>>I can have my own opinions too, I just can’t tell clients while I’m on the job.
>>The players have the right to not stand for the national anthem on their own time, but not in the workplace. There’s no such right.
>>I’ve worked for a couple of companies and they all had employee expectations. “Business conduct guidelines”, except they weren’t all “guidelines”, with various “shall” and “must” and “will” thrown in there.
>>It’s called a condition of employment, and when you sign on the dotted line you surrender some “rights” while on the job.
>>Sure, you don’t have to do what they want - but then you can find another job, too.
>>Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I misunderstand the NFL command structure. Maybe Joe Blow on the team is equal to the team owner, and Joe can do as he pleases (as it appears).
>>*shrug*
My post was pretty short and you three failed to read the whole thing, or really any of it since you totally missed the point.
My original post was this:
No. He’s right. Americans should stand. This is America and no one makes me stand or kneel. But I also understand consequences. Those players have the right to not stand. Fans have the right to stay home. Team owners have the right to change rosters. That’s how freedom works and another man’s freedom means he doesn’t have to do what you want.
I’ll try to explain it and be more direct.
“Americans should stand. This is America and no one makes me stand or kneel. Those players have the right to not stand.”
Freedom and rights are everyone’s. No one should say that Americans MUST stand or kneel for anything. Goodell said “should” and he is right.
“Team owners have the right to change rosters.”
But, exercising rights may carry a cost. When they are on that field in that uniform, they are employees. They have rights and so does their employer.
“Fans have the right to stay home.”
The league also needs to address the rights of fans to stay home. As a business, it is no-brainer that you cater to the fans and help the players find a venue off-field to air their bullsh!t grievances against the greatest nation on earth, which is far better than all the black-led hellholes in Africa.
“That’s how freedom works and another man’s freedom means he doesn’t have to do what you want.”
So, they can piss off their employer and hopefully become unemployed. Or they can exercise their freedom someplace where the NFL can’t make them pay for it.
But, my tagline says it all when it comes to these pampered millionaire ball players.
I didn’t miss your point. I just don’t agree with it. A constitutional right is defined as “A liberty or right whose protection from governmental interference is guaranteed by a constitution.” They don’t apply to actions taken by an employer to define rules of behavior on the job.
The players have no “right” to kneel on the sideline during the playing of the national anthem at NFL games. I have no “right” to put on a white robe and dash to the fifty yard line to burn a cross at the Super Bowl.