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Cowboys Owner Makes an Anthem Stand: ‘If We Are Disrespecting the Flag, Then We Won’t Play. Period’
Breitbart ^ | 8 Oct 2017 | Dylan Gwinn

Posted on 10/08/2017 7:54:08 PM PDT by conservative98

Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones has had it with anthem protests. Just how tired of it is he? Tired enough that Jones has now publicly said that if his team doesn’t respect the flag, they’re not going to play.

Jones was asked by Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News, about two Cowboys players who raised their fists at the end of the anthem. Jones said he did not see the raised fists. But then, Jones made a definitive statement about how he wants to see his team to handle the anthem from now on.

According to Pro Football Talk, Jones said, “If there’s anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play. OK? Understand? If we are disrespecting the flag, then we won’t play. Period. Period.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cowboys; dallas; dallascowboys; flag; jones; nationalanthem; nfhell; nfl; nofansleft; pence; sports; takeaknee; trump; twofacejones
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To: BlessedBeGod
But they can kneel and/or lock arms before and after the anthem?

He is trying to have it both ways but it won't work.


121 posted on 10/09/2017 4:19:34 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but not for themselves.)
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To: conservative98

After J. Jones caved in a couple weeks ago and knelt with all the brain-dead malcontents, arm in arm.

Too late, Jerry.


122 posted on 10/09/2017 4:20:47 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: gaijin

I think the idea behind Jones taking a knee on the Monday night game was to get closure on all of this. No one listened and it still goes on.

I don’t think Jones understands that if he sits the players who don’t stand, they still get their money. He has to cut them. That’s the only thing players understand.


123 posted on 10/09/2017 4:27:39 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: gaijin

We watch they do, ignore what they say.

So spaketh us Neanderthal fans.


124 posted on 10/09/2017 4:33:35 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: conservative98

The negro football league is not going over so well, eh jerry?


125 posted on 10/09/2017 4:39:07 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: conservative98

Native daughter of Texas and long time Cowboys fan. This is too little, too late. Start releasing these thugs that show disrespect to the flag of the country allowing them to make millions playing a child’s game. Maybe then I will contemplate watching again.


126 posted on 10/09/2017 4:51:32 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: dfwgator

A BIG Piece


127 posted on 10/09/2017 5:03:37 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: RitaOK

Yep. List in all f thus was that fateful day and the subsequent (n)Fl lack time f honorable response

Screw these unAmerican hypocrites


128 posted on 10/09/2017 5:14:05 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: battletank

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129 posted on 10/09/2017 5:22:19 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: sargon

“Kneeling before or after the anthem is about as empty a statement as anyone could make...

No; it isn’t “empty”. Considering the fact that we already know for sure what’s in their hearts, the statement is profound. They’re commie America haters. We know it and they know we know.


130 posted on 10/09/2017 5:22:40 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: conservative98

Jerry Jones the liberal is disrespecting the flag, Americans, and whites by supporting the black anti-American racists kneegros.


131 posted on 10/09/2017 5:39:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: conservative98
Jerry Jones, the liberal, and Cowboys owner. There are far worse images that cannot be posted of him.


132 posted on 10/09/2017 5:42:19 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Cowboy Bob
He doesn't care about the flag. He just cares about the bottom line. He's losing money.

Had the Cowboys won yesterday, he never would have brought the subject up. He did it to change the narrative, to talk about the flag, rather than the fact that the Cowboys are 2-3, and could be 4-6 or worse after the next 5 games.

This, after going 13-3 the year before.

133 posted on 10/09/2017 5:44:36 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: conservative98

So he drew the clear line in the sand. Now let’s see if he is honest.


134 posted on 10/09/2017 6:05:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: conservative98

He needs to stop the black power salute after the anthem by his players. I don’t need the salute...I can already tell they are black. One was quoted saying it was for his morals...uh, same one that was recently suspended for drug abuse.


135 posted on 10/09/2017 6:10:40 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: BlessedBeGod
But they can kneel and/or lock arms before and after the anthem?

Apparently. Also, I expect they will be allowed to stand for the anthem with no hand on heart, eyes lowered, glowering, shifting back and forth. . . . .

136 posted on 10/09/2017 6:20:12 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Genoa

Spent last Friday night in the press box at a local high school game. EVERYBODY in box stood and saluted the flag.

All of the fans stood. All of the players stood except for two players on other team.

Those two young men had a rough night.


137 posted on 10/09/2017 6:39:43 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Jmouse007

Your comments are spot on the money. Excellent!


138 posted on 10/09/2017 6:57:02 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: conservative98

Hey Jerry,don’t sell me. Show me!


139 posted on 10/09/2017 7:02:38 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Space for rent.)
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To: themidnightskulker

Those two should have been sent to the showers.


140 posted on 10/09/2017 7:15:31 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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