[stevio]

I didn't make the games today, my wife is there and said a lot of parents were upset. This is unusual because the guy who runs it is a state cop who is very patriotic.

[Maudeen]

Why didn’t someone just start singing it. I’m sure the crowd would have joined in.

[TexasGator]

Did you ask why?

[Bryanw92]

In the moment of silence, one person should start singing the National Anthem. Force the PC Principal to shout it down and declare, “you can’t sing that song here”.

[Robert DeLong]

This is unusual because the guy who runs it is a state cop who is very patriotic.

The order obviously came from higher up.

[TYVets]

More NFL Anti-National Anthem Crap.

More NFL National Anthem crap means fewer NFL Viewers and Ticket Sold.

[Lurkinanloomin]

A moment of silence. For what? The death of our country?
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Yep

[dp0622]

How about a moment of several thousand European descendants grabbing bats, kicking ass and taking names!!!

MAN, WTH?!?!

I know I’m considered a little under civilized and maybe coarse on this board, but WTH?!?!

There were race fights when I was growing up. The European descendants ran TOWARDS the fight, not away. And if you did run away, you might as well have moved.

[bk1000]

Mark my words, they will cease playing it at all sporting events before challenging the “protesters”. Racism, and all.

[BuffaloJack]

In my home there is no watching of football and no purchasing of products by NFL sponsors until they cut this crap out and honor America.

[xzins]

Could be he heard someone was going to sit or kneel, so he decided not to play it at all so that it wouldn’t be disrespected.

I can see that.

The NFL doesn’t deserve the lives that have been spent under that flag and that anthem. They don’t deserve having the anthem played or the flag flown.

They are men without a country.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Copy of my rant (sorry about the formatting) sent to my email contacts with a much better written rant: I call for a full boycott of the NFL and all their sponsors, but then, I NEVER watch NFL except for the Superbowl, which I now can forgo, and I don't drink beer, and I don't buy Progressive Insurance, and I'm not supposed to eat Doritos. I don't buy new motor vehicles...I wish there was something I consume that would make an economic impact. And this is the same NFL that would not sell advertising time to a firearms company at the last Superbowl. I concur with the good Colonel; time to change the channel America. MIKE < To the NFL commissioner Commissioner, I've been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium. I missed the '90-'91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it. Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins. Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they're something special! They're not! My Marines and Soldiers were! You are complicit in this! You'll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this. Yes, I know, it's their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly? I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring. I guess that's much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn't it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone? Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game! You condone it all by your refusal to act. You're just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines. I applaud those who have not. Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles. They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They don't do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it 24/7 often with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don't even have ice! Many don't have legs or arms. Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes. I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you! Time to change the channel. Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC-(ret)

[i_robot73]

Upset?

How many walked out w/ kids in tow?
Anyone paid to ask a refund?
How many kids walked off the field in opposition to the snub?

The trial balloon was floated, seeing what comes about the ‘new normal’.

[Vinnie]

To paraphrase Lincoln’s remark when meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Trump meets Kaepernick,
“So, this is the little f@#$er that started the Second Civil War”

[outofsalt]

At my daughters private school the anthem is sung a cappella by a lovely African American young lady before every game. She sings it so beautifully.

[bgill]

The parents couldn’t have been that upset if they didn’t walk out onto the 50 yard line and announce to the coach and everyone why they were taking their kid home. Oh, no, can’t embarrass the kid and the game must go on mentality. Just keep quiet and let someone else fight the good fight.

Our last kiddo graduated from public HS in 2010. Everyone, including the large number of illegals, many Iranians and half dozen blacks, stood and sang the anthem as the boy scouts raised the flag at football games. That was followed the band playing Amazing Grace. That was only 6 years ago but who knows if they’re allowed to do any of that today.

[InvisibleChurch]

Best title thread in a long time. Thx.

[GailA]

Carry a loud recorder and play this
Trump insist on National Anthem being played when told it’s to late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfe1s4HpJQ0