Posted on 09/25/2017 11:32:30 AM PDT by samtheman
I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
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NFL, corporations, and advertisers capitulate to the left because they are afraid of the consequences up to and including violence, and they know that the right is not violent.
#BoycottNFLAdvertisers #BoycottTheNFL #BoycottNFLSponsors #KickThemInTheWallet
Commissioner,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.
I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.
Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this! You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this. Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.
What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly?
I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?
Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!
You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines. I applaud those who have not.
Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles.
They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it 24/7 often with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.
Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!
Time to change the channel.
God bless the Marines!
Watching the NFL’s response, I can tell they are not what I thought.
I believe Goodell is an elitist suck-up. He’s a politician who has to work among 32 billionaire egos. He has risen through the system of crony-capitalism, government favors, monopoly enterprise, and the corporate, mainstream media.
His views are fully in line with the statist, leftist, crony-capitalist elite. He wants the rednecks in flyover country to keep paying their money to the NFL, but he doesn’t like them - or understand them.
Kneeling doesn’t help anyone.
The NFL should donate all of this year’s tv revenues to the NAACP.
In a show of solidarity, the tv networks should match the donation.
Money talks, bullshit kneels.
Thank you.
Thanks. You posted a great letter.
“Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles.”
And they don’t wear funny costumes while chasing balls.
But they dismissed him as a kook, someone at the fringes of society.
We will show them the error of their thinking!
The Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio
March 31, 1863
LET US LOVE OUR FLAG.
As I sat by the bed of a sick soldier, I saw on his arm what appeared to me to be our national flag. "You have the American flag on your arm?" I said to him, inquiringly.
"Yes, ma'am," he replied, and began to pull up his shirt sleeve that I might see it more distinctly. "That was put in when I was nine years old; I fainted several times while it was being done, but I would have it there."
I looked at his arm. There was the Goddess of Liberty, bearing in her hand our Star Spangled Banner. The red stripes had been put on in vermillion.
"That is a mark the rebels would not like," I remarked to him.
"I always supposed if I should be taken prisoner I should be murdered, because of this mark, but I was determined to fight for the flag that protected me. It protected me when I came to this country seven years old, and under it I have had my living ever since. I want to die under its folds."
"You die for your country just as truly as if you died on the battlefield, and I thank you for what you have done for us," I said to the poor fellow who was suffering from heart disease and dropsy, and who is liable every moment to be taken from this fighting world.
"Do you ever regret that you volunteered? "
"Never. I have done what I could, and am willing to die in this way."
The young Irishman seemed to have a true attachment to the flag of his adopted country. He has given his life for it. How is it with ourselves? Do we really love it and prize it as we should? Is it the symbol of progress, of political and religious freedom? We should cherish it as we cherish God's best gifts to us, and we should be willing if need be, to die for it. We must teach our children to love it, to consider its safety superior to their own, and to be willing to make any sacrifice which it requires. We must pray for it and teach our children to pray for it. Let us not be too much tried by the self denials and privations that war is bringing upon us. Let us bear it nobly and uncomplainingly with hearts full of steadfast faith and trust in God, and let us grow strong in patriotism as were our grandmothers before us. They left us a precious legacy. Shall we leave one of less value to our children?
I predict the NFL's cooler minds and the urging of its PR arm will take measures in that direction. Not so sure about the networks; and, in any event, there will be a political flavor attached.
I posted it to my facebook page. I hardly ever log in there but i’ll make time to post articles that really matter. I really dont care what my liberal facebook friends think. They can unfriend me for all i care. I dont need any friends who hate america!
And because more and more CEOs are crony communists.
Never forget that communists love money more than any capitalist.
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