Posted on 08/22/2017 6:56:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Several Cleveland Browns players made the decision to kneel during the national anthem.
Twelve players from the organization kneeled and prayed during the anthem Monday night against the New York Giants, according to ESPN.
Safety Jabrill Peppers told the media, “There’s a lot of racial and social injustices in the world that are going on right now. We just decided to take a knee and pray for the people who have been affected and just pray for the world in general.”
Protesting is the hottest thing in the streets these days, but perhaps the Browns players should spend a shade more time protesting their pathetic performance on the field. Why is Peppers even protesting at all? He’s a rookie hasn’t done a single thing of note in the NFL, and has yet to play a meaningful second.
The Browns can’t find time to study the playbook or figure out a way to score touchdowns, but they have no problem taking a knee for the national anthem.
I’m really getting sick and tired of these national anthem protests. Colin Kaepernick is out of the league, likely for good, but his cancerous actions are spreading like a disease. The Browns won’t win a Super Bowl, but now they can at least take home a participation trophy for dumb protests.
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NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was so much better and did not put up with stunts.
If these ungrateful, untalented clowns can’t stand for the National Anthem, they should be kept in the tunnel before the game. Only those who stand should be on the field. Owners have the right to make rules about such blatant acts of disrespect by these attention-seeking whores.
The NFL is done.
They obviously do not like being the football league of our nation.
Let them get real jobs.
The nfl gets none of my money unless it’s stolen through taxes to fund their damned stadiums.
The only team that may be worse than the J-E-T-S, and they can’t even bother to respect the National Anthem.
Jabrill? What the ‘f’ is a ‘Jabrill’?
Totally agree - in the locker room if they want to kneel and pray during the national anthem. If they’re in the tunnel, they need to be out of range of the TV cameras who will be looking for them. If a player gets on the field & kneels anyway, they can sit out the game in the locker room, regardless of who they are.
The whole point is to get the NFL to drop playing the National Anthem, altogether.
And ultimately to change the National Anthem to something more PC.
This is the start.
As someone on the internet said yesterday:
“If I want to watch a bunch of dumb guys struggle to score, I can just go to the local singles’ bar”
Meanwhile Goodell is currently in negotiations to have a 5 year contract extension being commissioner.
If just one strong owner would go to the locker room and remind these clowns that they are paid to not to represent themselves but to represent the team, the city and the country they play for.
Fines for anyone who kneels. Do it more than once, suspension.
Any player who thinks they are untouchable need only look over their shoulder at a younger player who wants their job more.
Liberals...is there anything they can’t ruin?
Hope they go 0-16 this season.
I wouldn't be surprised if they impose that rule--identical to that of the college game--very soon.
The NFL is slitting their collective throats. The former millionaires will be kneeling in the nuts and bolts aisle at Home Depot soon looking for a real screw for a paying customer.....very soon...
Little Flash A, who is not any kind of football fan, and not much on geography, as we were discussing places we might visit some day, said to me out of the blue “I want to go to Cleveland”.
I said “Cleveland? Why would you want to go to Cleveland?”
He said “To see the Browns lose.”
I have no idea where he got that from.
I don’t believe that only 11 Browns’ players kneeled. The entire Cleveland team kneels anytime they get near a football field.
These spoiled brats who've been catered to all through Jr, Sr, and college, don't deserve a single minute more of my time.
Where is Roller Derby when you need it? NFL . . . Go to Hell!
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