Posted on 08/10/2018 5:18:56 AM PDT by C19fan
NFL players resumed protesting during the national anthem on Thursday night as the majority of teams played their first preseason games.
In total 15 players from five teams including the Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens chose to make a statement during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Two players knelt, three raised their fists, eight either walked from the field or stayed in the locker room, one placed his arm on a protesting teammate's shoulder and another stood with his back to the field as a statement against inequality.
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Not much of an NFL fan. To me football is for Saturday and church is for Sunday. Especially here in the south where our college football is at a good level.
But I don’t see 15 protestors out of hundreds of players a big deal. I think the former NFL lovers on the right are letting the media manipulate you into hating something you used to love -— something they were trying to ban to begin with anyway. So when you let them make you hate it, they win, not you.
“How has that kneeling worked out for them so far?”
They are just doing it for attention. They have nothing to protest, and they don’t realize this only draws attention to their ignorance.
“Football is entertainment.”
“The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.”
Robert A. Heinlein
F’em.
5.56mm
I fully support the right of the players to kneel. This is America, and you have the freedom to kneel, stand, raise a fist, walk around, stand on your head, whatever.
That being said, I have the right to now ignore the NFL, and find better things to do with my Sundays. Which I will.
88 of the 92 are men, which is 95% of the total.
So men are being killed out of proportion to the actual percentage, 87%, on the forces.
So, NFL management and the teams’ management have failed to resolve the problem.
This is my shocked face.
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Well, we all die. Eventually. That's equality.
Bye, Bye NFL!
Haven’t watched in a few years so this confirms my decision.
Yep. Dying on a stupid hill.
grownmangame
that’s what lamar jackson called it
Sunday Afternoons in the fall were made for hunting, Fishing and going target shooting with friends and family!!
This is going to cost the NFL real money this year. Teams that do not sell out will see a drop of tickets. Trump should look at the NFL’s favorable tax treatment and make them the same as other corporations.
Maybe its time to push for equality in the NFL and NBA. Make sure the proper number of Whites, Asians and Hispanics are given roster spots!!!
I attended my first Pro Football game at age 9 in 1950 at the long ago replaced Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, and was a season ticker holder for 38 years {at certain times I owned 16 seats for the entire season}.
Sold my rights for the my seats at Heinz Field several years ago, {before the kneeling, it was because of a no smoking policy} stopped watching games last year, but confess that I did watch some Steeler high lights.
I did not miss being glued to the TV for 8-10 hours every Sunday, played more golf, got more work done, didn't have to rush home from Church and skip a lunch out to make a 1:00 PM kickoff time.
The young kids don't watch that much tv, and the older fans are pissed at the stupidity of the entire group, owners, players and especially elmer fudd, the overpaid football commissar with one thumb in his mouth and the other in his ass and responds the the command 'switch'.
Pro football has forgotten that they are entertainment and have certainly forgotten the genesis of the AFL, although I think the threat of an alternative league is remote, the downsizing of the loyal audience will have a very negative effect on their bottom line.
So the league can tell an owner, Jerry Jones, not to talk about the subject, but they can’t tell the players not to protest. Who is running the NFL anyway?
The “platform” does NOT belong to the players.
There are better, more effective ways to do this. If I am going to try to convince someone of something, I don’t b!+ch-slap them before I offer my side of the story. If they don’t listen, you lose your chance. The people they need to convince of their position are the very ones tuning out.
They are just being brain-dead stupid, plain and simple.
groan men
OK, I guess I’ll continue my boycott.
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