Gonna get one.
Want to honor the player. Hate to reward the NFL with money.
God Bless all 6” 9” of him!
YES!!
And it’s my old high school number. Gotta get one.
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UPI and their reporter can’t write their way out of a paper bag. Villanueva didn’t serve “terms” in Afghanistan. He served “tours of duty” in that craphole. Politicians are elected to serve “terms”, convicted criminals serve “terms” in prison...but I repeat myself.
As I just wrote on somebody else’s Facebook post about Villanueva: He took an oath to defend the nation and that doesn’t go away just because he took off the military uniform. He EARNED the privilege of being able to take that oath. His team that stayed in the locker room and the coach who criticizes him have not EARNED any such privilege except to STFU and stand behind the MAN who understands what Duty, Honor, Country really means. They get to draw a free breath and exercise their freedoms because of MEN like Villanueva. It certainly isn’t by anything they’ve done.
When I was a lad in 6th grade, scion of a left-wing family, avidly reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and listening to Buffy St. Marie, I was the only kid who refused to stan for the National Anthem. I grew up and smartened up considerably since then, but one thing I remember is my father, the leftist professor, explaining to me that really the Anthem raises a note of skepticism at the end. “Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave” according to my father, was a call to introspection, to see if America is still worthy of the ideals on which it was founded. He was right, but I was a pig-headed little left-wing feller, and kept “taking a knee” and getting yelled at by everyone.
One valuable thing I learned from the experience was how to make a stand all alone against a hostile majority, even though in retrospect I realize that the majority and my father were all right and I was wrong.
Vilanueva has already learned that lesson. He’s a lone voice of sanity in an industry which is killing itself, and taking heat for his stand. All power to him. And he’s right.
Tom Brady said that what President Trump said was “divisive”.
What Tom and his ilk fail to see is that the Kaepernick kneel is what is “divisive”. It is not divisive to stand at attention for the national anthem. It is courtesy and respect for all who have fought to defend that flag. Yes, mostly white folks for sure, but many black folks as well. Thousands and thousands of those folks paid the ultimate price with their lives. Is that “divisive”, Tom?
Forget the country Tom. Look to your own NFL rule book. You taunt another player or show too much celebration , or don’t stand for the anthem you are supposed to be penalized. Which is more “divisive” Tom, “taunting” another player or not taunting? Do you condone ridiculing your teammate for a botched play? No, that is “divisive”. Yet you can not allow your fellow teammates and fans to honor their country by standing for the national anthem. Instead you encourage a minority of your teammates to “taunt” them and their beliefs.
Spoiled rotten hypocrites, all.
Thank you soldier. Makes me proud to have served.
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His teammates are total d!cks for letting him stand there by himself.
I hope he asks to be traded to the Cowboys.
I ordered a T-shirt. I wonder how many of his teammates secretly regret what they did and wish they’d had his courage and patriotism.
And it wasn't just that Villanueva looks both sad, and determined, and alone, and yet, clearly not alone!
And he embarrassed his pos community organizer, er, 'coach', and doubly embarrassed a true Hall of Famer in Rottenburger, who should have known better.
Someone make Villanueva an Honorary FReeper. Do we have a certificate or some such? Like a Kentucky Colonel? You know, we really should have something like that, even if it's only one a year, this is the right man as the inaugural member.
And kudos to that security bro behind Villanueva. This ain’t about Amish, this is about Shitlock & the moral lepers at ESPN and their absolute comrades inside the NFL (a whole silo of ‘vice’-prezs representin’ diversituh).
Good man.
Don’t buy it.
It’s giving the NFL money.
Good for him, but I’m not giving them a dollar. Ever again.
They are corrupt communist leftist scum.
Except that he folded like a cheap jersey. Not too late to cancel the order or return unopened and ask for your money back.
I love this guy!
I say: “If they take a knee, give’em the FINGER!!”