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Antonio Cromartie's wife claims his anthem boycott was why Colts cut him (Feel good story)
sports.yahoo.com ^ | 21 Oct 2016

Posted on 10/21/2016 12:06:19 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Antonio Cromartie's wife took to Instagram Tuesday to blast the Colts and claim that her husband's kneeling during the national anthem is the reason he was cut by the team.

““You are nothing more than an entertainer. Just shut up and do what we say. … One things for sure I know my husband was told Not to take a Knee and he went with his heart and he took one. And that cost him his Job ... and Clearly this Statement backs that up… Just Paid to put on a show,” Terricka Cason said in a since-deleted Instagram post (via the Indianapolis Star).

Cason's allegation refers to Colts owner Jim Irsay's comment earlier this week at the NFL owners meetings that games weren't the proper venue for protests that are responsible, in part, for the league's sagging TV ratings.

Cromartie and multiple NFL players have emulated 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racism and oppression in America.

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To: 11th_VA

He must be the Colt I saw and it disgusted me. Haven’t watched a game since.
He got canned? Good. Still not watching and haven’t missed it. Screw the NFL.
Mr. Crank


41 posted on 10/21/2016 12:48:04 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: 11th_VA

Actually, he got cut because he was the worst player on the worst defense in the league. The Sunday before he was cut he gave possibly the worst performance by a cornerback in the team’s entire history.


42 posted on 10/21/2016 12:48:36 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: lurk

“The NFL has hit a ratings iceberg.”
And like Pennys and Target, and all the other bold failures who thumb their noses at us, their attitude as they are shooting themselves in the foot over-and-over always seems to be: “Meh, who needs customers?”


43 posted on 10/21/2016 12:50:55 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
That’s right. Same for the rest of us. If I talk politics with customers and the company gets complaints, I get fired.

Same here. Seriously, why is this so hard for the NFL to understand? Just make a rule, no politicking on company time. First time you get a warning. Second time, a pink slip. End of ratings slide.

44 posted on 10/21/2016 12:52:24 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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To: 11th_VA

#BLM is a fascist organization.

Their agenda is extreme (almost wacky) socialist, playing into and supporting a very strong racial component. That is the definition of Fascism.

As a side note, they are not autonomous, nor are they grass-roots. They were funded by powerful donors from the start (Soros), and directed by Obama and his DOJ. They have recently received $100 million from the Ford Foundation and some other very statist, marxist-leftist organizations.

Any person who jumps on the coat-tails of their protests is in effect endorsing their fascist ideology. They deserve to be fired, shunned, and protested.


45 posted on 10/21/2016 12:52:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 11th_VA

she has been heard before about other stuff too if my memory serves me well.... the 9ers could use her in the stands.. they already got enuf knee down players. as for her hubby,, if life was fair, Bud Grant would have a Super Bowl Lombardi trophy. ;-)


46 posted on 10/21/2016 12:54:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: 11th_VA

If I used my employer’s workplace to advance a personal agenda I’d be out pretty quick. That’s not what I’m paid for.

Especially if my agenda is divisive and might have a propensity to turn off paying customers.

Should be pretty simple that even a football player could figure it out. What is surprising is that NFL owners are struggling with it.


47 posted on 10/21/2016 12:58:31 PM PDT by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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To: 11th_VA

Back in the day we Charger (ex) fans had a nickname for one of our cornerbacks Elvis Patterson. We called him “Toast” ‘cause he got burnt so often.

Mr. Cromartie was close to getting that name.


48 posted on 10/21/2016 1:02:58 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Batman11

I stopped reading as soon as I saw “Antonio Cromartie” and “wife of” in the same sentence. Who could possibly believe that b.s.


49 posted on 10/21/2016 1:08:04 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: 11th_VA

” Just paid to put on a show...”

That’s right, honey. And now you can protest to your heart’s delight.


50 posted on 10/21/2016 1:09:18 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: 11th_VA

As much as I like the Colts, it’s about damn time the “entertainers” started getting the ax for their unpatriotic gestures. I hope a lot more get fired, especially Kapernick.


51 posted on 10/21/2016 1:09:35 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Obama's legacy - Christianity outlawed, America shamed, morality destroyed. Need I say more?)
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To: rlmorel

sorry to not have you as a colts fan, but he was fired because he couldn’t stop a 2 year old on the football field


52 posted on 10/21/2016 1:10:13 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: 11th_VA

A very “heart warming” story.


53 posted on 10/21/2016 1:24:16 PM PDT by BobNative
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Actively disrespecting the flag, the anthem, and the country should not be tolerated in any work place in the USA. Move to Iran or Raqqa and become a hero. Bratty millionaires should ‘act’ like black lives matter if they believe that false narrative.


54 posted on 10/21/2016 1:28:46 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: 11th_VA

Well imagine that?


55 posted on 10/21/2016 1:33:09 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 11th_VA; All

Anyone catch the remarks during last Thurs night’s game between the Colts and Texans, where just after the singing of the National Anthem, one of the TV commentators, following a zoom-in on Colts receiver (Dwayne Allen?) kneeling, says words to the effect, “Well, it looks like there’s only one protester today”. Then, about 15 or so mins later they come back to say the player said he wasn’t protesting anything. He was simply doing what he always does following the playing of our National Anthem... saying a prayer.


56 posted on 10/21/2016 1:39:05 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: 11th_VA

If that’s the only reason he should get hired by some other team quickly.


57 posted on 10/21/2016 1:40:45 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: TnTnTn
Actively disrespecting the flag, the anthem, and the country should not be tolerated in any work place in the USA. Move to Iran or Raqqa and become a hero. Bratty millionaires should ‘act’ like black lives matter if they believe that false narrative.

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Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, since dating activist DJ

August 30, 2016
FoxNews.com

'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.

Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.

But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]

During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

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"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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Now contrast that jerk with the young Miami Marlins pitcher who was killed a few weeks ago in a boating accident...

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Jose Fernandez -the NL Rookie of the Year in 2013 - came to the United States by boat as a 15-year-old Cuban refugee in 2008. Along the way, he rescued his mother, who had fallen overboard.

However, his beloved grandmother, who Fernandez calls a “baseball freak,” was left behind.

“She’s the love of my life... my everything,” Fernandez said.

The day before winning the Rookie of the Year Award, a shocked Fernandez was reunited with his grandmother in Florida with help from Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-mlb-star-jose-fernandez-reunited-with-grandmother-for-first-time-since-defecting-from-cuba/
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58 posted on 10/21/2016 1:43:49 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: 11th_VA
From the article...Just Paid to put on a show

Uhhh.. yeah... Unless your husband is performing brain surgery at halftime, he's getting paid to put on a show.

59 posted on 10/21/2016 1:47:44 PM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: 11th_VA

More of us than there are of them...a lot more

#BoycottNFL

#Boycott49ers


60 posted on 10/21/2016 2:14:57 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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