It looks as though NBC's plan to show NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem before the Super Bowl has been foiled. You can blame random chance, player morale, or cosmic justice, but the defilement of our National Anthem before the biggest TV audience of the year is unlikely to happen. Valerie Richardson reports in the Washington Times:
It appears that NFL players are no longer taking a knee during the [N]ational [A]nthem [–] namely[,] because none of the teams with still[] active protesters has qualified for the postseason.
By the end of the regular season, only five teams featured at least one player regularly sitting or kneeling on the sidelines for the anthem: the Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Giants[,] and the Oakland Raiders.
None of those franchises made the playoffs, even though four of the five did so in the previous season, leading to speculation about whether the take-a-knee protests wound up dragging down team performance along with TV ratings.
"By their actions, the kneelers brought controversy into the locker rooms, and this kind of distraction is always going to be detrimental to team cohesiveness," said Robert Kuykendall, a spokesman for the conservative corporate watchdog 2ndVote.
I’ll pass on the Super Bowl this year. I’ve had it with the NFL. That vermin Ludicrus will be performing at half time. He’s a perfect fit for the NFL, a filthy scum bag rapper. Check out his lyrics on line. An ignominious misogynistic barbarian. God, I can’t believe we’ve fallen so low. I wasn’t surprised to learn that he and Obama were homies. There’s even a photo of them someplace. If a conservative “sang” such “lyrics” there’d be no end to the charges of sexism.
Hockey is very exciting. You are right in that you first have to learn the rules, but hey. What could be better than two groups of angry men on skates with sticks in a game where slamming into each other is not only allowed but virtually necessary..