bowl, but their competition extends beyond the gridiron to the social media stage, where the two teams are vying, along with the NFL’s other 30 franchises, for followers and engagement on TikTok, the controversial video-sharing app that reportedly has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Although spy balloons are currently dominating the headlines, the wildly popular TikTok appears to be China’s premier Trojan Horse.

Commentary: When It Comes to the Titans, It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist – Or Does It?

December 31, 2022 John Fredericks

After falling 27-13 to the Dallas Cowboys at home on Thursday night football, and extending their unprecedented end of season losing streak to six games, you’d think the Titans would be crying in their 7-9 beer.

So why the happy face?

John Fredericks Commentary: Godzilla Wins 2022 NFL Football Preview

August 21, 2022August 20, 2022 John Fredericks

Well here we are again! Welcome to the first NFL 2022 edition of GodzillaWins.com, our NFL football preview!

I don’t speak for Jack from Tunica and Nate from Reno, I’ll let them get crushed by me again this year – but as for Godzilla – I am poised for a record setting year!

John Fredericks NFL Picks: Titans Have to Prove They Are Not a Farce; Chiefs Against the Ropes

October 10, 2021October 9, 2021 John Fredericks

If you bet NFL football week in and week out, you understand why Vegas has billion-dollar hotels on the Strip. It’s a grind and the book always wins. So far this season we are 25-22 ATS, going 6-6 last week. Every week into the season gets a little easier, as teams are settling in. We have some surprises, and a lot of close games. Week five will be no different. I’m three games over .500 going into week five, and I’m looking for that break out week to blow away the field. This is it. I’ll go up big. I might run the table!

NFL Postpones Steelers-Titans After Two More Positive Tests

October 2, 2020October 1, 2020 The Associated Press

The NFL postponed Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers game at Tennessee until later in the season after one additional Titans player and one personnel member tested positive for COVID-19.

The announcement Thursday came one day after the league said it hoped to play the game on Monday or Tuesday. The NFL said a new game date would be announced “shortly.”

Outbreak in the NFL: Three Tennessee Titans Players, Five Personnel Test Positive for COVID-19

September 30, 2020September 29, 2020 The Associated Press

The Tennessee Titans suspended in-person activities through Friday after the NFL says three Titans players and five personnel tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first COVID-19 outbreak of the NFL season in Week 4.

The outbreak threatened to jeopardize the Titans’ game this weekend against the Pittsburgh Steelers and posed the first significant in-season test to the league’s coronavirus protocols.

Broncos Organization Says It Is Proud of Kneeling Players in Monday Night Football Game with Titans, Even as Viewership Plummets 38 Percent

September 16, 2020September 15, 2020 Jason M. Reynolds

More than 30 players from the Denver Broncos and Tennessee Titans knelt in protest during the national anthem prior to their Monday Night Football game, Breitbart reported.

Eighteen Broncos and 13 Titans took a knee and/or raised fists, the outlet said.

Tennessee Titans Quarterback Ryan Tannehill: ‘This Country Was Founded on Racist Ideas’

August 29, 2020August 28, 2020 Chris Butler

Tennessee Titans starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill this week said America was founded on racism, and he promptly demanded social change.

This, as he and his teammates announced on Twitter that the best way to take a stand was to not have practice that day.

Fans Blast Multi-Millionaire Tennessee Titan Who Promises to Protest During Anthem

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 John Bryant

If people thought the recent NFL rule change meant to stop player protests during the National Anthem, they were wrong, according to a new report which focuses on Tennessee Titans star defensive end Jurrell Casey.

Phil Bredesen Used Accounting Sleight of Hand to Lure NFL’s Houston Oilers at the Expense of Nashville’s Middle Class

June 17, 2018June 16, 2018 John Bryant

Former Gov. Phil Bredesen, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee, wants voters to believe that he is a pragmatic problem-solver with a track record of getting things done. But a closer look at that track record reveals that Bredesen “gets things done” through the use of…