Posted on 08/22/2017 12:46:31 PM PDT by detective
Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett said last week that it would take a white player to kneel for the national anthem “to really get things changed.” Seth DeValve is testing that belief.
The second-year Browns tight end knelt for “The Star-Spangled Banner” during Monday’s game in Cleveland against the Giants, part of a circle of more than a dozen players who bowed their heads in silent protest.
They were flanked by several more teammates who stood and put their hands on the kneelers’ shoulders.
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it is his right to do as he pleases.... that is what makes america great... not a song, or flag, or angry patriots... freedom.
let it go and lighten up francis.
I already have — I have cut THE WHOLE LEAGUE. And good riddance too.
I would like to thank all the entitled unindicted co-conspirators in the NFL for freeing up my Sunday afternoons this fall.
Let them celebrate their criminal buddies on someone elses time.
If Donald Trump wants to luck up 2020 he should make a statement about this on Twitter...guaranteed to get him more votes.
Yes! I don't think political protests of any kind belong in any workplace. Employees should protest on their own time and not at a place of business.
I don't understand why owners and the NFL allow this to go on. Employers have a right to set rules for how employees dress and how they behave. Consumers want to enjoy products/services/performances/sports without politics being inserted - or they'll no longer consume the offerings.
That actually happened to me last year when I posted on the jock sniffers thread that it was time to boycott the NFL .... compared me to ISIS
They were kneeling in prayer, not protest, during which spoken prayer America was described as the greatest country on earth. But since that doesn’t fit the media’s selected story line it’s been hardly mentioned.
We get the NFL Package free for awhile this year... I am cancelling tomm...
Great inspiration for the young watching football.
It’s time for a national day of abstinence scheduled for the first Sunday of the regular NFL season during which everyone in the country that despises the spitting on the National Anthem by these millionaires who have everything a kid could dream just turns off their televisions for the day.
And if that doesn’t wake them up do the same on the following Monday night, and every Sunday and Monday thereafter.
They want to politicize football; let’s politicize football. The NFL will either get the message, or fold. Enough already.
As for the NFL, try burning a flag outside your place of employment and see how long you keep your job. They can fix it; they just don’t have the guts to do it.
Does this count? I don’t regard the Browns as an NFL team anymore.
Replace them with a better team-University of Alabama!
Could that be because it looked like sympathetic protest, as was no doubt intended.
But, hey, they prayed so all is forgiven.
People want to spit on the flag, that’s their right, but we don’t have to finance their livelihoods by watching or attending their games.
If they want to pray at any other time, that is great.
But when the National Anthem is played the should stand and show respect for their country.
The purpose of these protests is to denigrate America and all patriotic Americans. It is to show their hatred and contempt for the United States. That is all it is.
Sorry but the Jets had dibs on that first. Maybe next year.
Nobody cares anymore.
PAB!
If you don’t like our nation, leave.
Exactly right. You have the right to disagree and stay but not disagree and be violent and tear what we have built apart. Leave if you think things are better elsewhere.
Right. Going along with someone spitting on the country’s anthem makes America great.
Tell me this. What are they protesting? Getting all these cops killed by random acts of violence lately? What?
You think you have the freedom to screw with your employer’s business? Try it sometime and you’ll see how free you are.
“it is his right to do as he pleases.... that is what makes america great... not a song, or flag, or angry patriots... freedom.
let it go and lighten up francis.”
If you admire people who refuse to stand for the National Anthem, that is your right.
If you admire people who spit on the American flag, desecrate and vandalize Veteran’s Cemeteries and burn the American flag that is also your right.
But I love this country. Football is a fun diversion. Patriotism and love of country is more important.
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