Posted on 09/28/2017 2:07:31 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Sports teams ask a lot of their fans, especially in places like Green Bay. Where, depending on the time of year, a fan could get hypothermia while just sitting in his seat. However, one recent request the team has made of the Pack faithful has left fans feeling a little hot. The Packers players, led by their quarterback Aaron Rodgers, issued a call to their fans to join them in interlocking arms during the national anthem. However, some fans have not taken kindly to the request. According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Packers Director of Public Affairs, Aaron Popkey, says fan reaction has been intense.
“We’ve had a steady stream of feedback beginning Monday morning and it continued into Wednesday. We’ve heard on both sides of the matter. We take note of their concerns.”
The fact that Popkey alludes to the “concerns” of the fans, would certainly lead one to believe that the “steady stream” of fan feedback has definitely tacked more negative, than positive.
The issue of anthem protests, already a hot-button issue, became an even bigger story after President Trump’s comments in Alabama last Friday night. Where, he referred to players who protested the anthem as “SOB’s,” and said he wished their team owners would fire them.
Those comments, led to a backlash from the league last weekend. All told, more than 200 players from all 32 teams protested the president’s comments in some form, or fashion. The Packers stood with interlocking arms, in their game against the Bengals. With the exception of three players who remained on the bench.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
"Packlash!: Fans Enraged By Packer’s Request to Join Anthem Demonstration, Let Team Know They Want No Part of It"
At this point, there is only one way for the NFL to deal with this:
Give a full apology to the fans and nation!
Force all players to stand with hand over heart and helmet off!
Read the comments, excellent rebukes.
The problem is that the armlink, perhaps ok on it’s own, is being pushed as an alternate form of mass kneeling.
Fudge Packers can go to hell...............
Green Bay Packers want fans to link arms as Donald Trump reaction continues
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3589534/posts
They try to have it both ways...................
I do not think that would even help. They poked mama bear in the eye...spat on their golden goose. This will not end well for NFL!
What are the chances there will be paid protesters and actors put into the stadium to lock arms and show “unity” with the players?
“The problem is that the armlink, perhaps ok on it’s own, is being pushed as an alternate form of mass kneeling.”
yes, and people/fans aren’t buying into it
They need to check their recent history.
Trump won Wisconsin.......................
Linking arms is the exact same thing as kneeling.
NFL football is finished. Never watch a game again. Plenty of things I can do and better use of the odd 2 or 3 hours of insanity.
It says ‘comments unavailable’.
The NFL is unified against their customers, that’s a brilliant business strategy.
If they don’t like America let them go play somewhere else.
Precisely !
FU NFL
People are being given a choice to support the team that's the villain, the kneelers, or support the good guys who like apple pie, guns and Donald Trump.
Anything to inject emotion and continued attention I’m thinking is essential to their whithering product
Instead of asking fans to put their hand over their heart, nitwit Rogers
wants fans to link arms. I hope Rogers gets booed the entire game.
A nitwit idea from a nitwit player.
No they're not... they're trying to get their brain-dead libtard fan base and PC-cowering pussies to go along with them and show support for the anti-American behavior.
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