Posted on 10/06/2024 7:06:02 PM PDT by Libloather
New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh sparked controversy during the team's NFL game against the Minnesota Vikings in London on Sunday.
The 45-year-old was spotted on the sidelines at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium wearing a Lebanese flag below the Nike logo on the sleeve of his team hoodie.
The night before Sunday's game - the first of the NFL's international fixtures this season - Israeli bombing continued on Beirut, the Lebanese capital, amid the Israel-Hezbollah war.
The Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut was hit by more than 30 strikes overnight, which were heard across the city, with smoke still seen billowing from the site after dawn, Lebanon's official National News Agency said.
Saleh, who is of Lebanese heritage, previously wore a similar patch last October but his decision to bear the flag Sunday raised eyebrows as the anniversary of the beginning of the war in Gaza approaches.
Saleh's clothing in the wake of the attacks left NFL fans divided on social media with many furious, while others defended his right to express pride in his heritage.
'Robert saleh p***ing off a lot of the Jew York community with the Lebanon flag on his top no doubt,' one social media user shared to X, formerly known as Twitter.
'What a t**d that guy is,' another added, while a third wrote: 'I hope they leave Hezbollah Sally in London when the Jets come back to New York.'
The Jets suffered humiliation at the hands of the Vikings throughout the first half of Sunday's game, risking a blowout defeat until a last-gasp touchdown on the brink of halftime.
And some social media users claimed that Saleh's political stance would not help his job security.
'Bigger issue is the Lebanese flag on saleh’s sleeve,' one fan said, replying to another post criticizing the Jets'...
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Yes, he was. I have Saint Jude (Memphis, TN) in my Will.
The Israeli Jets deliver a better strike down the field.
Castle in The Desert, At the Opera, or at the Circus my go to Chan Flicks.
I have two reels of 16mm Chan movies in my collection.
Reel 1 from a warner oland film and reel 2 from a toler flick.
I play them as if they are the same movie. no one notices.
Not as many as there once were, decades ago. There were also Jews throughout the Middle East, other than present-day Israel...
Oh, golly, Saleh isn’t going to be happy about this spectacular / massive secondary explosion in Beruit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LHZhECGFaY
(The building had already been on fire for about an hour, says the commentator on the vid.)
Looks like missile storage for sure - note the item zipping off to the left and then curving back!
Boycott the NFL?
I was boycotting the NFL before boycotting the NFL was cool.
I do miss the big three broadcast channels where you could watch practically any sport free.
Before I quit watching NFL and Sports in general (because I refuse to pay for cable...) I was a Jets follower. I’m glad I wasn’t a Jets gambler.
So now you have a betting app for your mobile... I don’t think that’s going to go too well when you look at the commercials and pop ups and there’s always a “Surgeons General Warning” (i.e. a liability disclaimer) about gambling addiction tacked on to the end of it or digitally sped up so you can’t tell what the heck the warning is all about.
It’s the Roman Empire all over again!
I thought it meant the NFL coach was supporting Lebanese citizens against the tyrannical occupation of Lebanon by the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
Maybe Netanyahu should pick up on this theme...
"Israel is liberating Lebanon from Hezbollah tyranny!"
Lebanon used to be almost 60% Christian.
For decades, Beirut was known as "The Paris of the Middle East."
In recent decades, huge numbers of Christians have moved out of Lebanon.
Huge numbers of Palestinian and Syrian refugees, and huge numbers of Hezbollah terrorists, have moved in.
Today, less than 25% of Lebanon is Christian, and much of the country is a garbage dump
I can vouch for the veracity of that statement. I do still occasionally watch, but it is not to watch the game, but to spend time with my best friend. I don't even care about the game, who wins or loses.
This has been difficult for me. I have been an avid pro football fan...and I mean avid...for over 50 years. I loved it. Loved it. Loved the intensity, the physical contact, the strategy, the characters, the joy of success and the bitterness of defeat.
When I was at sea, long before the days of the Internet, on Sunday evenings, I would prowl around the radio shack on the ship, waiting for door to open just to see radioman tape a results printout on the bulkhead next to the door.
When in port, I would sit on the darkened flight deck, running up and down the dial of a small transistor radio, knowing if I came across a football game, I would immediately recognize the voice and cadence of a pro football announcer...though I never did, it didn't stop me from trying.
I have loved it all. I had a huge group of people I socialized with, centered on pro football. We have traveled to games many times. Had Christmas parties. Been to weddings, and in the past few years...funerals.
We have cheered, yelled, jumped around like children, grinned, high fived, linked arms and danced jigs, and slumped in silent dejection...all together...all memorable.
But all of it...all of it provided us with an excuse to see each other as we enter a time of our lives where people begin to pull apart and spend more time outside the group, a natural thing.
And I loved it. And I miss it.
But I love my country far more, and the rage I felt watching these entitled pricks kneeling as the National Anthem was played, showing that disrepect in the presence of the flag my father and I served under and the one he was buried under, well...it made me want to spit.
So, I have watched five minutes or so here, glanced at an article about a game, but...I don't follow it. Don't know schedules, don't know home games, no idea of away games, don't know when the bye week is, standings, who is playing who, who is good and who is bad, who is rising and who is retiring or going to retire...none of it. v I hate and despise the Left. Anyone who reads me on this forum probably gets that. But of all the things they have done to this country over the years, the terrible, tyrannical, wrong, and anti-Constitutional things they have done...and they have done a LOT...the one I take more personally is their destruction of professional sports, and Football in particular. Even though they have done evil and heinous things to my country, the one that I feel that most keenly on an immediate and personal level, is their eradication of the love I felt for that game inside me.
May they all rot in Hell.
Yiu need to see what St Jude’s has been participating in lately, namely homo parades and such. Should have stuck to their core mission
Keep telling yourself that.
Human decency?
Actually- explain why the NFL has coaches where sweatshirts with flags of all these nations. Saleh is an awful coach, but all the coaches wear sweatshirts with flags of every nation but the US- from what i see
I have noticed that helmets have the US flag, some players add to theirs, some worthless RB had an African flag on his below the US flag.
That is all controlled by the league- players just can’t add stickers to the helmet willy nilly.
If you remember a few years ago players wanted to wear cleats which honored 9-11 and the league initially said “no” before relenting
I’d wear an NFL shirt that says Nuke F’n Lebanon.
Globohomos all of them.
That was the old World League of American Football / NFL Europe. The two main problems were the level of play wasn’t very high and it lost a lot of money. Its demise (2007) corresponded with the NFL starting regular season games in London, which has been much more successful.
THANKS FOR THE INFO. All those little kids are now facing a decline in funds to treat them thanks to perverts in the hospital. Disgusting.
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