Posted on 10/01/2017 7:23:10 AM PDT by EdnaMode
NBC Sports commentator Bob Costas suggested Saturday that protesting NFL players should wait until "the last note" of the national anthem to take a knee.
Costas's comments came a week after NFL players locked arms to protest President Donald Trump's criticisms of those who kneel during the National Anthem.
But the veteran sports journalist told CNN's Michael Smerconish that he believed a different approach could be more effective.
"The idea of linking protests, no matter how legitimate the issue you are protesting, directly to the National Anthem is not just offensive to the love-it-or-leave-it crowd. It actually causes ambivalent feelings, at best, among many people who are sympathetic to the issue but see the anthem as representing a lot of different things, including the country's ideals and aspirations," Costas said.
"To me, perhaps the most effective thing to do would be to stand for the national anthem, but, the second the last note is struck, take a knee," he suggested.
This tactic would also, purely from a practical perspective, ensure greater exposure, Costas argued.
"Most of the time, unless it's the Super Bowl or World Series and you want to see the singer, they're in commercial during the anthem. Now, you're going to see it," he said.
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I don’t care what they do. They keep thinking they can snooker a bunch of fools into watching.
GTHNFL
Bob Costas: Stand for anthem, then take a knee
Can’t ever tell if he is standing or not.
Bob the dumbass Costa weighs and confirms once again he is a small minded intellectually inferior person.
Sure Bob.
That’ll fix it.
/s
Keep it up NFL soon they will be dispised as they can't control their employees and social media is daily killing liberal MSM memes as they start - One person is responsible for this disruption in propaganda, the great awaking and the realignment - candidate and now president Donald J Trump.
Everyday the movement he is leading is getting stronger while the MSM seems to flounder.
This needs to materialize into political legislative wins - Obamacare not being repealed and no tax cuts is going to bring this economic upturn to a screeching halt.
Well that’s a twist to the 20 or so iterations we’ve seen already to this absurd virtue signaling.
Stand for anthem then play football, forget all the political bull shit. take it outside the stadium if you want to display the stupidity.
Like I give sh!t what this idiot thinks!!!!
Costas really can't be that dense. Most effective thing to do? No, that would be the most infuriating thing to do.
The team is standing for the anthem, and the fans are thinking, "Good. No more protests." Then all of a sudden the team takes a knee.
No different than this:
There goes ol’ gungrabber Bob, stirring the pot again.
Standing then dropping to a knee will antagonize the fans even more. They know in-your-face when they see it.
What???
I actually hope now some team signs Kaepernick. Go ahead, make my day.
Glad he’s retired from the Olympics. He always seemed to arrogant. Now that seems confirmed with his NFL comments. NFL players constantly doing good deeds? When?
Anything less than standing at attention or saluting before, during, and after the anthem is just a cute attempt to show disrespect.
They cannot have it both ways - either honor the flag in the traditional way, or the SOBs can go home.
This part of the act is where the chicken runs around for a couple of minutes, unable to realize it’s head has already been severed.
Yes stand for the anthem and then play ball
If you must, pretend its the national anthem of China, Zimbabwe, North Korea or Iran or “’God Save the Queen”
Everyone stands and keeps their mouths shut for that
Start a campaign to get Costas removed. Use Liberal tactics back on them.
As for the NFL, if they think we’re stupid, they better think again. There is absolutely nothing they can do going forward to erase their duplicity and disrespect. Nothing!!
At this point they can do whatever they want. I don’t care, the masks are already off.
stand for the Anthem.....protest elsewhere
Bwahahaha.
They keep looking but will never find a way out of this mess they let the players create.
There’s only one thing that would resonate with the fans, proper behavior all the way, and it’s TOO LATE even for that.
Everyone knows the score and who is on who’s side. The players don’t like the white fans. In fact, some of them hate white people in general.
Yeah, let’s cheer for them.
Not.
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