Posted on 10/11/2017 11:13:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive lineman Gerald McCoy, speaking on Adam Schefter's Know Them From Adam podcast, said he thinks there might "be an uproar" if NFL players are forced to stand for the national anthem.
"I don't think guys are gonna like it," McCoy said, when asked about the possible reaction from players. "I think it's gonna be an uproar if that is to happen because you're basically taking away a constitutional right to freedom of speech. If guys wanna have a, I guess you would call it a peaceful protest, I don't think it's right to take that away."
McCoy, an eight-year veteran and one of the Bucs' defensive captains, said he does not plan on kneeling during the anthem.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made it clear in a letter sent Tuesday to all 32 teams that he wants players to stand during the anthem. He did not provide specifics about how he intends to ensure it, but he wrote that it would "include such elements as an in-season platform to promote the work of our players on these core issues."
The issue will be discussed during the NFL's regularly scheduled fall meetings in New York next week.
President Donald Trump, who said last month that NFL owners should "fire" players who kneel during the anthem, tweeted early Wednesday morning:
It is about time that Roger Goodell of the NFL is finally demanding that all players STAND for our great National Anthem-RESPECT OUR COUNTRY
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...
Players are in a tough spot.
They can stand and look like Goodell’s slaves.
Or kneel and look like Bill Clinton’s interns.
NFL loses either way.
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“...because you’re basically taking away a constitutional right to freedom of speech...”
Hay uproar guy, please read this: “CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
This says nothing about what the NFL or anyone else can make rules about.
Its TOO late!! The Damage is done. This racist black protest on the workplace and the NFL condoning it has turned this season into a joke and an economic rout for the NFL. I pray the racists just walk out so they can stop getting paid. Who advises these “Son’s of Bitches” . Just WALK OUT!!PLEAZZZZZZ
Who gives a crap?
Why no criticism of the NBA which does ‘force’ it player’s to stand!
[”I don’t think guys are gonna like it,”]
If they don’t like it, they can always quit.
If they feel so strongly they should have the courage of their convictions and quit. I am dead serious.
Stop all gub mint tax breaks.
Stop all gub mint subsidies.
Stop watching.
Stop going to games.
Stop these pampered stoopids big pay checks.
Sorry ... the employer has a right to demand this of the employees. Don’t like it? Find another job.
When did people in this country stop understanding the meaning of being an EMPLOYEE?
I think part of it is the celebrity/sports worshiping culture. They think they answer to no one.
Uproar?? This ass clown still has no brain cells to look at the stands and ratings? Obviously he has concussion symptoms if he could not comprehend WHY they are being forced to stand.
Bring back the scab players! Man, that was some fun football last time that happened. Those guys were out there for love of the game, not the ridiculously large paycheck.
ask this idiot why there isn’t an uproar when they are fined for excessive celebration in the end zone. . . . .
Good. Please “uproar” and uproar some more!
“Sorry ... the employer has a right to demand this of the employees. Don’t like it? Find another job.”
The problem is that Goodall and the owners have made no such demand, then or now.
I will be reading (not viewing real-time) what happens.
And probably never will.
You have all the access to your constitutional right to freedom of speech that you want.
Just not on company hours.
Would love to see the knee-takers really show defiance; when the national anthem strikes up, they should run into the end zone and dance hip-hop for as long as it plays, then dap each other.
That’ll show you racists!
;^)
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