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The NFL has a MAJOR Hypocrisy Problem When it Comes to Allowing the American Flag to be Disrespected
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| 09/24/2017
| Matthew K. Burke
Posted on 09/24/2017 12:45:51 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: morphing libertarian
Could you please provide a link to that, instead of copying and pasting something that has been posted elsewhere around the internet?
The 2017 NFL Rulebook posted online has no page numbers "A62-A63" anywhere.
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posted on
09/24/2017 3:03:15 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
To: Alberta's Child
I have been looking and I cannot substantiate. I found the NFL rule book but it’s mostly playing rules. There is a contract with the players which proscribes off the field behavior. So at this point I have no source.
To: Alberta's Child
I have asked for the posts to be deleted.
To: lgjhn23
Apparel & video games. Wanna sink em? Take away all auxiliary sales.
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posted on
09/24/2017 3:23:29 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Tucker39
No. It’s all about Ft. McHenry and the battle of Baltimore.
Never mind the battle of Baltimore nowadays.
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posted on
09/24/2017 3:24:30 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Alberta's Child
To: morphing libertarian
Doesn't mean anything to me ... "according to a league source."
Until someone posts a link to the stupid document, it doesn't exist.
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posted on
09/24/2017 6:15:13 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
To: Alberta's Child
I’m trough searching. Could never find a rules of conduct or contract with the players association. Found the fine list and not listed. I’m done.
To: ForYourChildren
Somebody with legal ability needs to please follow-up - seems the NFL has established public guidelines on required behavior during the national anthem - it says that the anthem is to be played and that players are to stand, etc. If/as this rule is being violated while others ala RGIII are fined for similar situations, then the NFL is committing a public fraud! While the NFL is private per se, they are publicly accountable to abide by the rules they have publicly presented! If they arent going to change the rules then they need to start requiring players to behave like responsible citizens as they are apparently obligated contractually. This then becomes a MASSIVE CLASS ACTION against the NFL!
To: ForYourChildren
The inferiorist black jocktrash has jumped the shark.
They have scared their boss owners to death.
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posted on
09/25/2017 3:59:47 PM PDT
by
Thibodeaux
(whites seem to actually be supreme)
To: familyop
I wrote "Kaepernick and company's." We can agree that Kaepernick and in fact the entire NFL crowd he's instigated to join him are nothing but "useful idiots" of a large 5th column of full-time anti-American and anti-cop manipulators in the media, academia and government.
But the kneeling during the national anthem did not start or begin to spread because of the contents of its 3rd stanza. It started with in the 2016 preseason with Kaepernick 1st sitting during the anthem because as he states in his post game interview:
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people {cops} getting paid leave and getting away with murder"
Kaepernick's actions and the origins of this assault on the anthem began before, with the anti-cop and anti-American feelings of Kaepernick and all his enablers in the NFL. In fact here's Kaepernick in the cops as pigs socks he wore more than once to the Niners 2016 training camp. Without any flack from his SF teamates or staff!
During subsequent preseason and the regular season games he knelt instead. As his "protest" spread to other players and teams, no doubt (as your links demonstrate) the 5th column of full-time anti-American and anti-cop manipulators fed the "useful idiots" additional justifications (as the 3rd stanza of anthem) but they were merely pulled from the endless list of the boilerplate leftwing grievance against America and all her traditions, values, heroes, etc..
As for Giant Brandon Marshall, I have no doubt he knew nothing of the 3rd stanza when he joined Kaepernicks ranks, but only parroted that grievance after talking points began circulating - quit probably by the members of the "sports" media covering his team. Marshal own mode of arguing is better reveal in the incident when he spit a fan.
On your final point we return to agreeing: They can't be allowed to succeed in their attack on the National Anthem. If they because of some words in an unused 3rd stanza that before Kaepernicks "protest" 1 in a million may have even known about - what hope will our National Constitution have with they'll only move on to attack the "protest" the unused 3/5 Clause of the Constitution for its word on "3/5s Clause" on slaves?
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posted on
09/26/2017 9:54:23 AM PDT
by
drpix
To: familyop
CORRECTION: "If they WIN because...
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posted on
09/26/2017 10:00:01 AM PDT
by
drpix
To: ForYourChildren
There are decades and numerous cases where the NFL has intervened in acts of self-expression. Among those cases, the NFL fined players who wore shoes honoring victims of 9/11.
The most hypocritical - theNFL denied the Cowboys permission to honor the 6 officers that were assassinated by BLM, who the Cowboys knelt in support of last night.
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posted on
09/26/2017 10:07:18 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
To: drpix
"
But the kneeling during the national anthem did not start or begin to spread because of the contents of its 3rd stanza."
My apology. You're right about that. The articles and talk about the 3rd stanza came out after Kaepernick disrespected our Anthem and flag.
Kaepernick refuses to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black peoplehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/08/27/kaepernick-refuses-to-show-pride-in-a-country-that-oppresses-black-people/
If the enriched commie/fascist products of our academic, business and political leaders (alumni) could so much as cause a widespread fear that our Constitution could be abrogated or weakened by a protest against the three-fifths clause, I'd say that those leaders have interbred for too many generations.
Only a majority of politically and economically influential morons could allow such an outrage to continue so far under their watch. That would be as foolish as moving our means of production to foreign soils, instigating an uprising of wives against husbands in technically inclined families and committing acts of envy and spite against men of current and prior enlisted combat military service.
;-)
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posted on
09/26/2017 11:15:28 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
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posted on
09/26/2017 11:50:40 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Repent)
To: ForYourChildren
Love that shirt. Says it all.
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posted on
09/26/2017 11:51:15 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Repent)
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