Texans Players May Remove Team Logo From Helmets In Protest

AOL News ^ | Oct 29th 2017 8:21AM | Nic Parco

[drewh]

Texans players met late Saturday to discuss how to protest as a team against Houston’s 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 won’t 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.”

[Parmy]

Who cares?

What a bunch of whining babies.

[Windflier]

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.

[eddie willers]

Time to ramp up the USFL again. A new Trump family business. (Condi for Commissioner)

[Windflier]

what good will that do unless the NFL makes it MANDATORY to stand.

It's already mandatory. It's in the NFL rule book.

[Albion Wilde]

I think they should donate half their paycheck$ to Christian youth programs in blighted urban communities — in protest!

[okie 54]

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?

[NormsRevenge]

The NFL is dead. The inmates pushed it into a cell on Death Row.. The fans obliged.

[minnesota_bound]

#12 Many in the NFL have been inmates!

[Terry Mross]

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.

[Lurker]

Fire the lot of them on the spot.

L

[Paladin2]

Thry should resign.

[Trillian]

How about if they remove the team logos from their helmets, they are no longer on the team anymore.

[dennisw]

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.

[Titus-Maximus]

Let them destroy the league and then they will have nothing.

[trebb]

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.

[ridesthemiles]

They don’t own those helmets. They should all bed fired.

Behavior Detrimental to the Franchise is sufficient cause for me.

[Milton Miteybad]

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. ;-)

[Nifster]

Oh that will show them

[TnTnTn]

Yeah man!!!! This is the best post of the thread....

[fortheDeclaration]

Fire them!