Posted on 09/25/2017 8:23:48 AM PDT by C19fan
FIRST QUARTER: END THE GREAT COLLEGE ANTHEM HIDEOUT
It is amazing that roughly 100 seconds of 200-year-old music could cause a nationwide uproar, but that’s where we are in modern America and modern football. The national anthem, which has an illogical but likely irrevocable attachment to sporting events, overshadowed the games it precedes Sunday.
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What a jackass, this writer is just longing to stir things up on the college scene.
Monkey see, monkey do.
There were some college FB protests last season. Michigan, Michigan State, and Nebraska players disrespected the anthem for sure.
No doubt there were others, and probably also this year, but they don’t seem to be getting much publicity.
Those with NFL ability wi protest by going on strike during the bowl games to avoid injury.
Pat Forde is a prick trying to stir up some BS in the college game.
Nebraska did have some players on their knees when they played at Illinois, but for home games, the national anthem is played before the players take the field.
Notice how the liberal asshat Forde directs his venom at the SEC - an area of the country totally behind Trump. Rot in hell Pat Forde.
Given past history the NCAA will bend-over and lube up for this one quicker than you can say “Fighting Sioux”.
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