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Posted on 12/04/2017 4:44:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux
New York Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon ignited an outcry after telling fans if they don’t approve of his decision to kneel for the national anthem, “don’t come to the game.”
The retort came after Vernon, the only member of the Giants still regularly taking a knee, told reporters that he had been heckled by fans in response to his season-long protest.
“You hear ‘coward’ and ‘stand up’ and ‘disgrace,’” Vernon said. “It’s fine. As long as nobody comes on the field and touches me. You stay where you at, you’re going to be all right. They have a right. Oh yeah, I hear it all the time. If they don’t like it, don’t come to the game.”
His comments, which ran Thursday in the New York Post, stunned former NFL quarterback and CBS Sports commentator Boomer Esiason, who called them an “out-and-out disgrace.”
He pointed out that Vernon signed last year an $85 million, five-year contract with Giants owner John Mara, the richest for a defensive end in NFL history.
“Here is a guy you gave $80 million to basically telling your fans, ‘If you don’t like it, don’t come,’” said Esiason on WFAN radio in New York City. “It is the most egregious act of defiance. It just blows me away.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
In Vernon’s defense, what he’s doing here is far less destructive to his employer’s business than what the leadership of the New York Giants has been doing with that team for the last four months. They couldn’t have done more damage to the team’s brand if the owners, management and the entire roster fled to Syria and joined ISIS.
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he’s a thug.....I could determine that after his first interview last year...seemed very entitled and had a chip on his shoulder.
I’m assuming that the only people who attend these “games” are America haters.
a classic kneegro in fact
And the Giants record reflect this idiots wish.
It's the most blatant display of arrogance and ignorance.........
I don’t think I would wear one even if it was given to me free.
Well maybe for mucking out the barn.
The NFL Shop would have to pay me a lot more than that to give me that crap.
Yeah, he reminds me of the guy who puts a pistol to his head and says, “Don’t laugh...yer next!”
Look for them on the racks at Goodwill soon. Then the panhandlers in NYC will be sporting them.
The NFL Players Union meetings can't be much fun lately.
way ahead of you buddy.
Vernon should worry more about his play than his political stances. Maybe if he played a little better the Giants wouldn’t be 2-10.
Sounds like a plan!
Players don't give a tinker's dam about those folks, do they...
Where does he think that 85 million is going to come from? How much of that is from taxpayer subsidies?
If a cat buys into the SJW BLM BS, then he’s a racist
Wonder what the reaction would be if white athletes protested against discriminatory admissions and employment policies and acts under phony “affirmative action” BS?
Or against black on white crime?
Would the media find use of the word “racists” by any chance?
Can do, Olive Oyl.
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