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Texans Players May Remove Team Logo From Helmets In Protest
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| Oct 29th 2017 8:21AM
| Nic Parco
Posted on 10/29/2017 8:32:18 AM PDT by drewh
Texans players met late Saturday to discuss how to protest as a team against Houstons owner Bob McNair over his controversial inmates running the prison comment.
The players could decide to all kneel together, and also discussed peeling the Texans decal off of their helmets or raising their fists, according to ESPN.
Whatever their demonstration winds up being, it wont be revealed before the game against the Seahawks.
McNair apologized for his words multiple time this weekend, saying: I am truly sorry to the players for how this has impacted them and the perception that it has created of me, which could not be further from the truth.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bobmcnair; houstontexans; mcnair; nfl; texans
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To: drewh
Who cares?
What a bunch of whining babies.
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posted on
10/29/2017 10:02:57 AM PDT
by
Parmy
To: Terry Mross
Why would anyoneone object to being called an inmate unless they consider themselves to be in that category? You probably don't consider yourself to be an establishment hack from the GOP wing of the Uniparty, but if I called you one, you might be a tad offended.
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posted on
10/29/2017 10:07:58 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: originalbuckeye
Time to ramp up the USFL again. A new Trump family business. (Condi for Commissioner)
To: dp0622
what good will that do unless the NFL makes it MANDATORY to stand. It's already mandatory. It's in the NFL rule book.
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posted on
10/29/2017 10:15:55 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: drewh
I think they should donate half their paycheck$ to Christian youth programs in blighted urban communities in protest!
125
posted on
10/29/2017 10:25:42 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
To: drewh
If sane people would simply stop watching pro sports for a season thing would get back in order. Can anyone imagine sponsors no paying a $million a second for Super Bowl air time?
126
posted on
10/29/2017 10:28:56 AM PDT
by
okie 54
To: drewh
The NFL is dead. The inmates pushed it into a cell on Death Row.. The fans obliged.
127
posted on
10/29/2017 10:30:17 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: Terry Mross
#12 Many in the NFL have been inmates!
To: Windflier
He didn’t call all of them inmates. Just the ones causing the problems. Yet all of them are offended.
If someone said “We can’t let idiots ruin freerepublic” I wouldn’t automatically assume they were including me.
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posted on
10/29/2017 10:44:15 AM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(Liver spots And blood thinners..)
To: drewh
Fire the lot of them on the spot.
L
130
posted on
10/29/2017 10:50:01 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: drewh
131
posted on
10/29/2017 10:54:29 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: drewh
How about if they remove the team logos from their helmets, they are no longer on the team anymore.
To: drewh
Mad Maxine Waters calls the LA riots the “LA Rebellion”. We have a black players rebellion against the billionaire team owners. Just watch the NFL implode over the next five years and get a real shitty TV deal next time around. Then all these bulked up black NFL dudes will have to take a pay cut.
Plus watch NFL franchise valuation head downward. Could not happen to a nicer bunch who have been ripping off taxpayer dollars to build their stadiums. Using threats that they will leave town if the taxpayers don’t cough up half a billion over years for new stadium financing.
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posted on
10/29/2017 11:02:44 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
To: drewh
Let them destroy the league and then they will have nothing.
134
posted on
10/29/2017 11:19:22 AM PDT
by
Titus-Maximus
(It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
To: drewh
Usually the ones signing the paychecks get to dictate acceptable behavior when on duty...do a Reagan vs. the Air Traffic Controllers deal and replace the chaff with better quality people.
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posted on
10/29/2017 11:20:51 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: drewh
They don’t own those helmets. They should all bed fired.
Behavior Detrimental to the Franchise is sufficient cause for me.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Did inmates hit too close to home for these guys?
Maybe...but to be fair, the Houston Texans have the lowest number of players who have dealt/are dealing with the criminal justice system. As NFL franchises go, the Texans are a reasonably well-behaved lot. They have their share of legal incidents, but at a far lower rate than other franchises.
That may be why the Texans players are miffed. They've had fewer than 20 players arrested since their inception, most of which were for DWI/DUI, with perhaps a disorderly conduct charge here and there. Number 1 on the offender list: Minnesota, with 50 players arrested since 2000. Cincinnati runs a close second to Minnesota, but most of their arrests are attributable to Adam (Pac-Man) Jones, who has been likened to a one-man crime wave. ;-)
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posted on
10/29/2017 11:53:14 AM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: drewh
138
posted on
10/29/2017 12:11:19 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Kozak
Yeah man!!!! This is the best post of the thread....
139
posted on
10/29/2017 12:20:32 PM PDT
by
TnTnTn
To: drewh
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posted on
10/29/2017 12:51:01 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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