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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were WRONG for 'not listening' to Colin Kaepernick's protests against police brutality and that players can kneel from now on
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 06 2020 | SAM MCEVOY

Posted on 06/06/2020 3:49:57 AM PDT by knighthawk

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has admitted that they were wrong in the way they handled Colin Kaepernick's protest against police brutality of black people, which ultimately led to the quarterback to be without a club.

The NFL has been locked in an ongoing debate with players over kneeling protests during the national anthem before the start of games, a practice popularised by quarterback Kaepernick in 2016 to protest racial injustice and police brutality.

Kaepernick filed a grievance against the league in 2017, claiming collusion as no teams signed him after he parted ways with the San Francisco 49ers. The NFL and Kaepernick settled in 2019.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthem; football; kaepernick; kneel; nfl; sports
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1 posted on 06/06/2020 3:49:57 AM PDT by knighthawk
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Roger Goodell isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.


2 posted on 06/06/2020 3:51:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Possible general boycott of the football season?


3 posted on 06/06/2020 3:53:58 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: knighthawk

Hey, Goodell, I’m paying for my ticket to watch them run and throw, not kneel. If I wanted that, I would go to church and watch people kneel for free.


4 posted on 06/06/2020 3:54:26 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: knighthawk

America grow some balls and show this white flag kneeling puke what you think, SHUT IT OFF


5 posted on 06/06/2020 3:56:21 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (I WILL NOT KNEEL)
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To: RoosterRedux

He’s beholden to Nike.

Nike needs ill informed blacks to but their overpriced garbage.

So if course he promotes anything that is bad for the black community, including false victim hood


6 posted on 06/06/2020 4:04:43 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: knighthawk

Just when I was considering becoming a fan again...oh well, I really didn’t miss them much anyway.


7 posted on 06/06/2020 4:06:43 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: ronnie raygun

Hopefully people will turn off games especially on days such as Thanksgiving and return to the basics of what is important.


8 posted on 06/06/2020 4:11:35 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (We are NOT all in this together.)
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To: knighthawk

This is such BS. Show me. Be specific


9 posted on 06/06/2020 4:12:29 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (uNACA)
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To: Wpin

Same here.
Best case scenario they have to cancel the season anyway and they come to their senses by 2021.
If no I’m gone. Again.

And now the NHL is joining them too.


10 posted on 06/06/2020 4:14:07 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: buwaya

And I demand that the NFL and their TV partners STOP broadcasting the National Anthem before games.


11 posted on 06/06/2020 4:14:17 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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I went from watching the NFL quite religiously to watching the WWE when I heard the WWE is extremely patriotic and plays the National anthem very LOUD before each show with all the wrestlers standing, and they do. I went to a show last year and it was just like that. I don’t care if the wrestling is fake, the kids love it and I will never watch the NFL again.

Here they are paying tribute to our troops.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RWo8Zocu-k


12 posted on 06/06/2020 4:15:22 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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So Cowboys players cannot wear jams of police murdered by some thug, but they can kneel for the anthem? One gesture in unifying, the other decisive. The NFL chooses the decisive one. Goodell is an idiot.
13 posted on 06/06/2020 4:17:04 AM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Right now people are finding others uses for their time instead of watching hours of commercials interrupted by brief intervals of bread & circuses. Just as commercials see certain minorities as the best targets because they are among the last demographic that even watches regular TV, sports are realizing the same thing.

For all of its shortcomings, soccer still only has commercials at halftime.


14 posted on 06/06/2020 4:17:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: knighthawk

And yet come September the NFL cult will post thread after thread about the the league and their baby brothers, the collegiate SJWs.


15 posted on 06/06/2020 4:18:34 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Only THUGS will be watching football, Dope. This is totally DISSING our FLAG that people DIED for, and these THUGS have NO RESPECT for ANYTHING AMerican!


16 posted on 06/06/2020 4:19:16 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Roger Goodell isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer bowling ball on the rack.

Fixed it for ya. No charge. :-D

17 posted on 06/06/2020 4:24:10 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: knighthawk

Good Lord. No balls whatsoever. We don’t watch football anymore, anyhow.


18 posted on 06/06/2020 4:32:37 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? and let's get back to living!!!)
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To: buwaya

Got no dog in that hunt. I think I’ve only watched maybe ten complete football games in my life.

I won’t miss it but I hope every red white and blue American who does like the game takes a principled stand and refuses to support them at all.


19 posted on 06/06/2020 4:34:53 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: knighthawk

I wonder if I would become as stupid as the NFL representatives if I were to actually start watching football again?


20 posted on 06/06/2020 4:38:46 AM PDT by heshtesh
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