Sometimes we could even justify the outrageous cost of going to a game.
But eventually we were driven away when football died out and was replaced by Thugball.
And it just keeps getting worse every game, every year.
Posted on 10/01/2017 7:53:05 AM PDT by Dave346
Against the backdrop of President Trump’s latest tweet urging NFL players to stand for the national anthem, three members of the Miami Dolphins took a knee during the national anthem and the New Orleans Saints knelt, then rose to their feet before Sunday morning’s game in London’s Wembley Stadium.
The Saints, as quarterback Drew Brees had promised in a tweet, emulated the Dallas Cowboys, who last week took a knee with owner Jerry Jones, then stood for the anthem. “As a way to show respect to all, our #Saints team will kneel in solidarity prior to the national anthem & stand together during the anthem.”
The Saints linked arms, with Adrian Peterson holding his hands in prayer. On the other sideline Julius Thomas, Michael Thomas and Kenny Stills chose to kneel. Dolphins players did not link arms as so many others teams have done. Many players on both sides placed their hands over their hearts.
A little over 24 hours earlier, President Trump had tweeted at NFL players over the anthem, writing: “Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!”
Fox Sports showed the anthem, sung by Darius Rucker, although it was unclear whether the network would do the same for its 1 p.m. EDT kickoffs. Last week, Sports President Eric Shanks had indicated the network would revert to the usual practice of selling that time to advertisers. The anthem is typically only shown on telecasts on the Thursday night kickoff game and before the Super Bowl.
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What they actually did was upsurp Britains law....they are NOT citizens there so had ‘no right to protest’ on their soil.
> What sign of disrespect did they show for “ God Save the Queen”? <
None. Somebody probably told them the song was about Obama.
The NFL players seem to have brainstormed at least 10 different ways to protest right before kickoff.
At this point I don’t even think most of them even know what they are protesting against!
When they line up with their Passport, to re-enter the USA, - tell them they’ll have to pass at least a 5 year background check, to address the elevated security risk they now pose. However, please feel free to roam the rest of the World while you wait. Maybe you’ll enjoy trying to demonstrate in some other Countries on your own time and dime!
I’m a Purdue alumni. Drew Brees was revered in West Lafayette.
It’s sad to see that he has tarnished his legacy forever.
We have a tradition that shows unity and respect for all. We remove our hats and stand when our national anthem is played.
We the people know what this is about
Thats sufficient
But eventually we were driven away when football died out and was replaced by Thugball.
And it just keeps getting worse every game, every year.
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The tv stays off in my mansion for the 2nd year
I think you are right. I keep asking myself, what would get me to start watching again. I don’t know. If they stop the kneeling, I don’t know if I can forget that they hate their own country and us by extension. I think a new league could do well overnight. The people they cut every year are within a whisker of being good enough. Some people they cut could have been superstars if given a few years to develop. I have always thought that football needed a minor league system for those people. There are people like Kurt Warner all over the place. Tom Brady, too. People who no one thought much of coming out of college, and with a little development, became hall of famers.
So, anyway, I might have to wait for a new league. Not sure 3 weeks of no kneeling would do it. And we don’t even have that.
I was a Saints fan for 40 years.
When Americans decided to rise to their feet ‘for Britain’s national anthem’.... ... they understood that were they to remain kneeling they would be regarded by their London hosts as boorish graceless ignorant clods - which, in fact, they are, with respect to their own anthem.
A national anthem can be a national anthem or an opportunity for self-expression, but not both. And, if this is yet one more thing that Americans can no longer agree on, if a people lack the minimal social glue to rise reflexively when the band strikes up the first bars of “O-oh, say, can you...”, you have to wonder whether anything remains to bind us together at all.
(Mark Stein)
(P.S. Blacks are creating divisions because they don’t want to be united as a nation.)
The NFL will keep right on going, just with fewer fans.
This issue decided now, but the NFL doesn’t realize it.
It doesn’t matter what the players do now. The die is cast.
Miami police should stop escorting the Dolphins - full stop.
A couple Trump tweets and two sentences in a speech ripped the lid off the crony-capitalist, elitist, leftist, mainstream media money machine that is the NFL. It was dry tinder waiting for a match.
Plenty of things to do this Sunday - none of which will involve watching the NFL.
Useful idiots.
The rich NFL brats just don’t get it.
The NFL has been exposed as supporters of BLM which is nothing more than a police-hating terrorist group.
Kenny Stills grew up 5 minutes from where I live. His father was an NFL player. He grew up rich and half white, like Krapperdick. There must be some kind of syndrome for people in that situation who suddenly encounter ghetto culture in a sports environment. They identify with the thugs, then have to prove themselves by being even more black than the thugs. Sadly, they don't try to make the thugs less thuggish and lead by example of what blacks can accomplish.
When a small group like this tosses a temper tantrum, basically equivalent to falling on the floor kicking and screaming like a young child, I think it’s a mistake to ask the question if there’s anything to hold this nation together.
We’re 330 million strong. There are only hundreds of these players in the nation.
Most citizens think these people are ignorant fools.
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