Posted on 09/25/2017 10:52:41 PM PDT by TBP
They're butt hurt from their own feelings abusing them. A participation trophy for each and everyone of them might be just the thing to make this all go away...
As long as it is the national anthem, we give it respect. It is a symbol, like the flag is a symbol. Symbols evoke emotions.
Hatred for the symbol is hatred for what it represents.
“ABOUT A NATION NOT A PRESIDENT”
True, but the protesters are protesting the nation run by whites.
He took over for an underperforming QB then went on to underperform him, tak8ng the 9’ers to an abysmal losing season.
He should have accepted that time moves on and eventually, in sports, so will your time...
cowardly white owners like Jerry Jones
It’s appropriate, I guess,
that this tempest
be rife with goal post moving.
Why was Jerry with them in the first place?
what difference does it make?
Just keep moving that goal post.
Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys
did not kneel during the anthem
or while the flag was on the field.
Cop out bastard!
Why was Jerry on the field, to show unity? Unity for what?
Got to keep the Bro’s happy.
I don’t know. Was it illegal?
On another note, what is the significance of your username?
I ask because I’m a former DFW resident living hear the UF Gators in Gainesville. I should be gatordfw. LOL
Cop out bastard!
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So now you're bashing him for not disrespecting the flag and anthem? Do you not see how childish this is becoming?
Rationalization is a great place to fall back on isn’t it?
You’re calling him a coward for not dissing the flag or anthem. That’s not rational.
Not saying it’s illegal, but what was Jerry’s point in joining them?
Ask Jerry.
THAT STORY BEGINS, as so many tales in modern American sports do, with Babe Ruth. History records various games in which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played dating from the mid-1800s, but Ruth's last postseason appearances for the Boston Red Sox coincided with the song's first unbreakable bond with the sports world, in 1918. Game 1 of that year's World Series was notable for many reasons...There was also World War I, which blackened everything, including the national pastime. The U.S. had entered the war 17 months earlier, and in that time some 100,000 American soldiers died. Veterans who survived often came home maimed or shell-shocked from encounters with modern warfare's first mechanized mass-killing machines. At home, the public mood was sullen and anxious. The war strained the economy and the workforce, including baseball's. The government began drafting major leaguers for military service that summer and ordered baseball to end the regular season by Labor Day. As a result, the 1918 Series was the lone October Classic played entirely in September.
World War I wasn't the only issue weighing heavily on fans. On Sept. 4, the day before the first game, a bomb ripped through the Chicago Federal Building, killing four people and injuring 30. The Industrial Workers of the World were thought to be behind the attack, a retaliation for the conviction of several IWW members on federal sedition charges...
Although the Cubs festooned the park in as much red, white and blue as possible, the glum crowd in the stands for Game 1 remained nearly silent through most of Ruth's 1-0 shutout victory over Chicago's Hippo Vaughn. Not even the Cubs Claws, the forerunners to Wrigley's Bleacher Bums, could gin up enthusiasm...
With one exception: the seventh-inning stretch. As was common during sporting events, a military band was on hand to play, and while the fans were on their feet, the musicians fired up "The Star-Spangled Banner." They weren't the only active-duty servicemen on the field, though. Red Sox third baseman Fred Thomas was playing the Series while on furlough from the Navy, where he'd been learning seamanship at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago...
Upon hearing the opening notes of Key's song from the military band, Thomas immediately faced the flag and snapped to attention with a military salute. The other players on the field followed suit, in "civilian" fashion, meaning they stood and put their right hands over their hearts. The crowd, already standing, showed its first real signs of life all day, joining in a spontaneous sing-along, haltingly at first, then finishing with flair. The scene made such an impression that The New York Times opened its recap of the game not with a description of the action on the field but with an account of the impromptu singing: "First the song was taken up by a few, then others joined, and when the final notes came, a great volume of melody rolled across the field. It was at the very end that the onlookers exploded into thunderous applause and rent the air with a cheer that marked the highest point of the day's enthusiasm."
The Cubs front office realized it had witnessed something unique. For the next two games, it had the band play "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the seventh-inning stretch, to similarly enthusiastic crowds. By Game 3, a bigger crowd of 27,000 was in attendance. Not to be outdone, the Red Sox ratcheted up the pageantry when the Series relocated to Boston for the next three games. At Fenway Park, "The Star-Spangled Banner" moved from the seventh-inning stretch to the pregame festivities, and the team coupled the playing of the song with the introduction of wounded soldiers who had received free tickets.
Like the Chicago fans, the normally reserved Boston crowd erupted for the pregame anthem and the hobbled heroes. As the Tribune wrote of the wounded soldiers at Game 6, "[T]heir entrance on crutches supported by their comrades evoked louder cheers than anything the athletes did on the diamond..."
Still, the Series' most enduring legacy belongs to a song. Other major league teams noticed the popular reaction to "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1918, and over the next decade it became standard for World Series and holiday games. In subsequent years, through subsequent wars, it grew into the daily institution we know today...
Congress didn't officially adopt the "The Star-Spangled Banner" until 1931 -- and by that time it was already a baseball tradition steeped in wartime patriotism. Thanks to a brass band, some fickle fans and a player who snapped to attention on a somber day in September, the old battle ballad was the national pastime's anthem more than a decade before it was the nation's.
-PJ
Any response other then standing at attention with your hat off is siding with those purposely disrespecting the Anthem and the Flag of our country. His answer to concede prior to the presentation of the Anthem is therefore a cop out. Has never been done before and should not ever be done again. There is a proper way to respect this country and those not respecting this country do not belong on the field taking the money from real citizens. So rationalize it how you will, what he did was wrong and and his smirk did not help.
bkmk
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