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Free speech activist: NFL, NFLPA meetings a 'rejection' of Trump's divisiveness
CBS Sports ^ | October 17, 2017 | Cody Benjamin

Posted on 10/17/2017 3:44:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Indications from Tuesday's meeting between NFL owners, players, executives and NFL Players Association personnel are that all sides identified "common issues" and engaged in "productive" conversation about how to "work together to promote positive social change and address inequality" in the wake of peaceful protests across professional sports.

The meeting, which came a day after reports that the NFL would formally endorse criminal justice legislation and finance a social activism boot camp, marked a "coming together," according to the league and NFLPA. NFL Network's Judy Battista suggested the dialogue Tuesday in New York was the "best communication [there] has ever been between players and owners."

And ESPN's Jim Trotter reported that NFL owners expressed "unconditional" support to work with players in addressing social issues, "meaning there was no demand by owners that players stop kneeling" in protest during pregame national anthems.

What the meeting also signified, according to Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN America, a New York City-based organization centered on defending free speech and persecuted journalists, was a rebuke of commentary on the situation by President Donald Trump....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: blacks; boycottnfl; football; patriotism; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
NFL owners expressed "unconditional" support to work with players in addressing social issues

So the NFL is now an official Social Justice organization.

41 posted on 10/17/2017 5:00:48 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Respecting the flag and anthem is now divisive....right gotcha..../sarc


42 posted on 10/17/2017 5:01:02 PM PDT by xp38
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To: IronJack

I dare say a classic case of projection here


43 posted on 10/17/2017 5:01:53 PM PDT by xp38
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The NFL & NFLPA can virtue-signal all the way into bankruptcy for all I care.


44 posted on 10/17/2017 5:08:12 PM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“identified “common issues” and engaged in “productive” conversation about how to “work together to promote positive social change and address inequality””

F**k ya’ll: the only thing you should be engaged in conversation about is football.


45 posted on 10/17/2017 5:16:43 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In order to address inequality, the NFL must purge over 20 percent of its Negro players, and hire White players. Equality would be 50-50, correct?


46 posted on 10/17/2017 5:37:25 PM PDT by Fireone (Heating the tar and bagging the feathers...the People are coming to D.C.)
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To: hanamizu
At the Cardinals’ last game of the season, a player came out about 45 minutes before the first pitch, stood at attention with his hand over his heart. Other players came out to put an umbrella over him, put a police officer’s vest on him. He didn’t move until the first pitch. When the Milwaukee club saw what was going on, they sent one of theirs out as well. Of course the whole thing did not make the news.

Cardinals fan here. I looked this up online and learned something new about baseball. Apparently it is not that unusual for players to stand after the national anthem is done and try to face off against opposing players. Not sure how starting 45 minutes before game time factors in, but it may not have been related to the protests at all.

Apparently this tradition happens a lot more in the minors.

Thanks for showing me something new!
47 posted on 10/17/2017 5:48:43 PM PDT by siberianheat
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Yep and trayvon martin who was shot while attacking a neighborhood watch volunteer.

Maybe they're protesting all of the blacks murdered in Chicongo.

In reality they are just trying to shift the blame for problems of they're own making onto White society and it's not working.

48 posted on 10/17/2017 5:58:42 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We’ll see what the fans say and do


49 posted on 10/17/2017 6:06:11 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

oh, it’ll be a meeting....and in the end, the owners will have their billions in other investments. And the players will have....nothing.

no matter to me. I have found better things to do on Sunday. Much better things.


50 posted on 10/17/2017 6:08:51 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: siberianheat

This was long before the national anthem. We were puzzled about it. They did show the player (I don’t know who he was) on the big screen and it all had the appearance of something that wasn’t expected. Don’t know if it was related to the protests or not.


51 posted on 10/17/2017 7:10:10 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

I believe I’m a baseball fan now.


52 posted on 10/17/2017 8:18:39 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance, Ignorance masquerading as Intelligence)
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>> And ESPN’s Jim Trotter reported that NFL owners expressed “unconditional” support to work with players in addressing social issues

Blatant pretense obvious to everyone paying attention. Perhaps they could throw in sex-addiction therapy.


53 posted on 10/17/2017 9:22:46 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Democrats, Hollywood and the NFL never learned the first rule of holes....


54 posted on 10/18/2017 10:51:28 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See my post Number 56


55 posted on 10/19/2017 2:03:23 PM PDT by RedMonqey (` Res Ipsa Loquitor.)
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