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Fox Sports Stops Airing National Anthem Live
wkrg ^ | October 3 2017 | wkrg

Posted on 10/05/2017 11:06:11 AM PDT by Morgana

MOBILE, Alabama (WKRG) — According to Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports will no longer be airing the national anthem before NFL football games due to kneeling players.

In a statement from Fox Sports to Sports Illustrated, besides the London game, the National Anthem will not be aired live on Sunday.

Multiple NFL players were seen kneeling or standing arm and arm during the national anthem. Some teams chose to stay inside the locker room.

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KEYWORDS: fox; nationalanthem; nfl
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To: DannyTN
That just makes Fox complicit with the NFL.

No, it doesn't. It means Fox is depriving these spoiled millionaire players of their opportunity to insult this country.

It's not an ideal solution, but it's better than letting these display their un-American thuggery to millions. Indeed, it's an interim measure while everyone waits for the NFL to get its sh-t together, because it's going to end up gone if it doesn't.

And the fans will still boycott the NFL. Everyone has to make that very clear that this is what the consequences are.

The NFL has one way out of this, and one way only, and that is to show respect for its fans and make these players behave like civilized Americans instead of spoiled ghetto rats.

Ultimately, the fans are more important than the players, because without the fans, there are no players, no teams, and no league.

It's amazing to watch the NFL commit financial suicide like this due to political correctness. But that's precisely what's happening...

21 posted on 10/05/2017 11:18:16 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: Morgana

Bandaid on a cancer.

They will find other ways to cause problems.


22 posted on 10/05/2017 11:19:33 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Morgana

Knowing that it’s being hidden makes me more interested in it. But I won’t be watching the NFL until they start doing the right things, they have a long way to go. Trying to hide players anti-American antics isn’t the solution.


23 posted on 10/05/2017 11:19:37 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Morgana

I told my son that and he told me to be quiet.

Defensemen need to be ready to crush a guy.

8^)


24 posted on 10/05/2017 11:19:53 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: Morgana
>>According to Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports will no longer be airing the national anthem before NFL football games due to kneeling players.<<

Then you've capitulated to the black panthers and BLM.

How’z bout playing the national anthem and showing the flag or soldiers saluting the flag instead of scanning the sidelines looking for a hood rat disrespecting the country that made them rich. Hmmmmmm?

25 posted on 10/05/2017 11:21:23 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: LouieFisk
Close up on the flag and the singer, don’t show the players when they’re acting up.

That's a good idea too. Either way, the players don't get to make their protests public, except to the fans in the stadium.

That way, they get only the negative results of their protest, and nothing positive from it.

That's the best way to start, IMHO—simply depriving these ghetto rats of their precious public platform. The rest will work itself out eventually, because the news will travel like wildfire about whoever is protesting, and they'll feel the heat...

26 posted on 10/05/2017 11:21:30 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: airborne

Nobody sang it better than Roger Doucet (RIP) at the Montreal Forum from 1970 to 1981:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3faC2vcKko&list=RDe3faC2vcKko

Sorry, not taking anything away from Kate Smith at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.


27 posted on 10/05/2017 11:21:47 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: tennmountainman
Maybe Faux will play the BLM anthem (whatever that is).



"I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I seeeeeee........."

28 posted on 10/05/2017 11:21:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: tennmountainman

Which would be broadcast as a bunch of bleeps.


29 posted on 10/05/2017 11:22:26 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Re your photo of the Rams, post 19:

“Hands up, don’t pass!”


30 posted on 10/05/2017 11:22:36 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: Morgana

The stupid, it burns.

Bye Fox.


31 posted on 10/05/2017 11:23:25 AM PDT by chris37 (Tagline is currently under repair!)
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To: sargon

At least some of the NFL viewership is just at the beginning, seeing who is protesting. If they don’t show the opening ceremonies, it means fox might lose those viewers, too.


32 posted on 10/05/2017 11:23:40 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: sargon

Yup, deprive them of the camera to play to.


33 posted on 10/05/2017 11:23:42 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone needs to photoshop those pink pussycat hats on them, that would be funny.


34 posted on 10/05/2017 11:24:13 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: LouieFisk

So they’ll do something for the touchdown celebration.


35 posted on 10/05/2017 11:24:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

NOTE TO FOX:

Nice try ,, that won’t satisfy me ,, I remain in boycott .


36 posted on 10/05/2017 11:24:43 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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To: dfwgator

“I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I seeeeeee.........”

Classic SNL, one of my faves!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXZCbpYgSo


37 posted on 10/05/2017 11:25:40 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Morgana

The NFL IS DEAD TO ME


38 posted on 10/05/2017 11:25:53 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Morgana

In other words... ignore the problem and it’ll go away.


39 posted on 10/05/2017 11:25:58 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: dfwgator

“So they’ll do something for the touchdown celebration.”

True. I wouldn’t show that either, just cut after the score. The NFL should be banning and heavily fining (at least $100,000) any such nonsense anyway.


40 posted on 10/05/2017 11:29:47 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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