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Trump: Why Is This NFL Player Standing For The Mexican National Anthem But Not America?
Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2017 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 11/20/2017 6:56:27 AM PST by Kaslin

President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to harshly condemn NFL player Marshawn Lynch after he stood for the Mexican national anthem, yet took a knee for the U.S. Star Spangled Banner during Sunday Night Football over the weekend. 

Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican Anthem and sits down to boos for our National Anthem. Great disrespect! Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2017

Marshawn Lynch sits during the US national anthem, stands for Mexican anyhem pic.twitter.com/8wdaKprEki— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) November 19, 2017

Lynch is a running back for the Oakland Raiders and was playing against the New England Patriots when he made the controversial move.

President Trump has regularly criticized individual NFL players for refusing to stand for the U.S. national anthem. He's also gone after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who refuses to implement an enforced policy that requires players to stand. 

Since protests against the national anthem started last year, NFL ratings have plummeted with fans citing players' refusal to stand for the American flag as the main reason they're tuning out of games. The business cost to the NFL is enormous

As Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones, and the NFL engage in an ugly internal fight over the future leadership of the NFL, TV partners at CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC are staring at their own internal conflicts — namely a substantial decline in NFL ratings that is on pace to cost the four networks up to $500 million in lost revenue.

Already several hundred million in lost revenue has been booked in 2017 and it has the league’s top executives and television partners scrambling to figure out what went wrong. How did a league that was setting ratings records in 2015 suddenly see its audience fall by nearly 20% just two years later.

 


TOPICS: Mexico
KEYWORDS: marshawnlynch; mexico; mexifornia; nationalanthem; nfl; oaklandraiders; presidenttrump
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To: Kaslin

Because Barack Obama isn’t President anymore.


41 posted on 11/20/2017 7:30:51 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Kaslin
Why is there an NFL game being played in Mexico in the first place? It appears that the Raiders give up a home game date every year to play in Mexico City where they supposedly have a lot of fans.

I understand some of the players are not happy about playing in a foreign country....plus what about the lost revenue to Oakland (vendors, restaurants, bars, etc. surrounding the stadium, city and state tax revenue....and so forth).

I'm not really up on this goofy situation...I don't even know if I know what I'm talking about, LOL......maybe someone here can explain it.

I see some NFL games are now played in London...is the National Football League to become the GFL....i.e...."the Globalist Football League?

Leni

43 posted on 11/20/2017 7:34:55 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Kaslin

He hates this country. Suggestion. Send him to a m*slim country, where he will be forced into slavery and be begging Trump to release him.


44 posted on 11/20/2017 7:35:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: RC one

That arrogant pos should have never been president.


45 posted on 11/20/2017 7:35:36 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Big time


46 posted on 11/20/2017 7:36:39 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Kaslin

Interestingly, Jaime Nunó Roca, who composed the music of Mexico’s bombastic and bellicose national anthem, wasn’t even Mexican. He was a Spaniard working in Mexico in 1854, when he wrote the music. Later, he came to the US and settled in New York City, where he worked as a music director until his death in 1908.


47 posted on 11/20/2017 7:37:09 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: bert

Your post is the best I’ve seen in a long time.


48 posted on 11/20/2017 7:37:39 AM PST by caver
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To: stars & stripes forever

Did they play against a Mexican team, and if why?


49 posted on 11/20/2017 7:38:40 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
That is what I want to know too. I could understand if they had played against a Mexican team.

Looks like some idiot made a stupid decision.

50 posted on 11/20/2017 7:43:24 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Kaslin

Same reason you can see Mexican flags at the same or at higher level than Old Glory all over San Antonio.


51 posted on 11/20/2017 7:55:21 AM PST by stanne
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To: Kaslin

Because he is an arrogant, hate filled, racist, anti-American, ungrateful mutant.


52 posted on 11/20/2017 8:03:28 AM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Kaslin

What a feral loser. Who watches the nfl or supports their sponsors? Only those who are brain-dead sheep or anti-American losers. I laugh at these rich feral morons.


53 posted on 11/20/2017 8:03:40 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Kaslin; All

Well, for starters Marshawn Lynch scored a 14 on the NFL Wonderlic test...So, essentially he is about as smart as an 8th grader...It also means his IQ is somewhere in the 80s...What else do you need to know.

Why did he kneel...He’s stupid!!!


54 posted on 11/20/2017 8:08:04 AM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: pollywog
>>What upsets me is those who will continually give attention to the NFL right here on FR<<
A lot of my liberal "reformed" friends in Christianity buy into the SJW philosophy and would defend Kaepernick and all other BLM protests. They deserted Scripture years ago and fall for pc "virtue." That's really discouraging.
55 posted on 11/20/2017 8:11:30 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Kaslin

Perhaps that thug should focus more on his game! Oakland had good prospects this year but are blowing it. Good! Maybe during next year’s anticipated earthquakes they will fall into the ocean along with San Francisco. Solve a lot of problems.


56 posted on 11/20/2017 8:16:45 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: MinuteGal

Actually... I guess maybe it IS trying to become the Globaliss Football League. That actually would explain a great deal of this crap, and the playing games in international cities strongly supports it.


57 posted on 11/20/2017 8:17:19 AM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: New Jersey Realist

I really think the offensive line tanked on Carr!


58 posted on 11/20/2017 8:21:14 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Kaslin

Top executives and television partners scrambling to figure out what went wrong.
A fool never learns.


59 posted on 11/20/2017 8:38:21 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Dr. Ursus
>>I really think the offensive line tanked on Carr!<<

Agree. If Carr doesn't leave the NFL, he's inviting more big time injury.
60 posted on 11/20/2017 8:44:42 AM PST by EliRoom8
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