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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Neither did Donald Trump. I'm not sure what that has to do with this issue.
The sea shore Oxnard or the onion fields Oxnard?
BLM founded on a lie, the Gentle Giant was a martyr
Pissing on the USA and Whitey not just once but
every week
The same people who buy tickets and gear that pays their huge salaries
Ignoring the black on black holocaust in inner cities and blaming
others for their social ills despite multi-$T in subsidies
Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones will not bend
on his edict that his players will stand for the national anthem,
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This should not even be an issue. It is and now the NFL will have
to solve the problem by inserting a version of the NBA Rule about
decorum during the playing of the anthem. It should not have been
an issue in the NFL but they failed many years ago by not having
it in their rules.
It’s problematic for NFL ratings, not Trump’s ratings.
Then stop coddling the cop-killer-loving women-beaters.
Ditto.
Jerry has bigger problems he should be trying to resolve — like winning football games — instead of worrying about Trump and the National Anthem.
NFL players have been coddled ever since the first time they played peewee football. They've been playing in front of thousands of adoring fans their whole lives (as opposed to MLB or NHL players who had to ride buses in the minors). They have no basic living skills, and most are broke 2 years after they retire.
Hah. I didn’t know Jerry Jones was idiotic. But he is.
The Flag and the National Anthem are our official national symbols, by law. Our nation, which they represent, is based on the Constitution, nothing more, nothing less.
The President has to defend the Constitution. By law. The Flag and the Anthem represent the Constitution.
He’s just doing the job the nation elected him to do.
The Constitution is amended. The 13th amendment is part of the Constitution, therefore, the Constitution, our nation, along with its symbols, Flag and The Anthem, represent abolishment of slavery. The framers made the Constitution amendable therefore they are included in this honor. They knew they were not perfect and made allowances.
Freedom of expression in the first amendment guarantees that these people who protest our nation are not violating the law, and that may or may never be up for debate for the future, but they are not protected by the Constitution they protest (the 1st amendment) from the effects of their actions such as public and free market disapproval.
All I know it was black.
The NFL has been masquerading as a patriotic organization since the very beginning.
Now, we all see that this is nothing but a cynical lie. That they don't care at all about the country, and they are beholden to lefties who hate the USA and everything we stand for.
People do not like being played for fools.
We will not forget.
It’s primary, actually. Short job mission statement :
The President, before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
So the employees are pissing off more than half the customer base and it’s the fault of the president that business is not good?
Oh, and, the Anthem does not represent racism. Not in any way.
The Constitution has nothing to do with what a bunch of overpaid thugs in a professional sports league do before a game.
Jerry has always been a two faced @$$hole.
Trump didn’t cause that and he would still be one regardless.
He has earned and assiduously maintains that reputation even outside of people who care about sports.
No news here.
Yeah, I’ll watch my next Cowboys game as soon as Jones apologizes to Tom Landry.
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