Posted on 06/08/2020 4:05:17 AM PDT by knighthawk
President Trump pondered in a tweet Sunday whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s apology for not “listening” to black players when they spoke out about racism was also a green light for them to kneel during the season.
Trump has said players who knelt during the national anthem are being disrespectful to their country and flag.
“Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell’s rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?” he wrote.
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The end of the National Felons League.
Of COURSE they are ALL going to kneel!! DONT WATCH THIS CRAP!
Affirmative. I won’t be watching. Again.
They kneel and they lose me.
I hope he is aiming more in the direction of the funding, key players in this attempted takeover of America and the annihilation of them. This is petty bullsh## no one cares about right now
Lost cause. Goodell is a leftist a-hole he will be the first to
Kneel. F them.
Is it just me or does the act of Kneeling seem a bit insensitive after it was the method George Floyd was murdered? Perhaps they mean it to be symbolic for the death knell of the US?
They kneel, I walk.
I don’t understand why it’s so hard to say no political demonstrations on the field of any kind.
Employees can easily be replaced. Customers cannot.
Why wouldn’t he? Many conservatives can’t seem to give up their football addiction no matter how much leftist nonsense the NFL partakes in.
I find it comical to read posts from people on this website claiming that "they'll walk" if the players kneel.
The time to walk was four years ago, people. LOL.
Trump could “discourage” any involvement by the military at their events.
No flyovers.
No color guards.
No presence at all.
No uniforms.
The cowards will just stop playing the anthem.
NFL out of the USA.
IDIOCTRACY IS HAPPENING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES.
Let the NFL go ahead and commit suicide. Good riddance.
instead..they went Tribal....THEY COULD UNITE THE COUNTRY THIS SEASON BY SHOWING SOME RESPECT.....but most seem to hate the country that allowed them to become rich more then they want to heal the wounds of the country.....its sad....
I think players will be pariahs if they stand, instead of kneel, during the anthem, especially for the first few games. At any rate I won’t be watching.
There's a dirty little secret about these big-time sports organizations that may surprise a lot of people: These leagues don't give a sh!t about sports fans.
The whole business of big-time sports has so thoroughly saturated the market that they're increasingly catering to people who aren't even sports fans at all. That's why they've turned their events into entertainment spectacles and pushed the actual sport into the background to the point where it's almost secondary.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the NFL ... where Super Bowl commercials get more coverage than the game itself, and the lead act for the halftime show is some nitwit pop star who looks like he/she belongs on the cover of National Geographic or in the Mos Eisley cantina scene in the original "Star Wars" movie.
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