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Dolphins owner Steve Ross now wants players to stand for anthem...[he then LIES about Trump!]
Sun Sentinel ^ | 10/8/17 | Chris Perkins

Posted on 10/09/2017 1:38:55 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

.....owner Steve Ross, who had three players — wide receiver Kenny Stills, safety Michael Thomas and tight end Julius Thomas — kneel during the national anthem prior to last week’s game said Sunday he wished they would stand for the anthem. The trio ended up standing in the tunnel during the anthem and running onto the field afterward.

Coach Adam Gase implemented a policy Sunday requiring players to stand for the national anthem. Those who don’t wish to stand must stay in the locker room or in the tunnel.

Ross, who spoke about 90 minutes before the Dolphins’ 16-10 victory over Tennessee and the national anthem, said President Donald Trump has changed the focus of anthem conversation from social injustice issues to patriotism, so it’s better now for the players to stand.

“He’s changed that whole paradigm of what protest is,” Ross during his CommUnity Tailgate gathering at Hard Rock Stadium before Sunday’s home opener against Tennessee.

“And I think it’s incumbent upon the players today, because of how the public is looking at it, to really stand and really salute the flag.”

Ross said “whenever you’re dealing with the flag you’re dealing with something different” but he remains supportive of what Dolphins players did last season when Stills, Michael Thomas, former running back Arian Foster and former linebacker Jelani Jenkins chose to kneel during the national anthem....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: billionaire; fail; nfl; tds
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To: Gargantua
Amen.

21 posted on 10/09/2017 5:41:57 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Hollywood, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It’s people like Ross that have convinced me to stop carrying the water for the uber-wealthy when it comes to taxes.

I’m with whoever (maybe even Bernie) on this. Let’s hit them with a new tax bracket and make them sell some of their paintings and estates. If they HATE AMERICA, given where they are financially, then it’s time to bring them down a few notches.


22 posted on 10/09/2017 5:43:30 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: SoFloFreeper

The NFL could stop this anti-white anti-American display very easily but they choose not to.

NFL: Negros, Felons, and Liberals.


23 posted on 10/09/2017 6:06:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

No matter what they do now it doesn’t change anything
Their real attitudes have been revealed

Maybe an intense sensitivity training for a couple of weeks are the real facts but even then it won’t matter

These idiots have been brainwashed to hate whitey from the cradle through school and nightly from the MSM
NOTHING will change that now PERIOD

Be damned if I can see how people will still support professional sports dominated by their types


24 posted on 10/09/2017 6:18:41 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Gene Eric

Are they turning their back on Soros now?


25 posted on 10/09/2017 8:05:18 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: SoFloFreeper

Ross and Gase are trying to have it both ways: telling players they must stand, but if they don’t want to they must stay in the locker room or in the tunnel. That is a cop-out and as far as I am concerned, is still being disrespectful. GTH NFL.


26 posted on 10/09/2017 8:33:47 AM PDT by falcon99
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