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NFL take-a-knee protests boil down to two liberal cities
Washington Times ^ | November 9, 2017 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 11/10/2017 2:35:34 PM PST by Mafe

The NFL has taken a beating over players kneeling during the national anthem, but a closer examination shows that the protests are less a story of the league as a whole and more a tale of two liberal cities: San Francisco and Seattle.

On any given Sunday, the vast majority of those refusing to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner” play for the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks, teams nestled in famously left-wing locales and led by owners who sought to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

That doesn’t include blips like Sept. 25, which saw nearly 200 players kneel in reaction to President Trump’s suggestion that owners should fire protesters, or Oct. 29, when all but 10 of the Houston Texans took a knee after owner Bob McNair said the NFL “can’t have the inmates running the prison.”

But those days were distinct exceptions. Most Sundays look more like Nov. 5, when 11 of the 15 players who sat or knelt for the national anthem wore the uniforms of the Seahawks or 49ers, according to the ESPN tally.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Politics; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 49ers; anthem; knee; nfl; protest; sanfrancisco; seahawks; seattle
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1 posted on 11/10/2017 2:35:34 PM PST by Mafe
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we refuse to give NFL one red cent of our hard-earned money anymore! this anti-American display krap is disgusting!

NFL GTH!


2 posted on 11/10/2017 2:40:06 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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Keep kneeling. Let’s draw as clear and as obvious a line between the sides as possible.


3 posted on 11/10/2017 2:40:50 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Mafe

I hope a list is kept of every player in the NFL who took the knee even once.


4 posted on 11/10/2017 2:41:45 PM PST by Dante3
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Oh well. Watch that 34% of revenue lost trickle on down.


5 posted on 11/10/2017 2:42:32 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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6 posted on 11/10/2017 2:42:51 PM PST by timestax
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To: Mafe

Nice try no cigar.

200 players kneeled. Once is as good as all season.

Besides, a lot of had already stopped watching because the game has been ruined by the league.


7 posted on 11/10/2017 2:43:15 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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8 posted on 11/10/2017 2:57:10 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Take A Knee - You're Dead To Me

Does not matter if it is once or every game.

And BTW, if you think standing and linking arms is being respectful...FU!

9 posted on 11/10/2017 3:03:50 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Seaturkeys are dead to me. Maybe they could move to L.A.


10 posted on 11/10/2017 3:05:03 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Mafe

Stopped briefly by NBC to see what was on and happened to see that there was an NFL game. Promptly changed it, but not before I saw the Seahawks “resplendent” in their all Chartreuse (or, as my father called it, $h!+-reuse) uniforms and the Cardinals looking equally bizarre in all black with white helmets, more like white-headed cockroaches than athletes.

I think I can deal with the kneeling better than these insipid “color rush” uniforms that the NFL is pushing for their national games. At least you only have to deal with a few jagoffs kneeling for a couple minutes at the start of the game. These uniforms are worn by the entire team for the entire game. Almost makes me yearn for the old days of Black & White TV!


11 posted on 11/10/2017 3:13:21 PM PST by ssaftler (NFL? We don't need no stinking NFL!)
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To: Mafe

I’d disagree with the author, this doesn’t boil down to 2 cities. Players and some owners in multiple cities disrespected our country. Their actions were a reflection of what is in their heart/mind. For them to stop kneeling doesn’t necessarily mean they realize how obnoxious they were, I’d suspect it their greater concern of lost revenue.

The NFL has yet to fix this, and inaction has only made it worse. My decades long NFL addiction was surprisingly easy to break.


12 posted on 11/10/2017 3:13:53 PM PST by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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All of football, including the Negro Felon League, no longer exist to me.


13 posted on 11/10/2017 3:16:27 PM PST by nickedknack ("Your time is up!")
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Sorry. Not buying it. The substitute protest of the “linked arms” is still SJW lecturing and I’m not interested. I used to watch to see a football game, if I want a lecture I’ll turn on C Span.


14 posted on 11/10/2017 3:17:32 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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I agree, the uniforms for both teams were nauseating last night. I can’t stand the lime green; I really wish they’d get rid of them.


15 posted on 11/10/2017 3:20:16 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: Made In The USA

You are absolutely correct. It was an easy habit to break.

I look back and enjoy the memories. The NFL has never been the same since Cosell, Dandy Don or Frank.

I’ll give Madden a ton of credit as he kept it going.

Costas, not so much after his stupid diatribe about the 2nd.

The players of the NFL decided they no longer supported the Country I volunteered to defend.

Fair enough. I no longer support you.


16 posted on 11/10/2017 3:28:43 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Mafe

The NFL is dead to me, finished.
Let the democrats & BLM types keep the league flush with spending money.


17 posted on 11/10/2017 3:29:52 PM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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No, it boils down to the entire league is going to be held to account for the actions of anyone in it.

You failed to control them, thus you will be controlled.

Too bad, so sad, better luck next league. Live and learn.


18 posted on 11/10/2017 3:29:57 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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Within two years the NFL is going to be back to the level of popularity and coverage as that of the 1920s.


19 posted on 11/10/2017 3:39:05 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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The locking arms is just as bad. They are sending a message, and we got it.


20 posted on 11/10/2017 3:39:46 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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