For $2k or so you can get the same number of people on their knees in any brothel (I assume) - without our country being insulted - and get it from people who are more civilized and a lot closer to law-abiding.
Posted on 09/27/2017 4:49:34 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
Well done!! I thoroughly enjoyed all your bullet points. I could probably add several myself, but in particular — How about the cosmic irony of multi-millionaires who wear a uniform that claim to be oppressed not by their multi-billionaire owners, but by others guys in uniforms who make about $30k (average for a soldier) to $60k (average for police officer) per year...
I’ll share a personal random thought I have been thinking about this week. I had the good fortune to serve on a burial detail my last few months on active duty in the Army (although to be honest I probably didn’t truly appreciate at the time). I was stationed at Ft. Bragg and the team I was on would provide military honors to veterans who died within a given radius of the post. As a young sergeant, I was in charge of the pall bearer team. We spent hours in the hot NC sun practicing how to carry the casket in unison and how to fold the flag over the casket. During actual funerals, I had two primary jobs: to inspect the placement of military awards on body of the deceased (most local funeral directors were not up to speed on the proper placement/order of medals) and then to call cadence for the pall bearers carrying the casket and if needed, hand the folded flag to the ranking officer (or ranking NCO) with us. This person would then present the flag to the next of kin. Thankfully, I never had to present the folded flag myself; not sure I could have gotten through it as these ceremonies tended to be pretty moving. But I had to learn what to say in case I had to do it and I have such vivid memories of hearing the officer in charge whisper the words to the veteran’s loved ones, “on behalf of a grateful nation...”
I am so saddened that those that have been so very, very blessed appear to be so very, very ungrateful for those who sacrificed so very, very much so they could play a game they presumably love.
This is why I am not watching the NFL anymore. God Bless.
Excellent, excellent work. Rest assured: The economic fall out from the boycott of the NFL and its sponsors will be largely ignored and under reported. The boycott of Target Corporation was claimed to be insignificant or treated as nonexistent even as the company’s stock price fell and store traffic visibly declined in the wake of the transgender bathroom fiasco.
Bread and circus may be what’s kept us from revolt. If they take away the big top....what may come?
I guess ticket sales, jersey sales, licensing fees, and team and stadium related business. Lose goodwill though and all this potentially decreases.
The owners are in a real bind - between the rock of a largely conservative customer (fan) base and the hard place of a now-radicalized, largely black workforce. The owners’ actions last weekend showed which one they fear more. The coming weeks and years will reveal if they chose unwisely. Although I have to believe that at least a few of the more intelligent ones had an inkling of the depth of their dilemma as soon as they read DJT’s comments. I did, and I ain’t that smart.
They don’t care.
“These national anthem protestors just don’t get it at all.”
No, they don’t, they don’t have a clue, and were you to shove a microphone in any one of their faces and ask, “What exactly are you protesting, can you provide evidence of what you assert, and what good has come of your protest?”, there’d be a lot of “Umm” and dead air...
All I see is my father, who passed away in 2002, served 4 years in the USAF as a fighter pilot and 27 years in the MDANG, retiring as a full bird...and his father who was a Captain in the Army Air Corp in WWII flying reconnaissance in the South Pacific...and my great-great grandfather who served in the 91st PA Volunteers, mustered in before the Battle of Manassas, was shot through the neck at two days before the battle of Spotsylvania, recovered, was at Appomattox and mustered out in July 1865...and my son now who serves in the MDANG as a 35G...
They don’t get it, they say they are protesting, “Inequality”, no, they are putting their middle fingers right up in the faces of those that pay their way...many have fought and died for their right to protest, and I support their right to protest, but just because you have a First Amendment right to speech does not mean that speech is not without consequence...have a good day, NFL, best of luck to you...
“Quite a few people of less than discerning intellect have been persuaded by sheer repetition that America is evil and must be punished, and the peer pressure brought on by others of even less discerning intellect in the popular media has persuaded them into an act of unreasoning vanity.”
Bingo...well put...
Thank you for your service...I did see a meme, a photo of an officer presenting a flag to a crying woman, the caption said, “Those who kneel before the flag have never been presented with a folded flag”...
For a true Packers fan, ARodg can do no wrong - he is, after all the best quarterback ever ( although a true Packers fan would also be correct in identifying Brett Favre as the best quarterback ever). And yet even he has managed to anger a large part of his fan base with his stupid actions on the field and his idiotic statements off the field. The word fan is short for fanatic, and that most surely describes the cheese heads who love their team. So it will be real interesting to see what happens tomorrow night.
A whole lot of football fans that basically could care less about politics, are being woke up with a splash of cold water in their face. Perhaps they will start becoming more concerned.
“avoid acting white and making good grenades”
interesting choice of words.
For $2k or so you can get the same number of people on their knees in any brothel (I assume) - without our country being insulted - and get it from people who are more civilized and a lot closer to law-abiding.
avoid acting white and making good grenades”
interesting choice of words.
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Apparently, “grades” is too uncommon for Google when talking about blacks and good grades...I’d say that proves liberal racism...ha ha...
I dunno... I've read that some black players have taken to making the raised fist "black power" "salute" whenever they tackle a white opponent.
Is that racist?
This protest is and always was about hatred against “whitey”, period, end of story.
Well said. Thank you. We turned the NFL off last Sunday and will continue NOT to watch. I love football, but they will probably never get me back.
Thank you! :-)
Thanks for a very touching story there, Juan. And thanks for the kudos!
Thank you, Atticus!
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