Posted on 09/26/2017 9:48:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Over 150 football players took a knee or remained in the locker room Sunday during the playing of the national anthem at NFL games across the country. Their choice to ignore the anthem came after President Trump called Colin Kaepernick an SOB for starting the controversial action to protest racial injustice.
One Pittsburgh Steeler player actually stood for the anthem, only to later apologize to his teammates and franchise.
As a Buffalo Bills fan, I had hoped at least they would remain standing for our law enforcement, as they've done in the past during the kneeling controversy. However, I was very mistaken. Not only did several of the players kneel, one player took it a few shameful steps further.
LeSean McCoy stretches during the national anthem. Video courtesy @JennaCottrell @WKBW @13WHAM #Bills pic.twitter.com/2tT4NmdoD8— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) September 24, 2017
Asked about his stretches after the game, the running back explained that he cares about the flag, but not our "jerk" of a president.
"The flag, the national anthem means a lot to me, to my teammates," McCoy said after the game. "We had a long meeting Saturday night, and I was very bothered by the comments of our president, of this country. As a president, you're supposed to lead, and you're supposed to bring us together. You're supposed to lead this country. I can't stand and support something where our leader of this country is just acting like a jerk, angry and upset about NFL players protesting in a peaceful manner."
Well, former Bills player and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Kelly was having none of it. While he "likes" McCoy, Kelly "100 percent" disagrees with his behavior.
"You want to kneel? Fine. But when you go and do what he did yesterday, that sort of bummed me out. And I lost a lot of respect for him. ... You want to kneel? That's your prerogative. I would never do that. I will always stand, thank the good Lord for everything I got. But when you disrespect the way he did and just go by his everyday duty in the national anthem being sung? Uh-uh. I won't go for that."
It's especially a shame that McCoy acted as he did over the weekend, considering the moving gesture he made last year. In the heat of Kaepernick's protest, McCoy invited over a dozen local police officers to a Bills game for recognition.
“Just an appreciation type of thing,” McCoy said at the time. “Cause they’re taking so much heat right now. There’s things that are happening that’s definitely wrong but I just feel like there’s bad people, there’s bad cops and there’s good cops.”
Fast forward a year later, and the running back is doing leg stretches during the anthem.
The Bills may have won the battle on the field Sunday against the Broncos, but they lost plenty of respect.
One stadium employee, Erich Nikischer, was so upset over the Bills behavior that he quit his job at New Era Field after 30 years.
“I waited until the National Anthem ended, I took off my shirt, threw my Bills hat on the ground, walked out,” he said.
Done with NFL. Screw those damn hate America black jackasses. And totally screw the white trash football players that support communists.
The Canton HOF should be razed and the busts of all those previous racists that played need to be destroyed.
Yep, he was a POS in Philly, and he hasn’t changed in Buffalo.
All these morons on the left trying to turn this into a Trump-bashing escapade instead of calling out these pampered, very-highly compensated "entertainers" for their disrespect of a patriotic pre-game ritual should be reminded of this fact.
He’s a racist America hater. Next.
Yeah, him, too................
Several times McCoy has feigned what looked like a devastating jury on the field, got loads of attention and concern, only to return to the field a couple minutes later.
If he only kneeled, he would not have been singled out.
Now look at all the attention he is getting.
Like a lot of the other players, he is immature and may never become a man.
You got it
I have been a huge Bills fan since 1980 after I arrived home there from college, but no more. While I detest the action of the players, I find the statements of the owners beneath contempt. Done with the NFL.
The President did not call Kapernick a SOB. He was not specific, made a generic statement of what he would do to an employee....
The writer of this article probably knows this.
“The flag, the national anthem means a lot to me, to my teammates...” Of course, not so much that they would actually do something in the nature of a personal sacrifice to honor either the flat or the Anthem; other than tallying their personal football stats and counting their money.
Trump didn’t call Kapernick an SOB did he? I read it in a general term for whomever didn’t want to stand for the anthem.
When did Trump call Kapernick an s.o.b.?
No he didn’t and you are correct.
This is the guy who left a twenty cent tip on a $61.56 tab.
Wonder how that happened?
McCoy: Uh... how much should I leave for a tip?
Crew member: Twenty percent.
McCoy: Okay, twenty cent.
I wonder what my Tyrod Taylor did.
I say: “If they take a knee, give’em the FINGER!!”
I’m glad Jim Kelly spoke up. He was a great QB and seems like good Man.
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