Posted on 10/17/2017 3:44:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Indications from Tuesday's meeting between NFL owners, players, executives and NFL Players Association personnel are that all sides identified "common issues" and engaged in "productive" conversation about how to "work together to promote positive social change and address inequality" in the wake of peaceful protests across professional sports.
The meeting, which came a day after reports that the NFL would formally endorse criminal justice legislation and finance a social activism boot camp, marked a "coming together," according to the league and NFLPA. NFL Network's Judy Battista suggested the dialogue Tuesday in New York was the "best communication [there] has ever been between players and owners."
And ESPN's Jim Trotter reported that NFL owners expressed "unconditional" support to work with players in addressing social issues, "meaning there was no demand by owners that players stop kneeling" in protest during pregame national anthems.
What the meeting also signified, according to Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN America, a New York City-based organization centered on defending free speech and persecuted journalists, was a rebuke of commentary on the situation by President Donald Trump....
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So long and thanks for all the fish, NFL!
Dolphins fan, eh?
I love it. Once the NFL gives in or buys off the players once,
The players will start to kneel again to get bought off again.
On and on it will go. While the NFL continues to bottom out.
The NFL exists because of inequality, which is the result of human biodiversity. Nothing is more divisive than the draft.
Does anyone know just what these “inequality” and “social justice” issue are that they are “protesting” by showing disrespect to the anthem, the flag, police and veterans?
The Ducks do that between the second and third period of every game. At least every game I have been to, and I go to 5-6 games per season. The crowd is on its feet until they finish introducing him/her.
...............And ESPN’s Jim Trotter reported that NFL owners expressed “unconditional” support to work with players in addressing social issues, “meaning there was no demand by owners that players stop kneeling” in protest during pregame national anthems.
The foregoing sentence does not jive with owners apologizing and firing players and threatening to fire players so who is lying................not that lying is a surprise or anything like that.
Do these idiot players think they’ll bring the NFL to it’s knees(LOL) and then come out of this owning the NFL by making a Deal with the Owners
Are we going to address racial inequality in the NFL itself where blacks get 76% of the jobs. I am sick of that racism. We need affirmative action for White employees or you people are a bunch of hypocrites!! Blacks should get no more than there population percentage on each team— 11%
Please watch this video of a black police officer talking about the knee-takers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef3nzOEeXWY
So the nfl has decided it is a dnc sport. Ok, nice to know. Tax it as a political activist organization
They keep trying to convince the fans that the protests have nothing to do with the flag or the country or the military. Yet, that’s precisely the moment they have chosen to make their protest. Their unwillingness to alter the timing of their protest means they are primarily protesting the flag, no matter what they claim.
They’re protesting the necessity of the police to sometimes defend themselves from criminals. It started with Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO , who was killed while he tried to grab a police officer’s gun, minutes after robbing a convenience store.
Uh huh ...
NFL = BLM = KKK = CPUSA
Of course what else to unify under in the NFL but against President Trump. I’m unifying with all those rejecting the NFL and its anti-American charades.
Yeah, let them found their own league, with only black owners, and do whatever they want. No flags, no anthem, no Po-po providing security or traffic control.
But they also need to eschew their current salary and endorsement contracts, just to stick it to da man.
OK, who’s in!?
At the Cardinals’ last game of the season, a player came out about 45 minutes before the first pitch, stood at attention with his hand over his heart. Other players came out to put an umbrella over him, put a police officer’s vest on him. He didn’t move until the first pitch. When the Milwaukee club saw what was going on, they sent one of theirs out as well. Of course the whole thing did not make the news.
Nowadays the sin of reacting to divisive behavior is divisive. Got it.
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