Posted on 09/09/2020 9:58:41 AM PDT by C19fan
When the Bengals start the 2020 season with a home game against the Chargers, the Bengals may be starting the game with a powerful statement.
Tyler Dragon of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the Bengals are considering whether to stay in the locker room or to collectively kneel during the national anthem. Dragon’s report is based on multiple unnamed sources, reflecting internal discussions among the players.
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Apparently this message is so powerful it can drive millions of viewers to other entertainment sources in seconds.
Both teams can pound sand...win win...
14-2 teams can mouth off. 2-14 better just shut up and pay attention to the game plan and weight room until they aren't the worst team in the league.
The Bengals could stay in their locker room for the entire season and I would not know the difference.
Screw the National Felon League.
Nobody will watch their nonsense. They are shooting themselves in the foot over this. I will laugh at their foolishness. Idiots.
WGAS?
Might just as well stay in the locker room...for the whole game...
No one will we watching
Get them out of the USA.
They can not even show up and I would not care.
All the teams can cancel the season.
They can stay in the locker room forever as far as I’m concerned.
Who?
Seriously...I doubt very, very few FReepers watch the NFL anymore.
Maybe the blm looters should be directed to the player’s cars?
My recommendation is that they stay in the locker room.
What a complete disaster the NFL has become.
Why don’t they just not play the anthem. Goodness!!!
I don’t care what they do since I won’t be watching or listening or paying attention to any pro sports game.
I’m actually done with major league sports of any kind. The sad thing is is that they did it to themselves with their cowardly bowing and scraping to the lunatic left nitwits that run “progressive” politics these days. Superbowl, what’s that?
They are ungrateful to this nation and cowards.
Kneeling for the National Anthem
The Star-Spangled Banner provides the majestic musical/visual symbol of the Constitution I swore to support and defend as a Navy officer. My indefinitely binding oath requires standing for the National Anthem and kneeling to pray for the country.
Now all pro sports plus acolytes such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Nike endorse kneeling during playing of the anthem, because disparaging the country should promote social justice. Instead veterans believe settling grievances requires revering the essence of our country and defending the liberties it represents.
Veterans are aware that when armed forces members make the ultimate sacrifice they are wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner in remembrance of liberty. When America’s fallen arrive at Dover Air Force Base from the Middle East their caskets are covered with a Star-Spangled Banner. When buried the flag is removed, elegantly folded, and given to a spouse, child, sibling, or parent.
Previously successes were attainments within marriage, raising kids, career, etc. Now a fashionable consensus defines success around one group adjusting behaviors to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves for endless perceived aggressions, insults, and prejudices. The instigators gain a prestige lacking dreams to pursue or accomplishments to celebrate. The subservient parties acquire costless moral superiority by holding themselves and the country in disgust.
I choose success through the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedom over sheltering within codependent relationships. This country needs “a new birth of freedom” to remain faithful to the Constitution as the embodiment of the American ideal.
Partial Bibliography:
The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
Meaning of the Folding of the American flag https://www.truthorfiction.com/foldsoftheflag/
The Case Against Liberal Compassion https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-case-against-liberal-compassion/
Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr05.htm
Property by James Madison http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/property-by-james-madison-march-29-1792.html
Why not stay in the locker room for the whole season?
BusterDog wrote:
All of these professional sports teams have to be hemorrhaging money.
Nope - still making money. TV broadcast ‘rights’ for one, DirecTv paying to be the ONLY legal way to see any game (NFL Sunday Ticket), and with the move of the Raiders to Las Vegas, betting has come to the NFL. The Broncos have 3 sports betting/book sponsors!
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