Posted on 07/25/2018 3:20:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones will not bend on his edict that his players will stand for the national anthem, but he wishes President Donald Trump would not bring the controversy up as often as he does.
"His interest in what we're doing is problematic, from my chair, and I would say in general the owners' chair," Jones said at Wednesday's news conference to open training camp in Oxnard, California. "It's unprecedented, if you really think about it. But like the very game itself, that's the way it is and we'll deal with it.
"We feel strongly about how we deal with it and we'll do so accordingly, but, yes, I, like everybody, would like for it to go away."
When the anthem issue reached a fervor last season, Jones spoke with President Trump on multiple occasions. The president has raised the issue multiple times this offseason and even recently, saying players should be suspended if they choose to take a knee.
At the spring owners' meetings, the NFL announced a new policy that would require players on the sideline to stand for the anthem. Players who do not want to stand could remain in the locker room. In the past, the policy stated players should stand but it was not required.
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The networks will be offering the advertisers make ups on girls softball and water polo.
Burning the flag is protected by the 1st Amendment.
But don’t do it around me. The 1st Amendment won’t be able to protect you.
He put his life on the line for that flag.
I don’t think we can even imagine what he is feeling about the flag being disrespected.
Grampa Dave, thank you for your service.
rom the effects of their actions such as public and free market disapproval
I love that this is a free market solution. So many other problems could be solved with free market solutions.
The Cable tv basic bundle comes to mind.
This is a one, two punch.
Cable tv will be hit on both sides. Decreasing NFL fans with reduced advertising and cordcutters increasing with the reducion in cable tv subscriber fees and reduced advertising.
I thought they were getting paid for that
Could be more than half. There are a whole lot of people on the LEFT who were never NFL fans.
The President will double down on this till kingdom come. Who can blame him for running up the score?
22 years on active duty.
Right you are!
Many men DIED for that flag. They were/are gallant HEROES who went up against a lot worse odds that a football game to honor that flag, protect our country and yes, necessarily, gave their lives for them.
MEN died protecting it Jones. They gave their last all for it. And not just white men, if you can even say it that way. White men, BLACK men, in the end they died for that flag and neither you owners, your corporate hacks running the scam or your thugs will ever change it.
You comments to me are like someone STILL spitting on Old Glory. You just DO NOT get it.
I will NEVER watch the Cowboys again. I am done.
Yes and no. It’s a high profile way to force his opponents to support disrespectful behavior aimed at a deeply loved symbol of American greatness. It also puts him in a position to enhance his power and influence if the NFL bows to his demands or takes a financial hit, and both things happened.
It’s a skirmish that positions him to get those top 500 things done.
Go, Trump, go!
Free market indeed.
I imagine all the military people, families included, who, for every event, even driving around base at end of work day stopping (mandatory even while driving) facing the music or the flag for the Anthem. Any official ceremony honoring any veteran, retirement, symposium, everyone’s chatting, “hey havent seen you since ...” And call for the anthem comes.
Everyone in uniform stands at attention silence and sheer reverence follows. Nothing else matters for a minute and a half.
These people don’t imagine at that moment that only the military must defend and revere the flag, the country. They’re just getting paid to do it with a particular expertise. They think everyone in the country does so (especially the CIC).
What they feel watching these ignorant, hating, anti Americans has to be considered
Jones is doubling down. It is a mystery. I think he’ll regret it big league.
Sorry Jerry,but lots of people don’t think it was helpful for the NFL to allow,itself to be shaken down by Leftist thugs, from Jesse Jackson to Colin Kaepernick. Where is it written that every corporation has to bow to social justice Warriors and political correctness, and people who are opposed to political correctness have to just suck it up and keep buying the product and keep their mouth shut? When you tell Trump to shut up, you’re telling your fans to shut up too. We won’t shut up, but we will stop buying your product. And the last thing we want is for Trump to shut up.
IMO, part of why Trump is going after the NFL is that he is still holding a grudge. That grudge is due to his New Jersey Generals not getting folded into the NFL when the USFL went head to head with the NFL with a “fall ball schedule” and failed miserably.
Yes, I agree.
Prepare to be disappointed. Do what I did last year. I recorded all the collage games on Saturday. Mowed the lawn and spent the day doing everything I could. Then on Sunday after church, watched the hell out of real football being played instead of these stuck up NFL punks. Screw them all!
Most days I drive by the brand new billion dollars Vikings stadium. I protest it by giving it a one finger salute.
Takes two seconds for him to comment on it, I think he can multi-task just fine.
Yup. And as a bonus, it shows he’s in touch with the common man.
How many on here would have complained if Trump never commented?
PPPFFFTTT, don't believe a word you say, Jerry.
The Constitution has nothing to do with what a bunch of overpaid thugs in a professional sports league do before a game.
Do you mean when they put on their jock straps? Or do you mean when they disrespect our national anthem and what it represents?
Where is the CONSTITUTIONAL matter there? Can you please cite me the provision in the U.S. Constitution that requires anyone to be respectful of ANYTHING at all?
Thanks for your comments and feedback.
Many who didn’t die in service had life altering injuries in combat or training.
My Dad was in WW1, and he suffered a broken back in training that placed him on the disabled list for the rest of his life.
While he was in the army hospital recovering, his older brother, who basically was his Dad and his wife, came to visit him.
They caught the Spanish flu and died shortly afterwards. Dad felt like that was a double whammy.
A maternal uncle was on a college tennis scholarship, when Pearl Harbor happened. He was 20 years old and volunteered for the Army in January 1942. He served with the 1st Cav in the South Pacific until the war ended. After the war, he became a hermit, who worked and stayed away from families and friends for two decades. He had what, we now call PTSD. Fortunately, he met a good woman, who brought him back to his family. I never got to know what he was really like. I had left home and the area to live my life after college.
I have a ton of ancestors via Ancestry.com, who fought and some were killed or wounded in our wars from the French and Indian war, to the 2 wars with Britain, the Spanish American war to WW1/2, Korea and Nam. Many were killed or seriously wounded. Many left widows to raise their orphaned children.
I had classmates and friends, who never made it back from Nam. Many who did were like my uncle post WWII.
In the civil war not only the men suffered, many of their wives, mothers and daughters lived shorter lives and apparently had a lot of health problems during and after the civil war. They survived with a minimal widow’s pension.
So, I have zero tolerance for those, who spit on our flag or pull the knelling crap before NFL games. That bs started out here with Former Niners and their Che loving QB..
President Trump realizes this reality and has put the NFL owners and Thugs on a barbecue spit that is slowly turning and turning their pampered worlds upside down.
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