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Stand-up team: No Philadelphia Eagles players knelt for national anthem in 2017
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, February 1, 2018 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 02/04/2018 11:47:22 AM PST by Rebelbase

If you’re planning to watch the Super Bowl but you can’t stand the NFL take-a-knee protests, you may want to root for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Not a single Eagles player sat or knelt during the national anthem, one of just seven teams with perfect non-kneeling records, in a season that saw 684 such incidents, according to a study released Thursday by Sports Pundit.

The other Super Bowl LII team, the New England Patriots, landed in the middle of the pack with 17 incidents of anthem sitting or kneeling, wedged between the Buffalo Bills with 16 and the Cleveland Browns with 20.

Still, neither of the Super Bowl teams was in any danger of catching the leader: the Seattle Seahawks, which easily scored the most episodes of sitting or kneeling with 156, followed by the San Francisco 49ers with 110.

Both of those teams play in the NFC West. Oddly enough, the division’s other two teams — the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams — had zero take-a-knee protests.

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


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To: Prov1322; Kid Shelleen
Go, Iggles!


41 posted on 02/04/2018 2:35:45 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Winning isn't as easy as I make it look. -- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I am PRAYING very hard that Philly wins, the state won Trump the election, God Bless their team today!!!!


42 posted on 02/04/2018 2:40:23 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Albion Wilde

43 posted on 02/04/2018 2:40:53 PM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: newfreep

I took the prop bet that the Eagles have more penalty yards than the Patriots.


44 posted on 02/04/2018 2:43:22 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Rebelbase

I WON'T BE WATCHING.

NO NFL, INCLUDING THE SUPER BOWL.

Good to know the EAGLES have several Christians and that the team never kneeled.

I don't care which team ultimately wins, but I won't mind learning that Tom Terrific won his 6th. I know he works hard for his successes.

I'll just hope for an injury-free game and a game that's free from controversial calls from the refs that effect the final score.


45 posted on 02/04/2018 2:43:58 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY or the Highway)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Excellent point!


46 posted on 02/04/2018 2:44:54 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY or the Highway)
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To: dirtboy

Yep.

5.56mm


47 posted on 02/04/2018 2:48:06 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“... I am PRAYING very hard that Philly wins ...”
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I doubt that GOD is concerned who wins the game.


48 posted on 02/04/2018 2:50:52 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: onyx

The game is no different then the final match in Wrestlemania.


49 posted on 02/04/2018 2:52:01 PM PST by Midnitethecat
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To: Repeal The 17th

God’s too busy following the English Premier League, anyway.


50 posted on 02/04/2018 2:52:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Midnitethecat
It's over 80 degrees here (San Diego) today.
I'm taking my French Bulldog, Louie to the beach right now.


51 posted on 02/04/2018 3:00:55 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY or the Highway)
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To: Rebelbase

The Eagles have one of the anthem kneeling ringleaders on their team this year.


52 posted on 02/04/2018 3:03:01 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: Rebelbase

The NFL keeps trying to burnish its image, and I’m still not listening. I hope the National Felons League fails miserably.


53 posted on 02/04/2018 3:08:53 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: proust

Nice catch! So they didn’t kneel but gave the black power salute instead. A pox on all of them. I hope cops stop answering calls in the ghetto. Let them keep shooting each other.


54 posted on 02/04/2018 3:10:05 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: Rebelbase

I did not know this fact. Thanks for giving me new respect for my home town team! Fly Eagles Fly. (Though I’m not watching)


55 posted on 02/04/2018 3:16:09 PM PST by catbertz
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To: Rebelbase

I am not watching. Don’t care who wins. The NFL already lost.


56 posted on 02/04/2018 4:23:10 PM PST by NTegraT (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Rebelbase

Shouldn’t matter which player on which team took a knee or not: what matters is that the NFL, as an organization, supported and condoned the kneelers, so all NFL teams are equally complicit.


57 posted on 02/04/2018 4:46:36 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: dirtboy

Some of the Eagles did display black power clenched fist salutes during anthems, so they are not all clean on this.
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This issue is not about individual players and stand v kneel headcounts. IT IS ABOUT THE NFL ALLOWING PLAYERS TO DECIDE WETHER TO STAND OR KNEEL. No player has a right to set employment conditions. The league took millions from the US Military to have anthem ceremonies for which the players and the teams honored the American military and were required to stand at attention on sidelines with helmet in hand. The league refused to enforce the rule and hid behind the first amendment . It isn’t a first amendment issue it is a working conditions issue. The league is now SJW. They have ruined their product and shit on their customers. they will get what they deserve. Free people, free markets. If the product is no longer worth watching, the customer will no longer buy it.
Interestingly, Justin Timberlake, the half time entertainment was quoted as saying “I will never let my son play football” The league will be eaten alive by embracing PC cultural marxism. “When the revolution comes “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin


58 posted on 02/04/2018 4:52:02 PM PST by photodawg
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To: Brown Deer

they lost. bummer.


59 posted on 02/04/2018 8:06:12 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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