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NFL Should Drop National Anthem, Embrace Change
Deadspin ^ | June 8, 2020 | Rpd Parker

Posted on 06/08/2020 11:47:11 AM PDT by C19fan

The NFL says it is sorry.

The same league that pushed back and punished Colin Kaepernick for his peaceful protest against police brutality and social injustice now wants to join in and help the same cause.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: badell; clickbait; football; goodell; kaepernick; nationalanthem; nationalfelonleague; nfhell; nfl; nofansleft; race
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To: C19fan

Better yet. I’m just dropping the NFL from my viewing list. Same for MLB.

My sports viewing list is dwindling down to Poker, Cornhole, and maybe the odd Little League Baseball game.


61 posted on 06/08/2020 12:26:46 PM PDT by Ratman0823 (Today's news is all about the Leftist's "narrative". If it doesn't fit, the sheeple don't see it.)
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To: C19fan

As long as people love tailgating and boozing it up together on a Sunday afternoon, support for the NFL will continue with the white cucks. Forty five year old males will continue to wear NFL jerseys to Buffalo Wild Wings.


62 posted on 06/08/2020 12:32:35 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Systemic racism doesn't exist, but systemic stupidity is thriving.)
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To: max americana

Unfortunately, since I live in Kansas, there will be even more Chefs fans around, sine you can add the new bandwagon fans.


63 posted on 06/08/2020 12:36:38 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Systemic racism doesn't exist, but systemic stupidity is thriving.)
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To: C19fan

I stopped watching and never looked back. Friends caved and told me to come back but I told them I wasn’t interested anymore. They have actually said I was right to never come back. There ae plenty of things to do with Sundays. You will see you have life again.


64 posted on 06/08/2020 12:41:02 PM PDT by bc42875
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To: LRoggy

I was going to suggest they replace it with “The Internationale” but I like your idea better.


65 posted on 06/08/2020 12:45:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan
Where in the hale did we get so many limp-wristed, spineless people and organizations in this country?

If I were China and/or Russia right now, I would think this is a great time to pounce on the US, because our political, military and business leaders would all fall on bended knee and start crying and apologizing for being so mean to Black Loud Mouths and Antifa and not hard enough on law enforcement.

All of them so embarrassed to be white. What a bunch of weenies. What's happened to this country?

66 posted on 06/08/2020 12:49:16 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: max americana

When I boycott, I boycott and put my money where my mouth is unlike some Freepers.
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You’re our towering symbol of virtue while the rest of us walk through the swampland of mediocrity.


67 posted on 06/08/2020 12:52:17 PM PDT by Valk Rider
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To: C19fan

What’s a NFL?


68 posted on 06/08/2020 12:56:58 PM PDT by matt04
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To: max americana

KC won the Superb owl?


69 posted on 06/08/2020 12:59:14 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: dhs12345
"Some people still watch it including Freepers."

I pleaded guilty to this.

I convinced myself 'it was only a few kneelers" and the rest of the players supported standing at the National Anthem'

Well, come this fall and when ALL the players kneel(or get the Brees treatment) I will be doing something more meaningful. Like watching "Three Stooges ' reruns.
70 posted on 06/08/2020 1:00:52 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

I trickled in and watched the 4th quarter of few games, for the last few years that was the extent of it for me.

Now I don’t even feel like doing that anymore.


71 posted on 06/08/2020 1:02:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kingu

THEY knew there would be a backlash of fans not attending games, that is where the false flag Covid 19 came in. It provided the time for looting and protesting, it killed off the intended targets of old people, and it was totally anticipated by the NFL. There is a HUGE bank job going down, a tube shot into the engine room of America.

Of course viewership will be off, of course attendance will be off. People don’t have the money, THEY will say. People are afraid of getting sick, THEY will say. PEOPLE ARE RACIST they will say.


72 posted on 06/08/2020 1:04:13 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: C19fan

“When we reach the time when, indeed, that national anthem does reflect the life for all people in this country, the NFL can add it back. And you can bet, there wouldn’t be a resistance”

Idiots. They think when they establish their liberal utopia, there won’t be resistance. How many will they have to kill? There will always be disagreement about their version of utopia until only one person is alive.


73 posted on 06/08/2020 1:06:03 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: alternatives?

well, stalin killed 20 million Russians to make communism work.

that would be a good place to start doing the math...


74 posted on 06/08/2020 1:12:19 PM PDT by QualityMan ( Mr. President, we have your back.)
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To: dfwgator

Ironically, our generation may be the last where fathers took their sons to see the games, encouraged them to join the local Pop Warner league, then junior and high school and hoped they got a scholarship to go to college.

Today’s moms want them to play soccer and forbid their sons from playing for fear of getting brain damage.

Kneeling or not, football as we know it, is dying.

It will be “Futball”
And their will be damned few mourners!


75 posted on 06/08/2020 1:14:36 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: qaz123

Why on earth would Drew’s wife step into this mess? He should have stood up for what he believes in. Kapernick sure does as twisted as his beliefs are. I imagine Drew has gone down a lot in people’s mind. What a wimp.


76 posted on 06/08/2020 1:15:45 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY)
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To: shotgun

I’d recommend they return to the no anthem agenda——this from a long time NFL fan with a hot team I don’t want to abandon. They’re lots of us. I suspect the anthem was re-instituted sometime after 9/11.

The anthem, kneeling, etc. will create more disharmony in sports, which should be absent of politics.


77 posted on 06/08/2020 1:17:39 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: C19fan

A lot of FReepers are in denial about what the NFL has become and where it is going. They are like guys trying to save a doomed relationship with a woman they can’t let go of: “Just because she said we should be free to date other people - that doesn’t mean it’s over...does it?”


78 posted on 06/08/2020 1:23:54 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: C19fan
The NFL was an entirely corrupt organization from day one. A hypocritical buffer for mob gambling operations that corrupts everything it touches especially colleges with football programs.

The NFL should be dismantled. Period.

79 posted on 06/08/2020 1:28:15 PM PDT by Salman (If the Democrats can parlay this into a win in November, Charles Manson is finally vindicated.)
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To: C19fan

Keep playing it,maybe the idiots will pull a muscle kneeling down


80 posted on 06/08/2020 1:30:41 PM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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