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Cowboys Owner Makes an Anthem Stand: ‘If We Are Disrespecting the Flag, Then We Won’t Play. Period’
Breitbart ^ | 8 Oct 2017 | Dylan Gwinn

Posted on 10/08/2017 7:54:08 PM PDT by conservative98

Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones has had it with anthem protests. Just how tired of it is he? Tired enough that Jones has now publicly said that if his team doesn’t respect the flag, they’re not going to play.

Jones was asked by Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News, about two Cowboys players who raised their fists at the end of the anthem. Jones said he did not see the raised fists. But then, Jones made a definitive statement about how he wants to see his team to handle the anthem from now on.

According to Pro Football Talk, Jones said, “If there’s anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play. OK? Understand? If we are disrespecting the flag, then we won’t play. Period. Period.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cowboys; dallas; dallascowboys; flag; jones; nationalanthem; nfhell; nfl; nofansleft; pence; sports; takeaknee; trump; twofacejones
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To: fortheDeclaration

No. The agreement says the networks will pay X-dollars to the NFL regardless. I believe Forbes had an article on this because of stock drops for parent companies for the networks that broadcast NFL games.


141 posted on 10/09/2017 7:16:05 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: conservative98

The Dallas Cowards kneeled before the National Anthem with locked arms but stood just before it played. Trying to have it both ways and appease the BLM supporters on the team. Very cowardly in my opinion.

I never considered the Dallas Cowboys to be “America’s Team”, that is offensive to the fans of the other 31 teams out there. Ironically, they could have been truly “America’s Team” on Monday night 1 1/2 weeks ago had they all stood at attention for the National Anthem, with right hands over their hearts, left hands holding their helmets, and singing.

They blew it and there is the image Jerry Jones locking arms and kneeling with clenched fists and a smug look of misplaced defiance on his face.

The NFL has been exposed as supporters of BLM which is nothing more than a police-hating terrorist group.

These players are a bunch of multimillionaire brats who have no clue and 99.9% of them never served in the military.

I predict this will end badly for them. The average freedom-loving American will tune them out and won’t put up with this crap.


142 posted on 10/09/2017 7:43:21 AM PDT by Lions Gate
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To: conservative98

Jerry Jones, the Dumbass CowGIRLS, and the entirety of the National Felonious Losers cartel, can all go piss up a rope - and then hang themselves with it.

The NFL is just one big sack of putrefied dung. Maybe the owners should have been more circumspect of who they chose for players - particularly when it comes to the black race.

Blacks make up only 13% of our population, yet are responsible for 55% of the violent crime in our nation. These BLM-worshiping a-holes within the NFL ranks celebrate this fact every time they “take a knee” - a phony “protest” that is based entirely on a discredited narrative about “police brutality” against “innocent” blacks. Truly pathetic are these dopes, when the actual stats prove that most of the brutality in our society emanates from and within the black population, whose propensity for violent criminal behavior knows no end - and is never addressed.

Funny how the blacks on the NFL roster don’t seem to mind nor protest the ongoing black-on-black slaughter that is being committed in all those Democrat-controlled cities, which have been under such governance for generations.

Funny too, how these “oppressed” black players don’t seem to give a rat’s tail about the millions of unborn black children murdered by their own mothers, year after year.

And it’s really peculiar how these “concerned” blacks don’t protest and condemn the black hip-hop culture, which continually glorifies rape, murder, drug use, prostitution, and various other violent criminal activities - but I guess “birds of a feather ...”

The true violence that the NFL’s black players fail to protest says more about them than their asinine “taking the knee” BS implies about the so-called racists of “white privilege” America. The only “racists” and “privileged” I see are the BLM-inspired, Soros-funded, Obama-directed tools of the NFL.


143 posted on 10/09/2017 7:43:51 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: fortheDeclaration
From the following Forbes article:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3588751/posts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2017/09/23/nfl-broadcasting-stocks-slump-as-protests-rise-and-tv-ratings-slump/#2a3888954eec

... The networks will pay over $5 billion this season to televise the NFL and were already facing unflattering margins on advertising profits. ...

Forbes says otherwise...

However, the NFL has dealt in bad faith by not enforcing their own rules which has created this situation.

With this, the networks (parent companies) could file a 'BREACH of CONTRACT' lawsuit against the NFL...

144 posted on 10/09/2017 7:51:15 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: aquila48

Advertisers are probably starting to make noise. Instead of Budweiser, many microbreweries need support. Small American Businesses.


145 posted on 10/09/2017 7:55:48 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: dfwgator

Agree


146 posted on 10/09/2017 8:06:05 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: gaijin

A complete hypocrite!!


147 posted on 10/09/2017 8:06:56 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: conservative98

Oh, can the fakery, Jones!! You “took a knee” with your fellow degenerate hoodlums showing solidarity with their America hating ideology, even if you just missed doing so during the Anthem by a few seconds.

And “locking arms” during the National Anthem was still rebellion.


148 posted on 10/09/2017 8:10:33 AM PDT by fwdude (The perverted left-bound train is always accusing the train station of "moving right.")
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To: conservative98

He was kneeling with them last week. He doesn’t respect the country as much as he respects the money.


149 posted on 10/09/2017 8:14:42 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: gaijin

“Freaking LIAR”

This pic you posted was my first thought when I clicked on this thread. Well done.


150 posted on 10/09/2017 8:15:34 AM PDT by upbeat5
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To: conservative98

I think he realizes now that kneeling a few weeks ago only emboldened the fake protesters..he legitimized the protest....huge mistake on his part.
Listened to the wrong people


151 posted on 10/09/2017 8:15:48 AM PDT by SPRINK
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To: conservative98

I don’t believe anything he says. I’ll wait to see what he does.


152 posted on 10/09/2017 8:19:52 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: conservative98

BFD
Jerry lets his spoiled brats link arms during the anthem rather than putting their right hands over their hearts, as required by law and custom.


153 posted on 10/09/2017 8:43:54 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: LouAvul

Yeah, except that the previous “statements” never actually occurred.


154 posted on 10/09/2017 10:01:29 AM PDT by PJBankard
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To: conservative98

First he said all his players had to stand. Then he joins them and gets on his sorry knees. Maybe jerry should spend more REAL TIME on his knees, talking to the one above.


155 posted on 10/09/2017 10:08:50 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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To: PJBankard
I'm pointing out the dichotomy. Regardless what he says, or is reputed as saying, or wishes he said, we've already seen what he really is.
156 posted on 10/09/2017 10:21:43 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: gaijin
Someone with talent should photoshop this photo:
with Jerry Jones's head as Debbie.
157 posted on 10/09/2017 10:49:11 AM PDT by CDB
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To: topher
Roger is an embarrassment to the country and certainly the Founders.😖 We now understand that the Left has infiltrated and *owns* our every institution. This means it is they who control all avenues of American expression. This is a big deal and a revelation to many.
158 posted on 10/09/2017 11:40:35 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: conservative98

This is what every NFL owner should do. If they did, the crap would be over and the NFL would return to what it once was, and Colin Kaepernick would be the bum who almost ruined it.


159 posted on 10/09/2017 5:09:26 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; stephenjohnbanker

Jerry Jones... AFTER he kneeled with the Bendover Brotherhood.

Must be hitting him in the wallet...

Too little, too late.


160 posted on 10/09/2017 5:47:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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