Posted on 09/25/2017 9:45:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
NBC sports reporter Bob Costas assumed the role of political commentator Monday when he praised Colin Kaepernick and called out President Donald Trump on CNN’s “New Day.”
“It’s very clear that there’s almost no one in the NFL who wants to support or rationalize the tone and content of President Trump’s remarks,” he said. “I hope others follow Kapernick’s lead. Not in some of the naive political statements he’s occasionally made, but getting involved in the community and actually doing things. Which many NFL players already do, but it’s just not spotlighted.”
Costas said he supported the decision by the Pittsburgh Steelers to stay in the locker room during the national anthem to avoid putting political pressure on their players.
“I was okay with it and I think what Mike Tomlin said, the coach of the Steelers made a lot of sense. We don’t want our players to have to choose. They may feel one way they may feel another, they may be apolitical. So we’ll stay off,” Costas said.
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Exactly!
You nailed it on the head!
Disrespecting our flag and anthem is corrosive to our nation.
For the football league that purports to be for OUR nation, that’s unacceptable.
The league should have nipped this in the bud last year.
They have not and it is spreading.
President Trump was right to call them out.
The New England Pussyhats need a name change.
Yeah, all 4', pompous-ass, 9" of him.
The coverage of the Olympics will be unwatchable with Costas hosting.
Don’t some of the thugs already have to do community service? Why would this be a change?
Costas is a d***, albeit a short one.
Costas is anti -Constitution and anti - Second amendment.
He is a POS.
5.56mm
Trump sure has a way of making everyone expose themselves as to who and what they really are.
What is CNN or NFL?
he certainly went off half-cocked
Just another leftist jerk. Costas is a jackass among other things and certainly not very American.
What'll be left when the maniacs and their enablers are through? We all salute the UN flag? And another point....how many of these NFL defectives (in terms of patriotism and appreciation) got a free education they weren't really qualified for? How many people sitting in those stands, paying money that makes them millionaires had to forgo college or go hopelessly in debt to get the education the NFL mob go for free? How many didn't get accepted at the school of their choice because a less qualified affirmative action "student" fill that space?
My blood is boiling. It's gotten way too far. We speak out now or never.
By his own choice. He opted-out of the last year of his contract with the 49ers.
The left is coming unhinged on all fronts.
This is fun.
Why aren’t you calling for the owners to re-sign Kaepernick, Costas?
Why aren’t you asking why this isn’t happening?
same, but I had this conversation with a guy who moved down here form Chicago, and was a big union guy.
I told him about guns, immigration bathrooms, cross dressing, illegals getting welfare, etc
He had all the same position as me, but for some reason could not bring himself to get away from a party which has gone anti American.
In the end I said then why not go back up north as we are a right to work state , and we enjoy more freedom.
The weather he said, and his fat pension he gets from up north.
YES! That’s why we watch sports! To be preached at! Who cares about the games? I want to know what ALL the players and ALL the play-by-play announcers think about politics! It the only reason I watch, you know? I can’t wait to be reminded of politics! Please don’t let me forget! Not even for a couple of hours!
It’s not about Trump. It’s that the bastards hate the country. FU.
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