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NFL/Vikings: Are you ready for some virtue-signaling?
American Thinker ^ | 13 Sep, 2020 | Eric Utter

Posted on 09/13/2020 5:12:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

During the Vikings home opener against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings will recognize the family of George Floyd, and will strive to bring awareness to issues of social justice. Floyd’s family will be inside U.S. Bank Stadium during the recognition, despite the fact that no fans will be allowed to attend the game. Players will wear t-shirts that read "Be the Change" on the front during pregame warmups and have the names of people who have been killed by alleged acts of racism or police brutality on the back. Players' helmets and coaches' hats will also have decals and patches sporting “social justice-related messages.” The stadium’s end zones will also trumpet the messages "It Takes All of Us" and "End Racism."

What a unique idea! How brave, outré, courageous! Nothing parroted, trite or stale here! Cutting edge, pushing the envelope stuff! What’s next, will they boldly attempt to condemn the Nazis? The abuse of animals? Abortion? Oops, sorry, had to put that last one in there for humor.

The same could be said for any professional sports team, and many college and amateur ones as well, but it’s football season and Minnesota is the state where I was born and grew up so I am singling the Vikings out. Moreover, Minneapolis is wildly liberal—and, not coincidentally-- where the current insanity all started. Maybe the Vikings were worried that the mostly peaceful rioters would burn down U.S. Bank Stadium like they have much of the rest of the city if they didn’t take a knee in their direction.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: marxism
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1 posted on 09/13/2020 5:12:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I quit watching the MFL and the kneeling black (pantload)pampers.


2 posted on 09/13/2020 5:13:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Note to the NFL: take a damn good look at that video.

VIDEOS: Black Lives Matter Mob Swarms HOSPITAL Where Deputies Were Being Treated After Being Ambushed, Threaten Police at Scene Saying ‘You’re Next’

The NFL is dead to me.

3 posted on 09/13/2020 5:15:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Idiots.


4 posted on 09/13/2020 5:16:58 AM PDT by moovova
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How cute, condescending, patronizing, pandering and thoroughly pathetic.

And after the game all the black Millionaire’s will return to their mansions they have had built in...ahem...white neighborhoods.


5 posted on 09/13/2020 5:20:11 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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No thank you


6 posted on 09/13/2020 5:20:23 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Calling a thing by its right name is the beginning of wisdom.')
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I don’t know why they are taking a knee, it would be much more suitable if they just bent over and grabbed their ankles.


7 posted on 09/13/2020 5:21:53 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Kamala tosses out race cards as fast as a Las Vegas Blackjack dealer)
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To: N. Theknow

Curse you autocorrect!

It’s millionaires not Millionaire’s!


8 posted on 09/13/2020 5:22:19 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Another patch?


9 posted on 09/13/2020 5:24:27 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I quit watching Jessie Watters last night after he said they could decapitate George Washington on the field and he would still be watching the NFL. Phuk Jessie and phuk Fox!


10 posted on 09/13/2020 5:26:04 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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Grown men (many now tattooed & pierced thugs), getting dirty rich for playing with a ball with other rich, grown men, and other men and women getting rich for talking about the rich, grown men that play with balls...that’s pro sports.

And how many American men know more about pro sports than about their childrens’ schools or neighbors or county government?

And I pay more for beer and pizza because they pay a lot to advertise on pro sports shows.

(Sorry for repetitive post.)

11 posted on 09/13/2020 5:26:19 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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Will they hand our celebratory doses of fentanyl in honor of this psychopath?


12 posted on 09/13/2020 5:27:08 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Roger Goodell and the nfl can kiss my ass and go to hell! 🤮
13 posted on 09/13/2020 5:27:36 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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That's nice.

...I'll be working on my car.

Fake News

Fake Sports

14 posted on 09/13/2020 5:28:35 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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Hey Vikings and NFL, F-you


15 posted on 09/13/2020 5:30:27 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: MtnClimber

So who cares?


16 posted on 09/13/2020 5:36:54 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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White makeup - aka clown white - should be applied in a ring around the mouths of the players to mimic George ‘Fetanyl’ Floyd’s foaming at the mouth due to a fatal overdose of drugs and to symbolize hooping - Floyd’s preferred method of storing and ingesting drugs via the back passage.

What a hero.


17 posted on 09/13/2020 5:41:11 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Wilderness Conservative

I happened to catch that show. I’m disappointed in Jesse. Now I might watch a game if they decapitated Karl Marx on the field. In fairness though,Jesse was talking about decapitating a statue of GW. Still bad.


18 posted on 09/13/2020 5:44:32 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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bump


19 posted on 09/13/2020 5:52:21 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: MtnClimber

No, go screw the pooch, again!


20 posted on 09/13/2020 6:04:57 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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