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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

Houston Texans head coach and general manager Bill O'Brien says he'll take a knee during the national anthem next season with his players to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

"Yeah, I'll take a knee -- I'm all for it," O'Brien told the Houston Chronicle. "The players have a right to protest, a right to be heard and a right to be who they are. They're not taking a knee because they're against our flag. They're taking a knee because they haven't been treated equally in this country for over 400 years."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthem; chatforum; football; houstontexans; nfhell; nfl; nofansleft; sports; takeaknee
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To: 2banana

Treating blacks like little babies is really going to be the answer to the problem.

my football watching season is over before it began. And this was the nail.


61 posted on 06/12/2020 2:00:26 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tis she the onehe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

When you have experienced job quota hiring, EBT cards, single parent welfare, reduced grade admissions to colleges, and then all of a sudden, you are being treated EQUAL, you feel discriminated against....


62 posted on 06/12/2020 2:01:54 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: dfwgator

The next film that will be pulled from Amazon Prime, Netflix, et al.

One of the funniest movies ever made. I think we went to the moves 10 times or more to see it. Fell over laughing every time.


63 posted on 06/12/2020 2:02:29 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: NotSoFreeStater

I’m lucky in that my cable company doesn’t carry MSNBC.

The bad news is our small, locally owned cable company was recently sold to Charter Spectrum. I hope they don’t decide to add that vile network.


64 posted on 06/12/2020 2:02:54 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“Welcome Down to my Planet Hell”- Nightwish)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

No law enforcement officer should ever be forced to provide security or assistance for these fools.


65 posted on 06/12/2020 2:04:48 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

College football is where they learn this stuff.


66 posted on 06/12/2020 2:06:07 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe
Nope.

And if this happens on opening day, literally 10,000 beers should rain onto the players

67 posted on 06/12/2020 2:06:31 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: Sgt_Schultze

They never learn. A NYPD cop has now apologized for taking the knee stance.


68 posted on 06/12/2020 2:08:37 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

And then they walk out. bye!


69 posted on 06/12/2020 2:08:44 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins)
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To: WashingtonSource

70 posted on 06/12/2020 2:10:16 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Mr President.

Please instruct the military, no fly overs. No jumps.
No military personnel at the stadium. No remotes from US bases overseas.
No recruiting commercials during NFL games.
Remove NFL games from Armed Forces Network.


71 posted on 06/12/2020 2:10:18 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The players run the NFL now. The commissioner, owners, and coaches are scared of them. The same goes for the NBA.


72 posted on 06/12/2020 2:11:08 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: 2banana

They’re taking a knee because they haven’t been treated equally in this country for over 400 years.”

They’ve been given more money, opportunities and breaks that all the rest of us, combined.


73 posted on 06/12/2020 2:11:30 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

/What a pandering putz

Way to keep the divisiveness going, you hypocrite POS


74 posted on 06/12/2020 2:11:41 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See St George's Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Sorry Billy, I’ll miss seeing you on the knee. I’m not watching the NFL this year. It’s all about college athletics from now on!!

Advertisers might pay enough to pay those exorbitant salaries, but then again, maybe not.


75 posted on 06/12/2020 2:12:58 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: VanDeKoik
I call them self-proclaimed victims. I'll never pay one damn dollar for reparations - let the IRS come after me. I didn't own a slave, and there are no slaves that exist now. I'm sick of this BLM crap. I'm even more sick of the Antifa/anarchist crap.

Keep it up you commies, trained snipers will start to activate. Mark my words.

76 posted on 06/12/2020 2:14:02 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Skywise

"You want to DO something? Move your team to Detroit or Minneapolis."


Maybe they should move their new team to Chaz.   They don't have an NFL team yet.   They could call their team the "Chicken-Noodles", and they could replace the National Anthem with "Pardon Me Boys, Is That The Chazzie Chicken-Noodles?".

77 posted on 06/12/2020 2:16:32 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Sgt_Schultze

That’s fine. When they take a knee, I turn their asses off.


78 posted on 06/12/2020 2:17:20 PM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: 2banana
They’re taking a knee because they haven’t been treated equally in this country for over 400 years.

He's talking about men who make millions of dollars to play a ball game for a living. LOL.
79 posted on 06/12/2020 2:18:00 PM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: vladimir998

“The sooner professional sports die the better.”

Grown men playing children’s games. If they continue to play then no flag, no song, and no police for security.


80 posted on 06/12/2020 2:18:18 PM PDT by chalkfarmer
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