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NFL players, coaches, owners lock arms, kneel during national anthem
ESPN ^ | Sept. 24, 2017 | ESPN

Posted on 09/24/2017 11:05:00 AM PDT by Innovative

NFL players across the league knelt, locked arms and even refused to come out of the locker room during the national anthem Sunday. They were joined by coaches and even owners.

It is believed to be in response to President Donald Trump's comments and tweets this week on protests during the anthem.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthem; disney; disrespect; nationalanthem; nfl; nfldroptheknee; searchworks; shutupandsing; trumpnfl; trumpnflboycott
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To: Seaplaner; workerbee; BobL; ncalburt; FreeReign

I’ve switched to your side on this issue... I’m just so sick of liberals crapping on everything we care about... but yes, we need to fight them on the issue.


61 posted on 09/24/2017 11:33:52 AM PDT by GOPJ ("$3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate criminal illegals.That's $1.2 Billion a year.")
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To: Innovative

All those black players are “owned” by the NFL team “Owners”...they are literally SLAVES!!!!

They should “run-away” to Canada using the underground network of “private jets” they can charter with their vast wealth!

It is the principle of the thing, they shouldn’t be slaves anymore!

Did slaves on cotton plantations just “Take a Knee” in the cotton field, NOPE, they fled to Canada!

All these cowardly chicken necked NFL slaves need to get in their fancy jets and fly to Canada for the winter football season!


62 posted on 09/24/2017 11:34:14 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Innovative

This fan walked when Colin Kaepernick started this nonsense & the NFL did nothing. Don’t miss the game at all now. Don’t even look to see how teams are doing. Zero involvement.


63 posted on 09/24/2017 11:34:43 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Innovative

Screw them.

Give them no more money.

No taxpayer supported stadiums.


64 posted on 09/24/2017 11:34:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Innovative

I remember football. That used to be a game I watched.


65 posted on 09/24/2017 11:36:15 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Innovative

America has millions of these filthy communists. The communists Democratic machine has been training them for years.


66 posted on 09/24/2017 11:36:15 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Innovative

Use your internet smarts, find the head of marketing for some of the major NFL advertisers. Send that person a written letter.

Go after some of the smaller companies first. They are going to be more sensitive to criticism and the fear of loss of business.


67 posted on 09/24/2017 11:36:54 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Innovative

Alienating half your customer base is an excellent business plan.


68 posted on 09/24/2017 11:37:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: GOPJ

To stop playing the National Anthem would be to WIMP OUT and to abandon the field to BLM; a piece of Americana gone, which is the goal of all this.


69 posted on 09/24/2017 11:37:19 AM PDT by odawg
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To: thinden
Another solution would be like colleges have done at games l have attended recently: do the national anthem while the teams are still in their locker rooms before they come back on the field for kickoff.

That would work too... if the NFL was on the side of the fans - and NOT on the side of the protesters. Still, it's a good idea...

70 posted on 09/24/2017 11:38:30 AM PDT by GOPJ ("$3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate criminal illegals.That's $1.2 Billion a year.")
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To: GOPJ

“The easiest solution is to take away the song so they can’t piss on it...”

What’s the right solution?

Do you think it is the easy one?


71 posted on 09/24/2017 11:38:51 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot (Do Leftist/Liberals Really Believe That Dissent = Highest Form of Patriotism?)
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To: Innovative

The only thing that will mean anything to these owners, managers and players is a boycott. It’s all about the money. Until the money stops or decreases significantly they could give a damn about what everyday Americans think about their unpatriotic and childish behavior. Unfortunately too may Americans can’t be bothered by standing up for the country in even this matter by not watching or attending any NFL (or NBA or MLB games if they continue on their current track). Seems the only ones who stand and fight are the leftists and libs. I’ve quit watching any NFL games and won’t buy any NFL items. Again, that is the only thing they understand


72 posted on 09/24/2017 11:39:37 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: Innovative

Time for Trump and Sessions to lock arms and start anti-trust litigation.


73 posted on 09/24/2017 11:40:57 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Innovative

Time for Trump and Sessions to lock arms and start anti-trust litigation.


74 posted on 09/24/2017 11:40:58 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: GOPJ

GOPJ, next the flag will not be allowed to be displayed at any public venue, not at government buildings, not at schools, and not at the VFW hall.

Then no Veterans Day, Fourth of July, racist, it supports the Independence of only those privileged old white men who penned the DOI and Constitution.

The end goal is the complete transformation of the USA. It will not bode well for anyone that is Freeper or Freeperlike.

We must fight these ingrates and traitors at every turn.


75 posted on 09/24/2017 11:41:28 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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To: gaijin

If 3 years ago you combined ALL the NFL franchises, their value together was $63 billion.

And ONE solitary, spoiled mulatto brat raised by whites started the destruction of ALL that wealth and culture.

WHAT the hell is it with blacks raised by whites....???

I think they reach and age where they suddenly really, REALLY are made to fit in with their own and in order to do that they “have to MAKE THEIR BONES”.

They have to DO something that demonstrates their total committment to that.

That’s the only simple way I can explain Obama and Kaepernick.

Oh, and both these guys got involved with super angry black women.


76 posted on 09/24/2017 11:41:33 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Innovative

The missing link = NFL players.


77 posted on 09/24/2017 11:41:37 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Innovative

What if they had a Super Bowl and nobody cared?


78 posted on 09/24/2017 11:42:59 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Innovative

Time to boycott and show these rich, arrogant owners and players that they need us or they face hard times. This will send a message to any city planning on fleecing its’ taxpayers to build a stadium that it is not needed in these times.

Could it be that the thing BLM will be best remembered for is the destruction of the NFL?


79 posted on 09/24/2017 11:43:06 AM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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To: Innovative
NFL players across the league knelt, locked arms and even refused to come out of the locker room during the national anthem Sunday. They were joined by coaches and even owners.

Uh huh...because that's working so well for Kaepernick? I reckon we'll find out.

AC/DC asked:

"Who made who, who made you?
Who made who, ain't nobody told you?"
Those are good questions for people in the entertainment industries to ponder for a moment before giving up their answers.

All people are full of farts and opinions and no one is asking the NFL to share either one of theirs.

Butt...since the NFL insists on sharing both, now the silent majority will ask the NFL:

"Who made you? Who made you? Who pays who?"
I think I already know, but I look forward to learning their answers!
80 posted on 09/24/2017 11:43:22 AM PDT by GBA (A = 432)
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