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Chris Long on the new NFL anthem rules: ‘This is not patriotism’
Boston Globe ^
| May 24, 2018
| Mark Dunphy
Posted on 05/24/2018 3:32:27 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
The NFL is a multibillion dollar business that caters to people who are mostly pro-American, pro-military, pro-Trump, and it would look like the owners finally remembered this.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:34:04 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: MeganC
Former Patriot player. Bye bye.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:35:03 PM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: GuavaCheesePuff
Chris Long on the new NFL anthem rules: ‘This is not patriotism’ A stadium full of your fellow citizens says otherwise.
-PJ
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:35:34 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:38:05 PM PDT
by
TTFlyer
To: GuavaCheesePuff
“These owners don’t love America more than the players demonstrating and taking real action to improve it.”
Said by one of the offending players. Reminds me of the Vietnam canard “we had to destroy the village to save it”.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:40:33 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: TTFlyer
Chris Long...If you want to know what defines “patriotism” in the NFL, give respect to Pat Tillman...He defined patriotism...Not you...
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:41:18 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
reflect the owners’ fear of their bottom line
Well DUH!
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:41:55 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: Kozy
Yeah, isn’t it ironic that the NFL Patriots aren’t really patriots?
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:42:03 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
Chris Long...If you want to know what is “honor” in the NFL, then emulate what JJ Watt is doing...JJ Watt is showing honor, not you....
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:44:28 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
You’re right Chris. It’s not Patriotism.....it’a Capitalism.
The guy with the gold makes the rules. Don’t like it? Don’t play.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:44:35 PM PDT
by
schaef21
To: GuavaCheesePuff
I think there are ironies here. Namely, that the liberals who support players taking a knee tend not to be football fans in the first place.
So it’s not as if they will get a bunch of new fans in support of taking a knee, to replace those who tune out..
I wonder how season ticket sales renewals are going this off season.
I can’t wait to hear excuses as to why viewership and attendance are down if they are lower again this year.
The excuses from the past were crazy, such as:
The sunny side of the 49ers stadium gets so hot, that nobody wants to sit there.
The attendance dropped over Thanksgiving weekend because so many people were Christmas shopping or traveling.
Attendance dropped in the last few weeks because so many teams were out of playoff contention.
There were a lot of rainy days or cold weather last fall, keeping crowds down.
Some games were rescheduled, and people didn’t know what time or channel the game was on.
The reasons for the drops were anything besides public anger at the players protests. In there morning and, it had to be anything besides the players behavior driving fans away.
To: MeganC
Long was a Patriot for one season. He’s now a Philadelphia Eagles player.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:45:29 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Political Junkie Too
>>A stadium full of your fellow citizens says otherwise.<<
A 1/2 empty stadium even more so.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:47:35 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(robert mueller is an unguided missile)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
He can always get a real job being useless.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:48:54 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Joe McCarthy was right.)
To: freedumb2003
Yeah, I mangled the thought, didn't I?
-PJ
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:50:01 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: MeganC
Last season it was kneeling.
This season it is kneeling and $100 million to SJW groups.
I think the NFL is still digging. It may turn out to be their own grave.
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:50:30 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
“Former Patriots defensive end Chris Long”
Former?
How about current Philadelphia Eagles player?
Guess “Patriot” sounded better...
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:50:48 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
To: Political Junkie Too
LOL — your underlying point was there — a stadium full of people BOYCOTTING says volumes :)
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:51:15 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(robert mueller is an unguided missile)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
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posted on
05/24/2018 3:52:04 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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