Posted on 06/15/2022 1:11:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
When Jack Del Rio mentioned the “summer of love” and January 6, he didn’t use the accepted narrative of BLM-Good, J6-Bad. This made many leftist snowflakes angry, including Washington Commanders Redskins head coach Ron Rivera. He fined Del Rio $100,000 for his comments.
At least one former NFL head coach isn’t happy with it. Jeff Fisher had a message for Rivera. According to OutKick:
While Del Rio has received condemnation from media personalities like Ian Rapaport, he has a defender in Michigan Panthers and former NFL head coach Jeff Fisher.
Fisher ripped Rivera’s choice of words, expressing personal disappointment in him and skepticism that the statement was even written by Rivera:
“But, you know, on first glance, I was a little disappointed in Ron [Rivera], you know, I was teammates with Ron. And for him to come out and just as like some speechwriter wrote his statement and it’s not true.”
Importantly and accurately, Fisher pointed out how little the truth seems to matter in our current environment, suggesting that if you don’t know the truth, it’s best not to speak about issues at all:
“There were not deaths beyond, you know, like he mentioned, you know, and I’m not I don’t mean to bring up to the Capitol in January, but there weren’t deaths. And he put that in the statement. And so I just think, you know, going back to dad’s, just tell the truth. And if you don’t know it, then keep your mouth shut.“
He also decried the current trend, popular amongst modern corporations and apparently the Washington Commanders, of issuing inaccurate statements to try to placate the demands of the 24-hour news cycle:
“Take a deep breath and figure out what the truth is and be truthful and honest and not, you know, trying to benefit from. You know and maximize from these created narratives that people are throwing out there. And they’re unjustified.”
Rivera’s statement contained numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations, whitewashing the deaths and destruction that erupted throughout the country in summer 2020.
If more people spoke out against wokeness, perhaps it could finally be ended.
NFL Ping!>.......................
That was my key takeaway.
I love Jeff Fisher, but holy crap he sounds practically illiterate in his text messages!
Mr 500 who dined out his whole career on one trick play that worked has advice to ignore.
“I love Jeff Fisher, but holy crap he sounds practically illiterate in his text messages!”
I have no idea why the Liberty Daily printed the wording the way they did. I checked three other sources, one being Sports Illustrated, and none of the three displayed some of the words Liberty says he used like “you know.”
https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-ex-nfl-hc-jeff-fisher-slams-ron-rivera
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Did anyone actually see the texts, not the reprints?
At least one person, former NFL coach Jeff Fisher, is taking the opposite approach.
Instead of publicly calling for more, Fisher believes politics have taken too big a role in sports today.
“Politics is getting into everything right now and it doesn’t need to,” Fisher recently said on OutKick The Tailgate. “The Rivera and Del Rio stuff, I mean come on, give us a break...Leave that stuff alone, there’s too much going on right now.”
But Fisher wasn’t done speaking about the state of politics being involved in sports culture and narratives today.
Asked about the fine Rivera issued to Del Rio following his comments after Wednesday’s practice, Fisher shared his own views on the situation.
“I went down the middle my whole career and I respected everybody for whatever they believed in and everyone should have an opportunity to talk about what they believe in,” Fisher said. “But to create narratives that aren’t true...on first glance, I was a little disappointed with Ron. I was teammates with Ron, and for him to come out, it was like some speech writer wrote his statement. And it’s not true. There were not deaths, like he mentioned...there weren’t deaths, and he put that in his statement...just tell the truth and if you don’t know it then keep your mouth shut.”
One USC Trojan supporting another.
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Del Rio talked about the riots and buildings being burned; Rivera twisted to say he was wrong to compare peaceful protests to Jan 6. Del Rio NEVER mentioned peaceful protests - Rivera is a snake.
Well, he is a former player......................😜
Maybe Del Rio snitched. Anyway, Jack is probably loving this!
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