Posted on 08/25/2017 7:59:22 AM PDT by DFG
Pro Football Hall of Famer and Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown panned current football players who choose to protest during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner, saying “I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem.”
Brown, who fought for social causes throughout his career, told ThePostGame.com he empathizes with jobless quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the trend of kneeling during the anthem last season when he played for the San Francisco 49ers. But Brown said Kaepernick and other players who demonstrate – such as a dozen Cleveland players who knelt Monday – are going about their crusade the wrong way.
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One of The Greatest of All Time
For several reasons
I wonder who is going to be the first one on the left to call him an “uncle Tom” or something equally stupid.
Pro fans need a new league.
Got a nfl team in my town. since this crap started I vowed the nfl would get ZERO money from me. I hope many others do the same but I’m afraid far too many just gotta have their precious football.
The coach should be fired too, but the OWNER of the team is just as guilty, but he had to listen to the NFL Commissioner... who is a big stupid dumb head.
ALL OF THEM should have ordered him to knock it off or he’s benched. Next offense, terminated.
His number one job (above even tossing a football around) was to ATTRACT AND KEEP AN AUDIENCE.
He clearly is a pig-headed a$$hole, because a number of people probably told him that, he could see the audience reaction, and the public reaction, but he stuck to it. Now he’s toxic, and it’s his own fault.
OFF THE FIELD he could say anything he wants. But on someone else’s payroll you do your job and nothing else. And his job was NOT TO Pi$$-off half the audience.
I’m much more into the English Premier League these days than the NFL.
An Inconvenient Series of Questions (for William Bennett):
Q: “what is the most important thing on the grid-iron, Mr. Bennett?
A: We are all taught from an early age that the most important thing is the ball.
Q: So, you admit that it isn’t you?
Grown men getting dirty rich for playing with a ball with other grown men, and my beer, pizza and car costing more for that privilege. Then, whining about their condition. No thanks, much better things to do with my time.
My dad, a lifelong Browns fan, died on 1/2/16.
As I saw the disgraceful display earlier this week, all I could think of was “Things I’m happy my dad isn’t around to see, for $ 100, Alex.”
My dad would be proud of what Jim Brown said today; his admiration of him was not misplaced. JB wasn’t always perfect, but his heart was often in the right place.
No...the commisioner works for the owners, not the other way around. Jerry Jones hasn't put up with a shred of this nonsense from his players and he won't. I'd be willing to bet that any Dallas Cowboy player who took a knee during the anthem would be off the team before kickoff.
In other words, a lot of these malcontents in the NFL today don't have much in common with him.
Police behavior and tactics are a legitimate topic of debate in a free society.
Mr. Brown is right. Players who have issues there have many avenues of redress that do not involve taking a p*ss on the flag.
Rodney Harrison said pretty much the same thing Jim Brown is saying and the media crucified him into offering an apology for stating the truth. Harrison:... "I tell you this, I'm a black man. And Colin Kaepernick -- he's not black," Harrison said on I-heart Radio... "He cannot understand what I face and what other young black men and black people face, or people of color face, on a every single (day) basis. When you walk in a grocery store, and you might have $2,000 or $3,000 in your pocket and you go up in to a Foot Locker and they're looking at you like you about to steal something. You know, I don't think he faces those type of things that we face on a daily basis."
CBS reported this...
Before their game on Monday against the Giants, a total of 12 Browns players kneeled for the anthem. The group was notable for two big reasons: First, it was the largest group to hold a protest together in the NFL, and two, it marked the first time that a white player also took a knee.
That's flat out wrong... The first time a 'white' player took a knee is when Kaperdink took a knee, because he's just as white as he is black.
Good for Jim Brown
“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.
Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.
But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]
During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
Interestingly, Lewis still works as a consultant to the Ravens and has given several reports on the Kaepernick situation in recent weeks ... and without coming right out and saying it, he has hinted strongly that Kaepernick is out of a job today mainly because he isn't really interested in playing professional football.
I respect Jim Brown even more than I already did.
And, I’ve always said that I respect Colin’s right to have his opinion.....I don’t agree with it, he’s a whining idiot in my opinion, but he’s entitled to be that idiot if he so chooses.
Actually, to be honest, I’m still not sure what he and his compatriots are protesting against—Someone should should ask them what it will take for them to end their protest. I seriously doubt they would be able to answer the question. They don’t like democracy? Freedom of speech? Making millions playing a child’s game? I hear the words social justice thrown around, but we have more of that than i any country on the face of the earth.
Anyway.....
With that said, I am Colin’s customer and he he is annoying me...driving me out of his store....making me want to go across the street and shop at another store. In short, he is a bad employees and this is why he is no longer working. Employees who drive away paying customers are never welcome...that’s how it works in realityville. It’s that simple!!!! And Jim Brown gets it.
Now, if Colin is out on a street corner (IE-on his off day) spouting his beliefs, I may or may not listen or care or agree or disagree with him, but that’s up to me....and I would not hold it against him because we have free speech in this country.
Let’s flip it around so even liberals can understand.....
What if a Bunch of Players started wearing “Make America Great Again” Hats on the sideline? This too would drive away many fans because again no one wants that from a football player.
In conclusion, When we go to McDonald’s, we want fast food. When we go to a gas station, we want gas. When we turn on the news, we want news. And.....wait for it....when we turn on an NFL game, we want NFL football!!!!
By the way, Colin is a spoiled rich kid from Turlock California.
Jim Brown has been so active in civil rights virtually since day 1 of his career. But in a very intelligent and statesman-like way in a Dr King manner
If he is called a "tom" or crucified over his comments than truly, all sense of reason from the left and media is lost.
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