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NFL players, coaches, owners lock arms, kneel during national anthem
ESPN ^ | Sept. 24, 2017 | ESPN

Posted on 09/24/2017 11:05:00 AM PDT by Innovative

NFL players across the league knelt, locked arms and even refused to come out of the locker room during the national anthem Sunday. They were joined by coaches and even owners.

It is believed to be in response to President Donald Trump's comments and tweets this week on protests during the anthem.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthem; disney; disrespect; nationalanthem; nfl; nfldroptheknee; searchworks; shutupandsing; trumpnfl; trumpnflboycott
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To: Susquehanna Patriot
I was wrong on this issue... guess giving lunch money to the school bully isn't the answer. Thanks to all of you ...

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What's next? Burning the US Flag on the sideline of professional sports games?! freeper AzJoe

101 posted on 09/24/2017 11:58:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (What's next? Burning the US Flag on the sideline of professional sports games?! freeper AzJoe)
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To: odawg
I was wrong on this issue... guess giving lunch money to the school bully isn't the answer. Thanks to all of you ... I'm just sick about liberal elites pissing on everything that matters to us...

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What's next? Burning the US Flag on the sideline of professional sports games?! freeper AzJoe

102 posted on 09/24/2017 11:59:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (What's next? Burning the US Flag on the sideline of professional sports games?! freeper AzJoe)
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To: Seaplaner
STOP PLAYING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT THUGBALL GAMES.

that is surrendering without a fight.

103 posted on 09/24/2017 12:00:30 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Irish Eyes

Exactly. That’s what they wanted all along.


104 posted on 09/24/2017 12:00:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GOPJ

I put nothing past communists bent on destroying the country. They will do everything allowed.

Hell, they will probably do away with souvenir ring or bobblehead night and pass out Mao’s Little Red Book instead.

We absolutely owe it to our children to educate them on this and keep the away from liberals who would poison their minds into thinking this “cultural revolution” is something good and just.

You know what BLM calls whites who support their cause? Allies. Not friends, not even comrades, but allies, denoting their expendability when they are no longer useful.


105 posted on 09/24/2017 12:01:05 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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To: GOPJ

I put nothing past communists bent on destroying the country. They will do everything allowed.

Hell, they will probably do away with souvenir ring or bobblehead night and pass out Mao’s Little Red Book instead.

We absolutely owe it to our children to educate them on this and keep the away from liberals who would poison their minds into thinking this “cultural revolution” is something good and just.

You know what BLM calls whites who support their cause? Allies. Not friends, not even comrades, but allies, denoting their expendability when they are no longer useful.


106 posted on 09/24/2017 12:01:06 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“Use your internet smarts, find the head of marketing for some of the major NFL advertisers. Send that person a written letter.
Go after some of the smaller companies first. They are going to be more sensitive to criticism and the fear of loss of business.”

Excellent constructive suggestion. Hit them where it hurts, in their pocketbook.


107 posted on 09/24/2017 12:05:49 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative
NFL players across the league knelt, locked arms and even refused to come out of the locker room during the national anthem Sunday. They were joined by coaches and even owners.

They all huddled together in the locker rooms, hiding from the American national anthem, then played the North Korean national anthem as a show of hate for America.

108 posted on 09/24/2017 12:05:55 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Wuli
This is pure racism....aka....I hate whitey.

Note: The men in the picture are all millionaires. What are they accomplishing for blacks? Not a damn thing.

Time to do away with athletic scholarships.

109 posted on 09/24/2017 12:10:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: joshua c

I have been a monthly donor to Free Republic for about forever. I am a member of the 300 club.

Supporting of some so called conservative sites like Faus went away in the 2016 election as their never Trump bs became evident.


110 posted on 09/24/2017 12:11:00 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Innovative

111 posted on 09/24/2017 12:13:44 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Innovative

Angry

Furious

Outraged

If I watched NFL football, I would cease doing so today.

I hope these teams and their owners choke on their newfound poverty.


112 posted on 09/24/2017 12:14:37 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: boycott

113 posted on 09/24/2017 12:19:05 PM PDT by doug from upland (Rocket Man found out Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids - it's cold as hell)
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To: doug from upland

Remember this is ALL for Trayvon Skittles Martin and Michael Gentle Giant Brown.


114 posted on 09/24/2017 12:19:58 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: GOPJ

It’s tradition! Why stop, thereby caving to a bunch of haters? Anyone who supports these unpatriotic fools, is just encouraging their outrageous behavior. I know there are sports fans who will never stop watching, because they get a lot of enjoyment out of the games, but on the other hand, they are making a choice between supporting patriotism and deriving pleasure. It’s a free country; but it’s free because of the blood of patriots, many of whom, if they’d had their “druthers”, would have liked to have been watching their favorite sport, rather than fighting and bleeding on a battlefield. Getting rid of the anthem would be just another rip in the fabric of traditional American culture. We should hold close our traditional values, instead of giving them up to those who would destroy them.


115 posted on 09/24/2017 12:23:32 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: Salvation

Ask yourself—What would Red Grange do?
The North Koreans see this—and think—if they attack Americans will not fight for the hated flag and the unpopular Trump. This is aid to the enemies of freedom. Trechery by overpaid snobs. Tell em to go to North Korea!


116 posted on 09/24/2017 12:32:33 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: gaijin

Its not a racial question—its about who is a patriot! Who will stand for America and the American Way?


117 posted on 09/24/2017 12:34:52 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: GOPJ

Then they’ll kneel for some other reason. The national anthem isn’t the reason, it’s just an excuse.


118 posted on 09/24/2017 12:37:28 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Innovative

Perhaps it would be better not to perform the national anthem altogether during any NFL game so as not to desecrate it.


119 posted on 09/24/2017 12:39:42 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Everybody remembers the Black Power salutes at the 1968 Olympics....But how many remember this a few days later at those same Olympics?


120 posted on 09/24/2017 12:39:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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