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NFL condemns Trump's comments on football player protests
Reuters ^
| September 23, 2017
| Barbara Goldberg
Posted on 09/23/2017 11:07:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(Note: Strong language in paragraphs 2 and 5)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trumps call for National Football League owners to fire players who protest during the U.S. national anthem revealed an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL and its players, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Saturday.
Goodell, in a statement released a day after Trump suggested any protesting football player was a son of a bitch and should lose his job, never mentioned the president by name but made a clear reference to his remarks at a political rally.
Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities, Goodell said in the statement.....
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: blacks; football; kaepernick; patriotism; trump
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Majority of players aren’t real smart to begin with...After they lose their multi million dollar contracts,only then will they see the damage they caused themselves....
To: Alberta's Child
How ironic is it that MLB has managed to shield itself from this idiocy by having rosters filled with immigrants from Latin America who have no doubts about just how great this country is? Watch carefully, as I suspect the NFL may follow suit
I also suspect over the next few years, certain 'all-pro' won't get contract offers, while certain top college prospects fall into lower rounds in drafts for unknown reasons.
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posted on
09/23/2017 1:59:38 PM PDT
by
jimjohn
(2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
To: doug from upland
Nessa Diab, the Yoko Ono of the NFL.
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posted on
09/23/2017 2:04:48 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: jimjohn
And more NBA players are from Europe.
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posted on
09/23/2017 2:05:17 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Whats that famous quote? “ Stuck on stupid” !
Trump said what I’d bet the vast majority of fans are thinking
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posted on
09/23/2017 2:38:49 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(We voted for change, not leftover change)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/23/2017 2:40:38 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Are they saying that President Trump took a knee? LOL
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posted on
09/23/2017 2:42:36 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
To: Kickass Conservative
nf...who? nf...what? Screw’em.
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posted on
09/23/2017 4:24:18 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm not a sports fan but certainly not unaware of football. The NFL has been a huge money making machine in America for decades. It employs hundreds of thousands of people from the players to coaches, manufacturers of sports equipment, food vendors, TV advertising ,etc. It the owners of these teams have any brains they'll put a stop to this bs or lose everything they've worked for and profited from for over sixty years.
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posted on
09/23/2017 5:10:34 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: jmacusa
The only professional football game I ever attended was the Superbowl where the undefeated Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins. I believe I was 12 at the time.
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posted on
09/23/2017 5:13:17 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ok, NFL, you are insulting 50% of your fans, so I guess you don’t want Conservatives as fans. I got better things to do.
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posted on
09/23/2017 7:46:54 PM PDT
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Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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