Posted on 09/25/2017 11:09:40 AM PDT by mandaladon
During the playing of the National Anthem prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Chicago Bears game on Sunday, left tackle Alejandro Villanueva was the only Steeler to come out and stand.
According to Pennlive.com, Villanueva’s action caught teammates by surprise — as it had been voted on a day earlier, and decided by a slim majority that the team would remain in the locker room.
“I was looking for 100 percent participation,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said during his post-game news conference. “We were going to be respectful of our football team.”
On that basis, Fox Sports 1’s Skip Bayless agreed that Villanueva — a former Army Ranger with a distinguished service record in Afghanistan — should not have come out for the Anthem.
“It didn’t work for him to step out of the tunnel,” Bayless said during Monday’s edition of Undisputed. “If, in fact, you had all agreed, you had voted whether a majority or unanimously, to do this as a team to stay up in the tunnel until the Anthem was done. And Mike Tomlin was clear.”
Bayless’s colleague, Shannon Sharpe, agreed.
Teams, they always take the military mentality, because it’s all for one, one for all. Whatever we decide to do that’s what we’re going to do. He went on his own. I get it. He was in the military. I commend him for his service.
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Fork you, Skip and Shannon, you unwatchable morons.
How DARE you!!
Shannon Sharpe is an insincere idiot!
Football, on the friendly fields of strife, is nothing like real war where men lay down their lives and commanders lay down their men's lives for that Star Spangled Banner and the Nation of Freedom it represents.
Those those who don’t know, Bayliss published unsubstantiated rumors about Aikman being gay.
Bayless should change his name to Clueless for not seeing the double standard of “doing things as a team” after players were allowed to make political statements against what the majority for what the team was doing. Shannon Sharpe is just being the consistent race baiter that he is.
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