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Texans coach Bill O'Brien says he'll take knee with players during anthem
ESPN ^ | 12 June 2020 | Sarah Barshop

Posted on 06/12/2020 1:39:01 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze

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To: Sgt_Schultze

Maybe they need to quit playing the anthem and take the politics out of the game.


141 posted on 06/12/2020 6:58:31 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Fire him!


142 posted on 06/12/2020 7:00:14 PM PDT by yoe (Want to HELP the Slave Trade and Drug Cartels in USA? Vote for a democrat........)
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To: hawkaw

I think that would be a smart move.


143 posted on 06/12/2020 7:00:46 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: hawkaw

That would be like telling people what they do in their own bedroom is their own business. That’s not what they want. They need to put their ideology in your face.


144 posted on 06/12/2020 7:12:08 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Why doesn’t he just bend over, drop his drawers, and take one for the team????


145 posted on 06/12/2020 10:12:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The TEXANs? HOUSTON TEXANs???? My Gawd.

I imagine Nazzi has the inside track to be their next head cheerleader


146 posted on 06/12/2020 10:14:08 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Not that it matters, but this is just the kind of crap that made the XFL actually interesting. Those guys seemed interested in playing football, not virtue signaling. Too bad the XFL folded under now questionable pandemic restrictions.


147 posted on 06/13/2020 6:28:14 AM PDT by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA P)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

That will go over well in texas. A bunch of multimillionaires kneeling to protest how oppressed they are. Good visual


148 posted on 06/13/2020 6:29:41 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: alloysteel; V K Lee; Liz

Maybe NFL football needs to have another sort of affirmative action in the interest of fairness.

We need a far more inclusive and enlightened form of affirmative action in football.

Namely, the NFL should let neither competence nor race determine who gets multi-million dollar NFL player contracts.

Seems that a lot of mediocre-but-hard-working players have been discriminated against due to their lack of body weight and/or height.

I vote that the NFL set an aggressive policy to limit overall team body weight and height. In the interest of better reflecting the average American’s height and weight, they should not discriminate by hiring people of the best ability.

The current system is evil because it’s driven by the capitalist sin of hiring people who are the best at what they do. We need to correct that problem and move to a more egalitarian and socialist system that “levels the playing field” so-to-speak.

Think of it this way. Across the United States, kids playing soccer and softball are given “participation trophies” to reward their efforts. By giving professional athlete recognition to these sports participants, we spread the “good cheer” and send a message of hope that failure and incompetence can be fulfilling and be rewarded after all. It’s a great unifying message for our nation.

For this campaign, I recommend using the catchy slogan of “Short Athletes Matter” to drive public awareness for the policy change.

What’s more, up to now, women and trans-athletes have been totally excluded from NFL participation. That needs to change. And I think “Short Athletes Matter” will help correct this injustice.

By removing the prejudice of competence and “ability to win games”, we open up the sport of football to the same rigorous egalitarianism that has been so successful in the academic world and government.


149 posted on 06/13/2020 5:36:23 PM PDT by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The NFL and Bill O’Brien are going to take a knee in the groin.


150 posted on 06/13/2020 5:41:37 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Rummyfan

If you did take a knee over that, at least it would be about something that actually happened.


151 posted on 06/16/2020 2:53:05 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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