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Chris Long on the new NFL anthem rules: ‘This is not patriotism’
Boston Globe ^ | May 24, 2018 | Mark Dunphy

Posted on 05/24/2018 3:32:27 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

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To: MeganC
The NFL is a multibillion dollar business that caters to people who are mostly pro-American, pro-military, pro-Trump, and it would look like the owners finally remembered this.

If the owners were guided by actual patriotism, I suppose that they would've acted differently last season.

21 posted on 05/24/2018 3:52:42 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And don’t forget

There was an election.

Or a hurricane...

Or people forgot who their favorite team was..

(OK, I made up that last one)


22 posted on 05/24/2018 3:53:41 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: MeganC

I think the ship has sailed. NFL just isn’t fun anymore.


23 posted on 05/24/2018 3:54:47 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
I just watched a local Pittsburgh PA news station and they interviewed a big black dude who is a Steelers player. Don't know his name but this guy could barley put a complete sentence together and was crying the blues about the locker room policy saying he was being bullied. The NFL will never be the same.
24 posted on 05/24/2018 3:58:25 PM PDT by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Can you believe this creep is the off-spring of Howie Long?

In one of his last games, I watched Howie damn near freeze to death in a game against Green Bay back in December of 1991. It was at least 10 below zero and Howie was still playing his guts out.

He needs to have "the talk" with his son.

25 posted on 05/24/2018 4:06:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Here’s a thought experiment: let’s imagine instead that some NFL player decided to exercise his 1st Amendment rights, and burned a flag on the field during the anthem.

It’s ridiculous to think the NFL can’t mandate player behavior. As usual, the Left has the intellectual clout of a rock.


26 posted on 05/24/2018 4:09:17 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: over3Owithabrain

Yep, I did not watch one game last year, looks like I won’t watch one this year. A 15-yard penalty? How about a 15-yard penalty for every play of the game after a kneeling incident?

The NFL would never go along, but a great new penalty would be that every kneeling player has to start every subsequent play of that game from the kneeling position.


27 posted on 05/24/2018 4:15:39 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Let them stand, kneel, crawl on their bellies or sit in lounge chairs. They should have the freedom to speak and behave as they choose.

And I can ignore them, not buy from their sponsors, and never watch a game all season.

It will all work itself out.


28 posted on 05/24/2018 4:17:13 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Can you believe this creep is the off-spring of Howie Long?"

He's a complete wigger.

29 posted on 05/24/2018 4:19:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Is this dufus the offspring of Howie Long?


30 posted on 05/24/2018 4:19:43 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: rfp1234

Yes, he is the son of Howie Long.


31 posted on 05/24/2018 4:21:49 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Dilbert San Diego

All BS excuses. College football viewership was way up last year.


32 posted on 05/24/2018 4:25:43 PM PDT by TarasBulbous
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Chris Long, spoiled brat offspring of a multimillionaire. Social justice posturing to be cool.


33 posted on 05/24/2018 4:34:26 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: airborne

Well said. Yes they have freedom of expression, and those of us who hold differing views, exercise our freedom to not patronize the business of NFL football. Everyone is exercising their rights .


34 posted on 05/24/2018 4:37:02 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He’s not like his father.


35 posted on 05/24/2018 4:37:38 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RedMonqey
It's from a Boston paper.

When he left town, he ceased to exist.

36 posted on 05/24/2018 4:40:54 PM PDT by x
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Retire, Chris.


37 posted on 05/24/2018 4:45:16 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Who knows! The NFL could go the way of “roller derby”.


38 posted on 05/24/2018 4:48:09 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Political Junkie Too

“Chris Long on the new NFL anthem rules: ‘This is not patriotism.”

Ole Chris ain’t that good. He should be careful or he will find himself spending weekends hanging with Kaepernick.


39 posted on 05/24/2018 4:52:34 PM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

none of you love america.


40 posted on 05/24/2018 4:54:11 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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