‘We’re not going to play politics’: Steelers’ Mike Tomlin says team won’t take the field for anthem

NFLonCBS ^ | 09/24/2017 | Jamie Erdahl

[Do the math]

The NFL is dead to me, I don’t need to watch football. I hope they go bankrupt.

[Delta 21]

Baby, oh BABY !! smokingfrog finds the needle in the haystack!

The reference I posted in #1 is bogus but this one isnt.
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Rule 5, Section 4:
ARTICLE 8. PERSONAL MESSAGES. Throughout the period on game-day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience...........

The League will not grant permission for any club or player to wear, display, or otherwise convey messages, through helmet decals, arm bands, jersey patches, or other items affixed to game uniforms or equipment, which relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns, or charitable causes or campaigns.

Page 23, 2017 OFFICIAL PLAYING RULES OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

I hope the NFL goes down in flames for trying to place themselves and their hoodlums above the flag of the United States.

[Vinnie]

Tomlin, you idiot. That’s exactly what you’re doing.

[bigbob]

Rush’s team.

[lodi90]

This nonsense won’t stop until the shoe is on the other foot and the America haters have to eat their peas. IF only we could take a knee for Americans killed by illegal aliens, aborted babies, etc.

[rod1]

The sun will come up tomorrow and lib democrats can take solace in the fact that NFL Political Sunday will be followed by...... Carlos Danger Monday.

[Wuli]

“‘We’re not going to play politics’: Steelers’ Mike Tomlin says team won’t take the field for anthem”

Does he truly think (by what imaginable rationale) that asking the whole team to not participate in the national anthem IS NOT “playing politics”???

Who does he think he is fooling???

[dila813]

wow, interesting

[Delta 21]

Ping to post #33 and #42.

[Finalapproach29er]

You just did.

They’re circling the wagons,aren’t they?

[caww]

They’re on company time and in theater.....whoever pays them makes the rules.... They don’t get to choose.

[Louis Foxwell]

The Trump troll train rolls on.

[longsufferingjetsfan]

Mean Joe Greene and Jack Lambert...where are you when we need you? Guarantee NONE OF THIS bs would fly under their watch.

[Lady Heron]

That choice was playing politics....globalist politics, trying to destroy people caring for their country so they can be enslaved under a global rule.

[Molon Labbie]

I view it simply. You either stand under the Stars and Stripes or you stand under the hammer and sickle.

[ConservaTeen]

Excuse me, Mr. Tomlin, but I know I’m a teen, but isn’t not being on the sidelines playing politics?

[M-cubed]

it all comes back to 2 or 3 versions of this story but the NFL rule reference it what got me. Is there such a thing?<<

I believe those rules are “Sealed”..for good reason of course..kinda a Union thing i think...../s

[Delta 21]

http://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/2017-nfl-rulebook/

The only one I could find with help from smokingfrog.

[NoCmpromiz]

There IS this story in the Washing comPost which says the same thing and cites the NFL manual...

‘We’re not going to play politics’: Steelers’ Mike Tomlin

[GailA]

Poll: 72 Percent See Kaepernick’s National Anthem Antics As ‘Unpatriotic’
http://www.townhallmail.com/cqprtsngrrjftgrgfgtpnfkllmfllgmnqqpsztjmqctjjd_ozttqkmmmql.html?a=&b=

NFL Broadcasting Stocks Slump As Protests Rise And TV Ratings Fall
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2017/09/23/nfl-broadcasting-stocks-slump-as-protests-rise-and-tv-ratings-slump/#64ff61ce4eec