NFL = NEW FAR LEFT!
More NFL teams renamed: Oakland Traitors, Baltimore Cravens, Buffalo Bolsheviks, Green Bay Pinkos, Washington Red Guards, Los Angeles Chekists, Jacksonville Jacobins.
The Dallas Cowgirl Pussies!
Posted on 10/19/2017 6:02:39 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett said that before NFL players and the league can move forward with their conversations about working together on social causes, the issue of Colin Kaepernick's unemployment must be addressed.
"I think the first step to even being able to even have a conversation is making sure that Colin Kaepernick gets an opportunity to play in the NFL," Bennett said Wednesday. "I think before we even negotiate anything about whether we sit, whether we stand [during the national anthem], it should be a negotiation about opening up the doors for Colin Kaepernick and giving him an opportunity again, because I feel like through everything, that's been lost.
"All of us are having an opportunity to be able to speak to our employers, but to think about the guy who started everything not to be able to have a voice at this moment, it just doesn't seem very right to me."
Bennett said he spoke with some of the players who attended the NFL meetings on Tuesday in New York; he was unable to be there because the Seahawks were practicing that day. Kaepernick was brought up during the meetings, according to Bennett, but there wasn't much discussion about him.
"I don't think we can work alongside of them until we address that issue," Bennett said. "I think the issue with Kaepernick is the start to a conversation. If they want us to be open to what they want, the dialogue, then that's something that needs to be on the table right there."
Bennett and many other players, including Seahawks teammate Richard Sherman, believe that Kaepernick has remained unsigned because of his decision not to stand for the national anthem last season, while he was with the San Francisco 49ers.
"If you look at the quarterbacks playing in the NFL right now, out of the backups, I can't name one better than him," Bennett said.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday that he believes players should stand for the national anthem. Bennett, though, said he plans to resume sitting going forward.
Bennett began sitting for the anthem at the start of the preseason and did so through Seattle's first two regular-season games. The Seahawks and Tennessee Titans remained in the locker room during the anthem before their game in Week 3, which came two days after President Donald Trump made critical comments about NFL players who protest during the national anthem. Bennett and several other Seattle defensive linemen sat before the team's game in Week 4, then all the Seahawks stood the following week, which defensive end Frank Clark said was in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Bennett was critical of the stance taken recently by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who said any of his players who don't stand for the anthem will not play. Bennett called that "crazy" and "inconsiderate of a person being a human being."
"It reminded me of the Dred Scott case: You're property, so you don't have the ability to be a person first," Bennett said. "I think that in this generation, I think that sends the wrong message to young kids and young people all across the world that your employer doesn't see you as a human being, they see you as a piece of property, and if that's the case, then I don't get it. I just don't get why you don't see us as human beings first."
This is what you get if you let a Union in.
NFL = NEW FAR LEFT!
More NFL teams renamed: Oakland Traitors, Baltimore Cravens, Buffalo Bolsheviks, Green Bay Pinkos, Washington Red Guards, Los Angeles Chekists, Jacksonville Jacobins.
The Dallas Cowgirl Pussies!
Why is he demanding Kaepernick be signed by a NFL team, when he'd comparing the NFL to an antebellum slave plantation?
Seahawks DE Michael Bennett: Jerry Jones Threat to Sit Kneelers ‘Reminded Me of the Dred Scott Case
Unless Colin had his larynx removed, he still has a voice.
He just doesn't have that cushy multi-million dollar platform to spout his nonsense from anymore.
>> figured out how to stop quarterbacks from running wild (basically they use a “spy”)<<
One DC said “watch the stripes.” If left or right, he will throw that way. If straight, he will run.
Works in college but not in the NFL. And it can’t be untaught.
The Lingerie League came out with a formal statement stating all players will stand and respect the flag during the anthem.
God love ‘em all.
now long live MLB!...LOL
fantastic!
I posted yesterday that this was going to come up.
Time for the team owners to go Galt and say to the “players”, Adios boys!
can the nfl get any dumber?
do fans really want them to get involved in social issues?
doesn’t this whole colin thing and fans boycotting already answer the question that a portion of their fans don’t want social issues addressed by their sports entertainment?
what social issues would nil get involved in? which side of the issue would they take? they will create more mess. i guess the NFL is really wanting to commit suicide.
But I think the real reason owners don't want this guy is because of all the baggage he brings with him. They don't want the turmoil and drama on their teams. They are not obligated to hire him just because he chose free agency.
Just look at all the stuff that the NFL is trying to get control of now. Or maybe I should say, look at all crap the protestors have brought down upon the NFL.
This can all be traced back to Krapinhispants and his radical islamic girlfriend. Even his parents have disowned him because of his disrespectful, antisocial behavior.
And now he is suing for "collusion" by the NFL owners because none of them will hire him. Good luck with that. There is no law against "collusion", as the political enemies of Trump are starting to find out. Who would hire him? Who would play him? No one in their right mind.
If I made demands on my employer and quit and them sued because no one else would hire me, I would never be hired for any job again.
Free agency means he's "free". He's just not bright enough to know he's already shut the door from returning to the league himself. His own doing. Take responsibility for his own mistakes and failures.
But he's not smart enough to have figured that part out.
Send the Kap to Green Bay. They need a quarterback.
Not that I care or anything, but has Colin K even been working out, staying in shape, and doing whatever it is NFL QBs are supposed to be doing in order to be NFL QBs?
Here’s my idea on the demonstrating at games:
Have a period when players that want to place their bodies in positions of protest on the field can do so.
Have another period when the National Anthem is played. Only players that want to show respect for our country will be allowed on the field.
Who needs a locker room drama queen as a distraction?
Good idea!
‘give them an inch and they’ll take a mile’.
Never giving the inch likely would have nipped this fiasco in the bud.
Michael is a racist troublemaker. Might be best if he was benched or maybe even given his walking papers.
And pays him (in my best Dr. Evil voice) 1 Billion dollars!
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