Agree that it is an act of cowardice.
“...Tomlin is probably doing it in the name of team unity. ...” and “forces players to choose sides”.
Respectfully, kabar - then he should walk out onto the field like a MAN, and stand up for his Country - the SAME Country that gave him the VERY OPPORTUNITY to get paid for playing a damned game - AND gave every one of those malcontent Bozos who want to kneel an opportunity to be something more than they’d EVER be in the real world that the rest of us inhabit.
If those attention whore douchebags want to make a statement, let THEM stay in the clubhouse and kneel until the National Anthem is over.
Those players who are on OUR side need to stand up and act like Men, instead of p*ssies.
F*** them. I have family who never came home, fighting for what this Country represents to the world.
These jerkoffs are pissing on the memory of every American everywhere who never came home and their grieving families who loved them.
“It forces players to choose sides.”
All it would take is for one Steeler to value their country above their team and leave the tunnel for the field and the national anthem. That would have a profound effect on the rest of his teammates.
What are they going to do? Fine him?
I prefer the Jerry Jones order to stand for the Anthem or get fired.
The irony of having a “unity ceremony” in the locker room as a form of protesting the Anthem’s innate ceremony of unity is too rich. The notion of these wife beaters, girlfriend abusers, serial impregnating, drunken, gangbanging, murdering, assaulting, gun toting, ‘roid raging prima donnas who can’t control the impulse to destroy the careers of others a la Vontaze Burfict and those of his reckless ilk, protesting violence is too laughable for even a late night talk show joke. It took one actual man, Alejandro Villanueva, whose CV puts theirs to eternal shame, to demonstrate courage and quietly and eloquently shove it down their panty waist throats. And to cloak their cowardice in a prayerful posture is beyond the pale for these mutts who wouldn’t recognize a church if it pounded them from behind.
The irony of having a “unity ceremony” in the locker room as a form of protesting the Anthem’s innate ceremony of unity is too rich. The notion of these wife beaters, girlfriend abusers, serial impregnating, drunken, gangbanging, murdering, assaulting, gun toting, ‘roid raging prima donnas who can’t control the impulse to destroy the careers of others a la Vontaze Burfict and those of his reckless ilk, protesting violence is too laughable for even a late night talk show joke. It took one actual man, Alejandro Villanueva, whose CV puts theirs to eternal shame, to demonstrate courage and quietly and eloquently shove it down their panty waist throats. And to cloak their cowardice in a prayerful posture is beyond the pale for these mutts who wouldn’t recognize a church if it pounded them from behind.