Posted on 11/01/2018 7:12:12 AM PDT by Kazan
The inmates really are running the asylum in the NFL.
It's amazing any coach would put up with this garbage. Rivera and the owner of the team certainly can stop this punk from protesting and should.
But even if Rivera did have an issue with it, Reid says he’d continue to do what he believes is right by kneeling.
“Very respectfully, he doesn’t have a choice,” Reid said of Rivera’s support, via David Newton of ESPN.com. “He’s entitled to his opinion, but I know what my rights are. His family was a military family much like many of my people were in the military. My cousin just got back from Afghanistan. My mom was in the armed services. My uncle was enlisted. The list goes on.
“But when they get home they’re still black in America. They’re going to fight the same wars when they get home and still face the same things I’m talking about. So I get encouragement from my family that served in the armed forces because they agree with what I’m saying.”
Reid was one of the first players in the NFL to join Colin Kaepernick by kneeling during the national anthem as a means of shining a light on injustice in the country. While Kaepernick has yet to find a team willing to give him a job once his time with the San Francisco 49ers came to an end following the 2016 season, Reid managed to find a home with the Panthers in late September.
Reid has continued the protest in each game he’s played in Carolina since joining the team. He’s also sparred with Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins over the Players’ Coalition and what he believes is a group that “co-opted” Kaepernick’s movement.
Reid has started all four games he’s played with the Panthers. He has 24 tackles and a sack on the year.
It’s a fallacy that the anthem is only about the military. The kneelers are starting to use that as justification.
National Bore Me League. Don’t care anymore.
Sounds more like he’s squawking for attention:
“Hey, everyone! Look over here... I’m still kneeling!”
Notice how “social justice” “income inequality” “affirmative action” “diversity” “POlice brutality” and “racism” are NEVER put in quotes?
But let some white person say reverse discrimination and there come the media’s quotation marks
Sounds like a locker room cancer. Panthers should look to replace him ASAP. He is an average safety. Without melanin he wouldn’t play anything other than special teams, if that.
Dear NFL. FIX IT OR DIE.
Not a threat but an educated observation about what you pieces of S*** are bringing upon yourselves
I live in the Charlotte area and used to be a Panthers fan. I now could care less about the Panthers or the NFL in general. They have lost me forever, never going back.
I live up 77 amd I’m with you. Tedder is nothing but a liberal who’s into,it.
“he doesn’t have a choice”
He has the choice to play your a$$ or have it warm a bench!
Rivera has disappointed me, for supporting this POS
“he doesn’t have a choice”
He has the choice to play your a$$ or have it warm a bench!
Rivera has disappointed me, for supporting this POS
I’ve become so completely disconnected from the NFL that I can’t name more than 2-3 players who weren’t around five years ago when I still have half a damn about pro football. I don’t even know which teams are good and which are bad — except my local Giants, who are so awful that they make even non-sports news headlines here.
The players have become whiny, pompous, overgrown adolescents that frankly most fans can no longer stomach.
I think the ratings would be going down even if nobody was kneeling.
Here in Pittsburgh we have to put up with the whiny spectacle of a Le’veon Bell who thinks that at $880,000 a game he is underpaid.
Try some reverse psychology - tell him he must kneel.
or
Put up a little circle of yellow tape and say that is the Kneeling area.
I agree, but I also think it even goes beyond pompous, overgrown adolescents. The NFL was already facing two challenges that don’t bode well for its future: (1) demographics (kids today simply don’t have the same interest in football that their parents did); and (2) competition from other forms of entertainment (sports and non-sports).
Best idea I’ve come up with: Have his coach, fellow players, and/or sports media figures make public statements thanking him for his public protest against gun control laws that violate our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Most of the NFL is black. That’s rascist?
I quit watching games early in the season last year and admit the withdrawals were annoying.
This year the NFL has become completely irrelevant.
“Notice how “social justice” “income inequality” “affirmative action” “diversity” “POlice brutality” and “racism” are NEVER put in quotes?”
If they did, that would be like us putting God in quotes.
Maybe the Panthers could cool this situation down by hiring Rae Carruth to head the newly formed Office of Player/Baby Mama Relations.
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