Iowa football players put fans on notice: Support their movement or don't support the Hawkeyes

CBS Sports ^ | 6/8/2020 | Barrett Sallee

[john316]

Another pro sports league bites the dust.

[Pining_4_TX]

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Would someone tell the residents on the west side that black lives matter? They won’t stop shooting each other.

[workerbee]

Wow. I have neighbors who are flag-waving alumni of Iowa.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Terroristic threat

[dontreadthis]

they better not pull this crap in womens beach volleyball

[Fungi]

In other words, no diversity of thought or actions, no inclusivity of thought or actions, no freedom of speech, and most important, if you do not like what we are or say, you can stuff it. We must control your every thought and action, on and off the field and in front of your TV. Really? How nice of you!

FU and the horse you rode in on.

[hinckley buzzard]

A—holes. I guess there will be plenty of seats this fall to watch the Hawkeyes lose.

[PhiloBedo]

They certainly are full of themselves. It’ll be interesting to see how this taking a knee plays out.

[lee martell]

That is the most myopic, self centered, unfriendly memo from a player to the public note I’ve ever seen.
They really don’t get how inappropriate this is, and their coaches must be too afraid to speak up, presuming they could lose their jobs.
Woody Hayes (Ohio-Buckeyes) would never have entertained such a thought.

[wally_bert]

A lot of these theatrics will end when the bank accounts start drying up.

[Bernard]

Many of them are probably on scholarships, so the parent money would not enter into the calculation.

[DesertRhino]

Today my daughter told me about a similar experience. She graduated medical school last year in a school with a small class. She has always kept a very clean and benign social media presence so it didn’t affect her in the future. She told me that a few days ago, she got an instagram direct message that it had been “noticed that she had not posted anything supporting the movement”.

I am keeping my inner Tony Soprano suppressed at the moment.

[Kazan]

Thanks for the advice. I’ll pass it along to my relatives in Iowa.

[EnglishOnly]

Adios to the Hawkeyes!

[Grampa Dave]

No problem.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

No problem:

[ought-six]

“Wow. I have neighbors who are flag-waving alumni of Iowa.”

So do I. They are rabid Hawkeye fans. Knowing them as I do, this stunt is not going to sit well with them.

[workerbee]

HOLY CRAP.

[GnuThere]

Football weekends are pretty big in hugely liberal Iowa City, gosh, this must put the merchants and restaurants in a bind.
Now if we hear the same message from the wrestling program, then we know the world has ended.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Support a BIG lie or support the truth ? I know which I support.