Posted on 09/03/2017 2:18:19 AM PDT by topher
Cleveland police and emergency services unions have declined an invitation from the NFL's Cleveland Browns to hold an American flag for the team's season opener after some Browns players knelt for the national anthem during a preseason game.
EMS union president Daniel Nemeth told Fox 8 Cleveland on Friday that the offer to participate in a pregame ceremony sounded great until a dozen Browns players refused to stand for the anthem, in support of free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
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Police and EMS are different. And they are standing up for their country and reject what the NFL Cleveland Browns are doing...
HooRay !!!
He played in Cleveland but for the team that is now called the Baltimore Ravens...
Back at em! .....Good on the Blues!
It’s about time some union workers see what seems obvious.
They should have fired those A-holes. Someone has to stand up to this crap and stand up for our country. Cowards.
How about they stop watching the browns on TV and buying tickets to the games as well? Hit them where it hurts...the wallet!
JoMa
Leftists always and eventually kill their goose ...
I believe the Cleveland players all stood for the national anthem at their next game after Jim Brown publicly called them out on it, too.
The NFL should make “don’t be a dick” part of the contract.
Better yet, have TV revenue be a factor in player compensation. If viewers go up, they get more. If less, they get less. The players themselves would deal with people who hurt their paychecks.
In my career I worked for seven major companies. I have no doubt that if I had brought even a hint of controversy or scandal to any of them I’d have been shown the door. Instantly. Companies are concerned about their image. An NFL franchise is an entertainment company. Why do they allow their entertainers to bring down bad publicity on them. Bad publicity hurts sales. Showing disrespect to half the audience while wearing the team uniform is damaging. This isn’t a free speech case. These people do not represent themselves when they wear the uniforms, they represent the team/corporation. Come on, owners, show some guts.
I guess these Browns players are “down with the struggle”, forgetting that plenty of White people struggle every day, especially now in Texas and Lousiana, and they will be in about 1/3 of the country if that gasoline pipeline does not open back up soon.
This is a real simple fix. No one attends a Browns game- stadium empty- no one tune in to a Browns game- Sponsor rapidly quit buying air time. Stadium vendors quit. Browns owner is in deep doo doo. Browns owner fire all of his ungrateful Africans
As soon as a player kneels down, the music should stop and the stadium announcer should begin to recite The Lord’s Prayer.
He’ll probably lose his job, but boy would it ever throw a dose of confusion into the protestors.
Someone should remind those douchebags that they’re playing for the NATIONAL Football League and respecting the NATIONAL anthem of the NATION in question kind of goes with the job.
At some point the NFL Owners need to turn around in their Luxury Boxes and LOOK OUTWARD towards the people paying their way, and see what skin color their fan base is.
There are many, many billions of dollars at stake for them, and they’re about to get a HUGE DOSE of justice coming to them.
NFL and their spoiled little brats, (who happen to be about 80+ percent black) can all kiss my hairy white ass.I’ll watch College Football and Golf.
To some degree, they actually have a “don’t be a duck” rule. They are just to gutless to enforce it throughout the league.
It's already happening. Many fans who stayed loyal in spite of laughably bad teams for the past few years have finally said "enough".
It's just too much that so many players don't respect the values of those who until now never left them.
Why do we need a pregame ceremony? People watch to see the game.
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