You just drew your final line with me, National Football League.
You and all your sponsors and your Leftist sycophants at ESPN can all go to hell.
You are dead to me.
What’s acceptable and unacceptable in the NFL. The bottom are shoes of Tennessee Titans player Avery Williamson who was threatened by the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell when he wanted to wear them in honor of 9/11.
Also, remember when NFL Commissioner Goodell refused to allow the Dallas Cowboys to wear a sticker honoring five murdered Dallas Police officers in 2016? I certainly do, as I wrote about it in August last year.
Here is the heinously-offensive sticker that had to be removed and never further applied. A five-pointed star, with each point to represent one murdered officer.
From the NYDailyNews.com:
NFL rejects Cowboys petition to wear helmet decal memorializing Dallas officers that were killed
by Daniel O’Leary
The NFL has gone from the No Fun League to the No Feelings League.
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Dallas Cowboys filed a petition for permission to wear a helmet decal memorializing the five officers killed in a tragic shooting in Dallas back in July.
The decal featured a star – similar to the one featured prominently in the Dallas PD logo – with a black circle around it and the phrase “Arm In Arm,” to signify support for the police and the Dallas community after the tragedy. The Cowboys opened up training camp while walking with their arms interlocked with members of the Dallas police department.
The team has worn the decal on its helmets during training camp, but will now have to be removed. According to the Star-Telegram, Cowboys VP Stephen Jones said the league had already rejected the team’s petition to wear it during the regular season but extended the ban to the preseason as well.
“Expanded the ban to the pre-season as well.” Translated: not just no, but hell no.
Anyone perceive the slightest bit of hypocrisy? Anywhere?
Let’s first start with this, as the Ravens and Jaguars decide to all take a knee across the pond at Wembley Stadium in England this Black Sunday the 24th.
Jacksonville/ Ravens anthem vid… #takeaknee @realDonaldTrump go fuck yourself pic.twitter.com/8jxJ9a072z
— 4rilla (@4rilla) September 24, 2017
From CNBC.com:
In rebuke to Trump, Ravens and Jaguars take a knee in London during US national anthem
About two dozen players, including Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette, took a knee during the playing of the national anthem before the start of the teams’ game at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
Other players on one knee during the performance included Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley, wide receiver Mike Wallace and safety Lardarius Webb as well as Jaguars linebacker Dante Fowler, defensive tackle Calais Campbell, defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback Jalen Ramsey.
Players on both teams and Jaguars owner Shad Khan, who were not kneeling, remained locked arm-in-arm throughout the playing of the national anthem and “God Save The Queen,” the national anthem of Britain.No players were kneeling during the playing of the British national anthem.
Of course not. That might offend the Brits. They’re a new and expanding market.
NFL, oh yes, you’ll definitely need some new and expanding markets after this Black Sunday the 24th.
How did the fans react?
#NFL Fans React to National Anthem Controversy pic.twitter.com/Jb8LN8esAe
— Kevin W. (@kwilli1046) September 26, 2017
Some other reactions on Twitter.
Then there is this, from ESPN.com. I want you to see and read how this is crafted by ESPN and Leftist journalistas.
Steelers remain in locker room during the national anthem
by Jeremy Fowler
CHICAGO — In a sign of solidarity, the Pittsburgh Steelers stayed in the locker room during the national anthem before their 1 p.m. ET kickoff with the Chicago Bears.
As the anthem began in Soldier Field, several Steelers coaches were on the sideline, including head coach Mike Tomlin, while the players were not present. Offensive coordinator Todd Haley, offensive line coach Mike Munchak and running backs coach James Saxon also were spotted.
ESPN translation? Race traitors and racists, every one of them.
Players took the field within a few seconds of the anthem’s end, just after fireworks launched, with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger one of the first players out of the tunnel.
Note this:
Left tackle Alejandro Villanueva, an Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, was seen on the CBS broadcast at the edge of the tunnel during the anthem, hand over heart.
The entire Steelers team stayed in the locker room for national anthem except for Villanueva who served 3 tours in Afghanistan.
A true hero pic.twitter.com/nnDsHrwym3— Rowdy Americans (@RowdyAmericans) September 24, 2017
Trust me. There are already Leftists readily attempting to identify and locate the black employee at the bottom left of the photo, hand over heart like most Americans, in order to expose him, humiliate him, embarrass him, perhaps even harm him.
He was outside. Standing. One man. Hand over heart. During the national anthem. One man who had served in the US military, who had served his nation and who had the courage, the balls, to be the one Steeler who honored and respected the US flag.
Standing. One man. Hand over heart.
But wait; there’s more. One day later Villanueva had regrets. He feels he let his team down. Translated: he’s a good man but the rest of his teammates made him feel guilty for his stance.
.@JudgeJeanine: “All of a sudden football players are lovers of the Constitution and the First Amendment — you’re full of crap.” pic.twitter.com/3SDkEi6b4H
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 24, 2017
Jeanine Pirro wasn’t the only one weighing in. So did The Black Sphere’s Kevin Jackson.
.@KevinJacksonTBS on athletes kneeling: “We have a president who is standing up for the flag in America.” pic.twitter.com/bz9a22vTyv
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 24, 2017
Other people weighed in on the NFL issue. Why is it that the bulk of the insightful and cogent opinions were by young black males? Listen. First from CJ Pearson.
.@realDonaldTrump isn’t going after @Kaepernick7 and @StephenCurry30 for being black. He’s going after them for their disrespect of America. pic.twitter.com/IIFxB2Cwk7
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) September 23, 2017
Terrence Williams spoke about the situation.
Then there was this brilliant piece by Brandon Tatum.
As far as the NFL is concerned — just like Hillary Rodham Clinton — it doesn’t have a problem. Everyone else has the problem. It’s everyone else’s fault but theirs.
And, like Hillary, they lack the ability to conduct introspection or self examination despite Captain Obvious visiting on a daily basis.
From the DailyCaller.com:
It’s Shocking How Empty The Stadium Was For Thursday Night Football
by David Hookstead
The San Francisco 49ers Thursday night game against the Los Angeles Rams kicked off in front of a nearly empty stadium.
Los Angeles Times reporter Lindsey Thiry tweeted a photo at the time of kickoff, which showed thousands of open seats. In fact, most sections in the photo have more empty seats than fans.
Further, we must remember the probity and innocence of the NFL players themselves, anyway. Ahem.
So what is this really about? You should ask the question and all the involved players should ask the question. Is it about this loose word “unity” as some are insisting? Unity in what, specifically? Unity in terms of only what those on the Left are advocating?
Or is it — as I suspect — about what Colin Kaepernick originally stated? The rampant and overwhelming gunning-down by Caucasoid police officers of innocent and unarmed young black males?
Except that premise is a fallacy. Police shootings of blacks have gone down over the years, not up.
From the NationalReview.com, this incredibly powerful, accurate and factual article:
Police Violence against Black Men Is Rare
by Phillippe Lemoine
And the media narrative to the contrary is damaging.
A few days ago, former police officer Jason Stockley, who is white, was acquitted of first-degree murder; he had fatally shot Anthony Lamar Smith, who was black, in 2011. Protests started in St. Louis, where the shooting took place and Stockley was judged, immediately after the verdict was announced. Although they were initially peaceful, they soon turned violent, and dozens of protesters were arrested while several police officers were injured. Since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, just outside St. Louis, in 2014, this has become a familiar pattern.
This article is not about whether Stockley should have been acquitted. Instead, I want to talk about the underlying narrative regarding the prevalence of police brutality against black men in the U.S., which is largely undisputed in the media.
According to this narrative, black men are constantly harassed by the police and routinely brutalized with impunity, even when they have done nothing wrong, and there is an “epidemic of police shootings of unarmed black men.” Even high-profile black celebrities often claim to be afraid of the police because the same thing might happen to them. Police brutality, or at least the possibility that one might become a victim of such violence, is supposed to be part of the experience of a typical black man in the U.S. Events such as the death of Brown in Ferguson are presented as proof that black men are never safe from the police.
This narrative is false. In reality, a randomly selected black man is overwhelmingly unlikely to be victim of police violence — and though white men experience such violence even less often, the disparity is consistent with the racial gap in violent crime, suggesting that the role of racial bias is small. The media’s acceptance of the false narrative poisons the relations between law enforcement and black communities throughout the country and results in violent protests that destroy property and sometimes even claim lives. Perhaps even more importantly, the narrative distracts from far more serious problems that black Americans face.
Let’s start with the question of fatal violence. Last year, according to the Washington Post’s tally, just 16 unarmed black men, out of a population of more than 20 million, were killed by the police. The year before, the number was 36. These figures are likely close to the number of black men struck by lightning in a given year, considering that happens to about 300 Americans annually and black men are 7 percent of the population. And they include cases where the shooting was justified, even if the person killed was unarmed.
Of course, police killings are not the result of a force of nature, and I’m not claiming these are morally equivalent. But the comparison illustrates that these killings are incredibly rare, and that it’s completely misleading to talk about an “epidemic” of them. You don’t hear people talk about an epidemic of lightning strikes and claim they are afraid to go outside because of it. Liberals often make the same comparison when they argue that it’s completely irrational to fear that you might become a victim of terrorism.
One might retort that, while it may be rare for a black man to be killed by the police, black men are still constantly stopped and routinely brutalized by the police, even if they don’t die from it. However, even this weaker claim is false. It just isn’t true that black men are kicked, punched, etc., on a regular basis by the police.
In order to show that, I’m going to use data from the Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), which, as its name suggests, provides detailed information about contacts between the police and the public. It’s conducted on a regular basis by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and is based on a nationally representative sample of more than 70,000 U.S. residents age 16 or older. Respondents are asked whether they had a contact with the police during the past 12 months; if they say they did, they answer a battery of questions about the nature of their last contact, including any use of force. Since the respondents also provide their age, race, gender, etc., we can use this survey to calculate the prevalence of police violence for various demographic groups. The numbers in this piece are from my own analysis of the data, the details and code for which I provide here, but they are consistent with a 2015 report compiled by the BJS itself to the extent the two overlap.
First, despite what the narrative claims, it’s not true that black men are constantly stopped by the police for no reason. Indeed, black men are less likely than white men to have contact with the police in any given year, though this includes situations where the respondent called the cops himself: 17.5 percent versus 20.7 percent. Similarly, a black man has on average only 0.32 contacts with the police in any given year, compared with 0.35 contacts for a white man. It’s true that black men are overrepresented among people who have many contacts with the police, but not by much. Only 1.5 percent of black men have more than three contacts with the police in any given year, whereas 1.2 percent of white men do.
If we look at how often the police use physical force against men of different races, we find that there is indeed a racial disparity, but that this experience is rare across the board. Only 0.6 percent of black men experience physical force by the police in any given year, while approximately 0.2 percent of white men do. To be fair, these are probably slight undercounts, because the survey does not allow us to identify people who did not experience physical force during their most recent contact but did experience such force during a previous contact in the same year.
Further, physical force as defined by the PPCS includes relatively mild forms of violence such as pushing and grabbing. Actual injuries by the police are so rare that one cannot estimate them very precisely even in a survey as big as the PPCS, but the available data suggest that only 0.08 percent of black men are injured by the police each year, approximately the same rate as for white men. A black man is about 44 times as likely to suffer a traffic-related injury, according to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Moreover, keep in mind that these tallies of police violence include violence that is legally justified.
Now, it’s true that there are significant differences in the rates at which men of different races experience police violence — 0.6 percent is triple 0.2 percent. However, although people often equate racial disparities with bias, this inference is fallacious, as can be seen through an analogy with gender: Men are vastly more likely to experience police violence than women are, but while bias may explain part of this disparity, nobody doubts that most of it has to do with the fact that men are on average far more violent than women. Similarly, if black men commit violent crimes at much higher rates than white men, that might have a lot to do with the disparity in the use of force by the police.
This is evident in the National Crime Victimization Survey, another survey of the public conducted by the BJS. Interviewers ask respondents if they have been the victim of a crime in the past 12 months; if they have, respondents provide information about the nature of the incidents, including the race and ethnicity of the offenders. This makes it possible to measure racial differences in crime rates without relying on data from the criminal-justice system, in which racial bias could lead to higher rates of arrest and conviction for black men even if they commit violence at the same rate.
NCVS data from 2015, the most recent year available, suggest that black men are three times as likely to commit violent crimes as white men. To the extent that cops are more likely to use force against people who commit violent crimes, which they surely are, this could easily explain the disparities we have observed in the rates at which the police use force. That’s not to say that bias plays no role; I’m sure it does play one. But it’s unlikely to explain a very large part of the discrepancy.
Some might say that, instead of consulting statistics like these, we should defer to black Americans’ own perceptions of how the police treat them. As various polls have demonstrated, black people are much more likely than white people to think that police violence against minorities is very common. But the issue cannot be settled this way.
Since individuals have direct knowledge of what happened to them personally, you can trust them about that. But when it comes to larger social phenomena, people’s beliefs are influenced by far more than just their personal experience, including the media. The far more compelling fact is that, if you draw a representative sample of the population and ask each black man in that sample whether a police officer has used physical force against him in the past year, you find that it’s extremely rare.
On many issues, liberals have no problem recognizing this problem. For instance, there is a cottage industry of articles deploring the fact that, although crime has fallen spectacularly in the U.S. since the 1990s, most Americans believe it has increased. Liberals are absolutely right to point out this misperception, but if people of any color can be wrong about this, there is no reason to think black people can’t be wrong about the prevalence of police violence against minorities.
Let’s throw in some more facts. Facts that some apologist elements may not care for because they’re, well, factual. Heather McDonald, a significant author when it comes to law enforcement facts and statistics, notes:
A recent “deadly force” study by Washington State University researcher Lois James found that police officers were less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white or Hispanic ones in simulated threat scenarios. Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer analyzed more than 1,000 officer-involved shootings across the country. He concluded that there is zero evidence of racial bias in police shootings. In Houston, he found that blacks were 24 percent less likely than whites to be shot by officers even though the suspects were armed or violent.
An analysis of the Washington Post’s Police Shooting Database and of Federal Crime Statistics reveals that fully 12 percent of all whites and Hispanics who die of homicide are killed by cops. By contrast, only four percent of black homicide victims are killed by cops.
But isn’t it a sign of bias that blacks make up 26 percent of police-shooting victims, but only 13 percent of the national population? It is not, and common sense suggests why. Police shootings occur more frequently where officers confront armed or violently resisting suspects. Those suspects are disproportionately black.
Here are more damning facts that race apologists, racists, Race and Poverty Pimps, Leftists and Demorats don’t want you to know.
According to the most recent study by the Department of Justice, although blacks were only about 15 percent of the population in the 75 largest counties in the US, they were charged with 62 percent of all robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults. In New York City, blacks commit over three-quarters of all shootings, though they are only 23 percent of the city’s population. Whites, by contrast, commit under two percent of all shootings in the city, though they are 34 percent of the population. New York’s crime disparities are repeated in virtually every racially diverse city in America. The real problem facing inner-city black communities today is not the police but criminals.
In 2014, over 6,000 blacks were murdered, more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined. Who is killing them? Not the police, and not white civilians, but other blacks. In fact, a police officer is eighteen and a half times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. If the police ended all use of lethal force tomorrow, it would have a negligible impact on the black death-by-homicide rate.
In Chicago, through just the first six-and-a-half months of 2016, over 2,300 people were shot. That’s a shooting an hour during some weekends. The vast majority of the victims were black. During this same period, the Chicago police shot 12 people, all armed and dangerous. That’s one half of one percent of all shootings.
The problem is now, with that and more, crime is going up. From UPI.com:
FBI: Violent crime up in 2016 for second year in a row
by Allen Cone
Sept. 25 (UPI) — Violent crime across the United States increased in 2016 for the second year in a row — a climb of 4 percent, according to annual figures released Monday by the FBI.
The 2016 violent crime rate was 386 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants — up from 373 in 2015, and the highest figure since 2012.
The FBI said last year there were 1,248,185 violent crimes — which include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The report noted that those types of crimes increased across all population categories.
The 2016 rate, though, was still 18 percent lower than it was a decade ago — and the murder rate was 6 percent lower.
The Justice Department said the data report “reaffirms that the worrying violent crime increase that began in 2015 after many years of decline was not an isolated incident.”
I know why. You suspect it as well. It’s called “proactive” vs “reactive” police philosophies. You can only yell “over-policed” at law enforcement for so long before they take you up on the demand to reduce.
All that said, why are so many persons caving to what appears to be protests based in ignorance (Black Lives Matter itself was created behind the falsehood of “hands up don’t shoot)?
Easy. The NFL is a business. And as a business Roger Goodell and the NFL team owners realize that the NFL is 70% black. Not a shocking statistic. What this means is that the NFL itself fears its players — more protests, possible walkouts, etc. — more than it fears you, the purchasing and attending public. You’ll come back. You always have. You always will.
The NFL is, literally, counting on it.
Despite what Leftists and anarchists are pushing, this is at least for the time being, a free country.
Players — as long as there are no contractual conflicts, as with the Dallas Cowboys — are free to take a knee and refuse to attend the national anthem all they wish.
The owners are free to support their players.
Roger Goodell is free to support all the players who take knees or refuse to attend the national anthem wholesale.
Just as I am free to write this post. I am free to not just disagree but disagree vehemently.
I am free to stop watching the NFL and ESPN.
I am free to cut the cord to cable companies who still make me pay for channels that go against my views, such as anything having to do with Disney, ESPN, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN Headline News, Comcast, CBS, et al.
I am free to compile a list of those advertisers who support the NFL and cut their cord as well.
And I am free to publish all this information far and wide on social media, on the blog and on the air at SHR Media.com.
We are all free. For the time being.
Do as you wish, NFL. I shall do as I wish.
Tomi Lahren nails it.
But even so, the bottom line is this: it’s not about the NFL. It’s not about ratings. It’s not about attendance or ticket sales or viewers. It’s something much larger.
First question that came to my mind: how long will it be before sports and other entities decide that it’s simply too controversial to even play the national anthem at all?
I value honesty and clarity. So let’s be honest and clear. We know why this occurs in the NFL and why it is not only accepted but in many ways encouraged. It occurs via GOWPs and guilt.
Attacks on whites & our national heritage are no passing fad. It’ll only get worse as whites become a minority due to immigration#TakeAKnee pic.twitter.com/Zvu1UfEPZN
— Patriotic Mama☄ (@BluegillRises) September 24, 2017
I have said and will continue to say: “no one is equal until everyone is equal.”
And even then, the picture is so much, much larger. It’s about the total dismantling of this nation, the removal of our current Constitution and Bill of Rights via the installation of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and its subsequent rebuilding by Leftists and anarchists.
For now:
- #BoycottTheNFL
- #FUCKTHENFL
- #fuckthenfl
- #DumpNFL
Black Sunday the 24h was the day the NFL pounded the final nail into its own coffin.
Lines are drawn. I am pushback.
So be it.
BZ
Fuck all those room temperature ass clown fuck faced faggot jocks!
Some day, Homer, you’ll come out of your shell and tell us what it is you REALLY think.
BZ
In recent years I’ve gone from a fan to mildly interested. Too many commercials. The game has become perverted to accommodate the advertisers.
I really don’ care if they stand, squat, or lie down. They dishonor themselves, not the flag or their country.
Maybe if the Seahawks Michael Bennett paid more attention to his play, he wouldn’t have jumped offside twice in one series today helping the Titans to a touchdown.
Bah! I’m done with them.
Allow me please to make political comparisons:
1. The GOP left me; I didn’t leave the GOP.
2. The NFL left me; I didn’t leave the NFL.
Pretty damned simple, really.
BZ
NFL now stands for the Negro Football League.
So, FU*K them I say.
Zero interest, but I will watch what Jerry Jones will do if this shit happens to them.
Ha! Jerry was a coward just like the rest of them.
It’s not on the players anymore.
It’s on the owners who don’t demand better of their employees.
If you wear a uniform, you represent your employer.
UPS, USAF, FEDEX, NYPD, NFL. Whatever.
If you perform an activity while in uniform that reflects negatively on the organization, you should be removed from that uniform.
If someone does something that the organization doesn’t feel is wrong and you do,,, shame on you if you continue to support that organization.
I now call them the National Anthem-Disrespecting Football League.
And I call this Black Sunday the 24th.
“The day the NFL died.”
BZ
I turned it off when the Rams protested against the Raiders. Glad they left town,
Agree with everything you posted BZ. The NFL just shit in their own nest; big time. Would like to see the fan base, which tends to be conservative in nature, boo these ass clowns out of their own stadiums. These yahoos don’t realize who actually pay their salaries. When the fans stop caring the jig is up and they can kiss all that money they make goodbye. Time to boycott the NFL until they can get their high priced thugs under control.
Here’s just one reaction from Sunday:
http://deadline.com/2017/09/redskins-sunday-night-football-ratings-nfl-protests-star-trek-discovery-donald-trump-nbc-1202176141/
;Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Down Again On Day Of Player Protests.
It’s not simply “begun.” It is CONTINUING.
BZ
I must admit that I support the players right to protest and as long as noone kneels 1 yrd before the endzone during the game because the opponents fans start to sing star spangeled banner I dont see why their employers should care. It’s not that they are pissing on the flag….
But what the Fuck? The 9/11 shoes and the decal ? That is a no go ?
OK… In those cases the NFL decides while the kneeling is more of a club owner thing… Nevertheless. In the end it is crazy….
Unfortunately the last paragraph ruined your otherwise good post for me…. too much alex jones for me….
You let me know, sir, how it all goes for you when all of this unsustainable gurp collapses. I simply hope you don’t live in what I term a major American rat cage.
BZ
You should pull your head out of your ass, this is exactly what’s going on. Get off disgracebook and open your eyes.
I thought it was just a few that wouldn’t stand for the Flag. Now that this weekend has past it looks more like an epidemic. Can’t believe the Jags stood for the English anthem but knelt during ours (USA). I won’t be watching the NFL.
There should be a Bond Fire party where we all can all bring our NFL attire.
9/25/17
I continue to say: they can do whatever their contract allows. But just as they are free, I am equally free to write what I wish and ignore what I wish. I may vote with my feet and my considered dollars — or lack thereof.
BZ
Trump has exposed the blood sucking cockroaches in America, and for that, he’s got my back until the end! Maybe this will be the tipping point for the REAL slaves and disadvantaged…working America! I for one could care less what the NFL does from here on out, I’m done. Facebook is the libreal snakes head….FUCK ZUCKERBERG and his socialist propaganda too!!!
Albert, a line has been drawn. I submit that I am merely responding to a line that I did NOT myself draw.
But I’d damned well better draw it now.
BZ
From this day forward I will no longer watch, purchase tickets for events of the NFL, their teams or venues. Additionally, I will also no long support any sponsor of said leagues, their teams or venues including, but not be limited to, merchants, manufacturers, organizations, or vendors of licensed league products.
Signed
A Disgruntled Vietnam Veteran
I am with you sir.
BZ
NFL is dead to me forever …Fuck you Goodell
Both of my grandfathers were decorated combat veterans in the Second World War. They are both resting under that flag. My father is a combat veteran of the Korean War, and I and my brother are armed forces veterans. It infuriates me to watch these poorly educated, overpaid idiots dishonor the flag that so many have sacrificed for. I’m done with the NFL, at least in it’s current configuration. I will not watch their games, and I will not patronize their sponsors. You listening, FedEx?
Bless your family for their sacrifices.
BZ
Cancelled Sunday Ticket, called my team and told them to go to hell.
Now that’s someone who removes their cash where their philosophy is. Or isn’t.
BZ
Why don’t these traitorous kneelers go and take a dump in a National Cemetery. .. …that’s what they’re doing with this protest. I’m giving my gear to Goodwill and watching NASCAR! I might get called a Redneck, but that’s where the true Patriots are!
A fed up Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom Vet.
Anton, you did the duty you perceived was required. You felt a sense of duty and obligation. How many feel that way now? How many feel that their freedoms really are, truly, free — requiring no sacrifice?
Which is infinitely more than others your age, I suspect, did.
BZ
Totally agree! Making millions to play and then protesting the anthem : Dude that ain’t cool at all !!!
If the 1/2 a nitwit population woke up and stopped paying $150 for a ticket, $30 to park, $16 for a hotdog & beer and stayed home for a few games, things would change pretty fast. Monday & Thursday night football use to be free All the fans do is pay pay pay and get raked over the coals. These players in the off season are playing with their 14kt gold Xboxes in their mansions and laughing at the fool fans that pay their salaries with the outrageous prices at the stadium. Oh, and don’t forget the PSL that got crammed in your ass was just another way to extract money from you goofies that paid it
I would donate my gear to a veterans charity, but I think they have enough toilet paper. Let’s organize a national NFL gear bonfire.
I see that the ‘hero’ Villanueva has apologized for throwing his teammates under the bus.
That didn’t take long.
How is it that an Army Ranger, decorated Bronze Star, 3 tours in Afghanistan apologizes for showing respect for the flag? I have read opinions that he was somehow ‘coerced’. How does one coerce an Army Ranger? Who knows.
I did think, now, finally someone has the courage of his convictions and is not afraid to show it. That perhaps this will stiffen the spines of others, maybe even be the beginning of a counter movement, so to speak.
Should have known better.
Nation of Sheep, indeed.
Let them protest all they want to on their own time but the fact they are being facilitated and coddled by owners and league alike makes it plain where THOSE allegiances lie. Once again the adults have left the room…
Nation of Sheep indeed.
Never did watch them losers running around chasing a ball my dog was much better at it. Maybe if Isis went and blew up those players maybe then they would appreciate what my Grandfathers have done for this Great Country! Donald Trump is the Man when he said fire them but the bosses has no balls! USA and our Flag are great and if you don’t think so then get the Fuck Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Long long time Seahawk fan, Navy Vet, I have thrown away all seahawk items and will NEVER watch again. My Seahawk country flag is in the trash. They crossed the line. With my son deployed to the Middle East, I say how dare the SOB’s dishonor America, flag, citizens and our military. I’m Hispanic and don’t buy the systemic racism they claim. We have our problems but that’s what make us a country. We are not some mythical utopia that does not exhist. If it’s so bad…leave!
It is coming and this stuff is just the beginning of it all. Real Americans you will have to take a stand against those who want to destroy the America our forefathers fought and died for in all our wars. The left is set on destroying the Constitution and our country. Be strong and never give in even if it cost you your life. You are taking a stand for your families, children and grandchildren. America is still the greatest country in the world and worth fighting for. God Bless
Your article was brilliant. Thank you. I started my boycott black Sunday when I seen Alejandro alone in the tunnel. Although he later apologized, I thought it was wrong for my team to even ask him to do it. Thanks again!
Well, Ron, it hasn’t stopped. As of the October 1st weekend, dozens more NFL players took knees, etc.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/10/01/nfls-week-4-sees-more-kneeling-during-national-anthem.html
The NFL wants to keep playing this game? I can dig it. Saves me both time AND money.
#GoToHellNFL
BZ
FUCK THE NFL 4-EVER!