Posted on 09/10/2016 7:26:35 AM PDT by xzins
This is not over. Four Miami Dolphins refused to stand for the anthem today. It is already spreading to college and high school teams.
It’s over. Everybody on both sides was expecting massive protests and so far this week with all but 3 anthems in the books we’ve had five and there will be one more (assuming Colin sticks to his guns), so that’s a total of SIX. With a total roster size of the NFL of 1696 that’s basically none. This was the high water mark, it’ll shrink from here.
I don’t think STFU is the answer.
I think complaining is a better answer.
Saying nothing can be misinterpreted.
Except there was never a controversy until you guys started to complain. Nobody had noticed. It was a protest with no audience. There was nothing to misinterpret.
Too late. I have for a decade. When you start you will see a whole new world open to you, and you will never go back.
So complaining made them do it?
Complaining made them aware there was something to do. Until the complaints happened Colin was sitting during the anthem and nobody knew or cared that he was much less why he was. It was only when the social media storm happened that somebody asked Colin why he was sitting and suddenly it became a protest and others could join. If no complaints happen nobody asks Colin anything and there’s no protest to join.
It’s the tree in the forest situation. Colin was falling down but there was nobody to hear so functionally he was making no noise.
It’s disrespectful. That is why the complaining.
Why does it really matter if one random moron is disrespectful? Who really cares? Does it actually hurt the nation? Do you really think all the other players are standing there thinking patriotic thoughts? Or are most of them just going through the motions to get on with the game? Is just doing it because you’re supposed to disrespectful? How are you going to stop them? How much simpler would your life have been the last few weeks if you’d just said “yup Colin Kaepernick is an idiot” and moved on with your life?
Because I served with and buried soldiers.
Russell Wilson gives me hope. Outside the game, he is a stand up guy. If only there were more like him.
City Center,
I was an official of many sports at lower levels to include football, National Federation and NCAA, for many years. So in a very broad spectrum, it makes me a person who would believe in the purity of the game and not the politics of the players thoughts outside of it.
Sports are a perfect teaching tool, although being way to lucrative funds wise, for youth. What the professional level player does has been copied by kids for probably 100 years and more. The players need to be selective in how they present themselves to the public to protect the immature minds that are tasked with learning to be the best they can be.
What Kaepernick and other players did, to include the entire Sea Hawks team was horrible twofold. First of all, instead of using their notoriety to gain a foothold on improvement in the area of racial problems, by using such a lack of respect for the many that gave their all, is a shame on the person and the people they represent.
By telling me you a fan of Wilson makes me guess you are a Sea Hawks fan. Did you know that the actual city of Seattle is populated by just under 700K people? Did you know that 2.7M soldiers died in WWII alone? So by joining his team mates, Wilson used the respect of those millions of fighting people that were a major part of the growth of this great country, to cheapon it with a protest that until the talking happens and the facts come out, is nothing more than a publicity stunt. That’s all. These people can do what they want. But their little efforts will accomplish nothing except harm by their attack.
They need to grow up and use the proper channels to accomplish their goal. Not act like college children trying to get their 15 minutes of fame. They didn’t do anything to help their cause. But they did a lot of harm to it and their sport.
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