Posted on 09/25/2017 1:23:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Steelers will be on the sideline during the national anthem in future games, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and defensive end Cam Heyward said during a news conference Monday.
Roethlisberger, via a statement posted on his website, said he has regrets over the Steelers’ decision to wait in the tunnel during the national anthem at Sunday’s game in Chicago, but that the team’s intent was not to protest the song, the flag or the military.
Roethlisberger said that he personally believes that protests have no place during the national anthem, but that the idea was to show unity as a team in the wake of president Donald Trump saying NFL teams should fire players who kneel for the anthem.
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Yeah Bennie! Blame it on Trump. Real man there.
You chose. You live with it.
Too late.
BITE IT YOU SACKLESS PUSSY!
Eat me Ben.
Maybe he should donate a year’s salary to the NAACP.
I’ll bet he would sleep like a baby.
Ben, y’all left your team mate and former Army Ranger out there to stand by himself. You looked like a bunch of jerks.
Has he checked with the coach about this?
Because this entire debacle appears to be Tomlin’s doing.
There are no mulligans in football
A yard short, Ben.
Most probably written by his agent. He wants to straddle BOTH fences and not piss off the angry Steeler fans who boycott the team AND at the same time, look pro-team. Pathetic.
FRED RUBINO: Taking a knee ... NFL ... protest
https://youtu.be/ArA4UZp3H7Y
You can’t stop this bitch boy.
You all started this and tried to turn this onto Trump.
HANDS UP DONT SHOOT lie is what started this and the support of BLM and their anti police and anti whitey stance.
Goodbye. We’re done. I would never watch a game with a bunch of thugs who I know hate me for my color.
Way too late, the only chance the NFL ever had to stop the inevitable destruction was to FIRE Kapernik Immediately when he got down on his knees for liberalism.
It is illegal to not stand at attention with your hand over your heart:
All this backtracking is how Roethlisberger is going to stay in shape.
If some of this shame and regret is sincere, then perhaps Ben will come to have a proper disdain for the left, its lies, and its hypnosis. The left and Satan ... so similar in how they work. Yet each requires the human to be spiritually asleep at the wheel.
>> You all started this and tried to turn this onto Trump.
Precisely. They’re using Trump as the scapegoat for their neglect and indifference.
They already told the world what they think of the United States. Too late to take it back.
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