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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Black players started this before Trump was running for President.
The owners dropped the ball when they refused to put their foot down and enforce their own rule about players making political statements during games.
Trump would have to bring this up if you required your players to have at least double digit IQs, dumb*ss.
Jerry Jones: The main reason I am no longer a Cowboys fan.
Dude, you are losing....
Commie
Your football league is problematic Jerr. People will live without the NFL just fine.
From the viewpoint of most whites, still a significant segment of the country and of football plans, it just makes it look like black players are self-centered and unpatriotic.
And doing it in England... really.
I tend to agree.
0 the usurper occupant had no good reason to delve down into the beer summit and police acting stupidly.
Trump should not drill down to every item in the general news.
“Jerry Jones: The main reason I am no longer a Cowboys fan.”
You don’t say that you are no longer an NFL fan. If you are, you should be ashamed. It isn’t about one team, it’s about the whole stinking rotten league.
Real patriots don’t waste their time with the NFL!
The NFL can go suck a rock.
Bunch of damned thugs.
Normally I enjoy watching the Eagles thrash Dallas. This year I am going to enjoy it even more.
I survived just fine without it last year.
Part of this is Trump keeping up on a little payback to the NFL from his USFL days.
Jerry Jones is right about one thing: President Trump really shouldn’t give a sh!t about this at all. It’s entertaining as hell to see him comment on it ... but among the top 500 things the President of the United States needs to be concerned with, this ranks about #1,000,000.
It was the Cowboys’ putrid ownership long before it was the NFL. Better?
FUJJ you old fart!
Takes two seconds for him to comment on it, I think he can multi-task just fine.
It’s problematic for the NFL which is being run by Clintonistas. Whomever they eat but to blame, so long as the players use games to protest, a lot of people are giving up on the NFL. I don’t think Trump was even is needed for this reaction.
Maybe it’s just the NFL is problematic
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