Posted on 02/02/2020 11:26:16 AM PST by conservative98
One play. Five yards. A flag that wasn’t thrown.
Seven years ago at the Super Bowl, history was made when a 49ers receiver, unable to break free from the prying hands of a harassing cornerback, could not grab a pass on fourth-and-goal that would have given San Francisco the go-ahead score late in the game against the Baltimore Ravens.
The Niners lost that game 34-31 and were relegated to the forgettable list of very good NFL teams who came in second place. For the man who threw that pass, Colin Kaepernick, things have never been the same.
The same could be said about the NFL.
The 49ers made it back to the Super Bowl this year, but Kaepernick had nothing to do with this trip. His name has barely been mentioned. In most instances, this would simply be another example of the relentless churn of players through a league that chews them up and spits them out. But at 32, Kaepernick could, conceivably, be in his prime. Instead, he has been out of the league for three years.
And yet, if there’s a single player who brought this league to a point of reckoning — who exposed it for what it is, what it is not, and what it could still be when it comes to shaping conversations about the American experience that cascade well beyond the football field — it is that now-unemployed quarterback out of Nevada who came 5 yards from winning the Super Bowl in 2013.
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He had the best season of his career in 2012 because with only 7 starts his run-pass option game was still new to opposing defenses. He won exactly one game in his final season, and on top of that (or to provide cover for that?) he became more of a distraction than his fading skills were worth.
Kneeling for the National Anthem
The Star-Spangled Banner provides the majestic musical/visual symbol of the Constitution I swore to support and defend as a Navy officer. My indefinitely binding oath requires standing for the National Anthem and kneeling to pray for the country.
The NFL, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Nike endorse the offense of kneeling when the anthem is played thereby disparaging the country and supporting social justice illusions. But veterans understand settling grievances requires revering the essence of our country and trusting its freedoms.
They are aware that when armed forces members make the ultimate sacrifice they are wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner in remembrance of freedom. When America’s fallen arrive at Dover Air Force Base from the Middle East their caskets are covered with a Star-Spangled Banner. When they are buried the flag is removed, elegantly folded, and given to a spouse, child, sibling, or parent.
Previously success was defined by marriage, raising kids, career, etc. Now a fashionable consensus defines success around one group adjusting behaviors to validate emotional damage others inflict upon themselves by using a paranoid screen for perceptions of brutality and prejudgment to shape their lives. The instigators gain prestige lacking dreams to pursue or accomplishment to celebrate. The subservient parties acquire costless moral superiority by holding themselves and the country in disgust.
I will always choose success through the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedom over sheltering within codependent relationships. This country needs “a new birth of freedom” faithful to the Constitution as the embodiment of American ideals.
Partial Bibliography: The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
Meaning of the Folding of the American flag https://www.truthorfiction.com/foldsoftheflag/
The Case Against Liberal Compassion https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-case-against-liberal-compassion/
Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr05.htm
Property by James Madison http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/property-by-james-madison-march-29-1792.html
Excellent.
BUT, I still think that PDJT and ALL of us should make a point of ‘thanking the kneelers’ for taking a moment to pray prior the game.
Won’t be long before the ACLU sues the NFL for allowing ‘prayer’ in a public venue, often ‘government’ owned or financed.
That will put a stop to it...
Oh, that would be so good.
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