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  • Steelers icon, Vietnam vet Rocky Bleier on NFL protests: ‘It should have never gotten to this point’

    10/26/2017 2:33:00 PM PDT · by Leaning Right · 20 replies
    Yahoo Sports ^ | Oct 26, 2017 | Anthony Sulla-Heffinger
    Few people involved in the NFL’s ongoing national anthem debate are as qualified to discuss the subject as former Pittsburgh Steelers halfback Rocky Bleier. Bleier, 71, served in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. He lost part of his right foot due to a combat injury and had to fight his way back into the NFL after returning from the battlefield. *snip* “It’s very simply this: This is a workplace, you are at the stadium, you are working that day, this is not a platform for protest,” Bleier told Yahoo Sports.