Posted on 06/15/2017 10:16:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The ESPN personality then argued that Kaepernick did not inject politics into the NFL, but rather the NFL injects politics by playing the national anthem and “putting pressure” on people to stand.
Partial transcript as follows:
They both were asked to do things that went against their conscience. In this country, in the United States of America, you don’t have to do that. We are free to make our own choices. And if our conscience is bothering us, we can follow that.
In Muhammad Ali’s case, he was asked to take a step forward and become a part of the Vietnam War, and he was against it on religious and moral and ethical principles, and he refused to take the step and he faced five years jail time but was ultimately vindicated in a Supreme Court case. OK, but he did have his prime stripped, his license revoked and he couldn’t earn a living for four years, all that.
Colin Kaepernick also did not go looking for a protest. It came to him. He was asked to stand for the national anthem. You do not have to stand for the national anthem. And even if it it was a rule that you did, is that Colin Kaepernick injecting politics in the NFL? No. That’s the NFL injecting politics by playing the national anthem and putting pressure on you to stand for it in the first place.
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Anybody who wants to know the real answer he is out of a job, read:
https://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/06/07/colin-kaepernick-backup-quarterbacks
The 15 Backup Quarterbacks Better Than Colin Kaepernick
He won’t stay in the pocket...the minute he feels pressure, he takes off like a scared chicken. If you don’t stay in the pocket, you can’t go through your receiver progressions. And the few times he does stay in the pocket, he can’t read the defense. People always use his low interception rate, but it’s low because he always takes off. He nevers stays in a throwing stance for more than a second, then he pulls the ball down and starts dancing.
He is not a starting NFL QB and he’s too crazy after the snap to run any set plays,so the whole game plan goes out the window. Coaches want a backup that can run the same offense that the starting QB runs and he is incapable of doing that.
And with all that, you have to worry about him tearing apart the locker room. If the Seahawks didn’t want him, and they have a very mobile starting QB in Wilson, why would you expect any other team to want him.
His career is over in the NFL...let him go play in Mexico!!!
That’s quite a fair argument. National anthems and the direct participation of the military are quintessentially acts of a political nature.
I say, feel free to reconstitute and fully privatize the organization; removing the word “National” from their name, and eschewing all public funds. I don't think anyone will be happy with the result (except non-football-loving taxpayers). But hey, the resulting companies will be free to politicize or not politicize things with only the owners, boards & shareholders to be accountable to.
White male personalities at ESPN realize they must virtue signal or they will lose their job.
This is the same A** Clown who basically called Ray Lewis and Jim Brown Uncle Tom’s for meeting with DJT after the election.
“But there is nothing in the world like hearing that song, with the wind snapping the flag, and the sun shining down on your face on a nice October afternoon. Its almost a religious experience.”
And a couple of F16’s buzzing the stadium.
ESPN’s Kellerman: NFL Is ‘Injecting Politics’ by Playing the National Anthem at Games
Unmitigated BS from a brainless, pinko fool.
Showing respect for one’s country is not a political act. At least, it never was in a country where people from both political parties equally loved the US.
Only in a country where a huge portion of the population does not love the country and refuses to show respect for it could the playing of the national anthem be considered a political act.
If that’s the country leftists like you have created, it’s more important that ever to play the anthem every opportunity there is, in order to, if for no other reason, identify potential enemies of the state.
Do you understand that this claim stands in direct contradiction to the definition of the word "political"? It's mind blowing that someone would seriously assert otherwise. Just because you like it doesn't mean it isn't political. Of course it is. Anything concerning government is absolutely, inherently political.
If you can't see this then you've gone down the liberal rabbit hole of redefining common English words so as to completely change their meaning.
I’ve seen A-10s and C-130s buzz a stadium. They dont let many folks play with F16s in my neck of the woods.
The national anthem is now political? Those who object to it on those grounds are free to go elsewhere, and stay there!
Screenshot of segment shows clear sponsorship of this opinion by Bass Pro Shops.
The NFL is honoring tradition and being respectful to the people of this country. By whining about it ESPN is injecting politics.
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