Posted on 09/15/2020 5:51:27 PM PDT by montag813
by Joe Callen
Former legendary NFL player and coach Mike Ditka on Tuesday that he can't for the life of him understand why football players are protesting police brutality and racial injustice by refusing to stand for the national anthem.
And he's got a message for them they aren't going to like one bit:
"If you can't respect this country, get the hell out of it," Ditka said on "National Report."
"It’s not a complicated thing," he said. "You play the game, you enjoy the game, if you don’t like the game, get out of it."
He added, "You play football, that’s it. You’re privileged, you got a gift from God that you can play the game because you got a body you can do it with.
"I don’t really understand what you’re protesting. I played the game, I coached the game for a long time, and it makes no sense to me. You ought to get down on your hands and knees and thank God every day that you can make the kind of money that you can make playing football, or playing any sport."
Ditka added, "So, to me it makes no sense, you got the wrong guy."
He suggested that players who don't want to be on the field for the national anthem should "go to another country and play there."
Refreshingly old school. And judging by the collapsing ratings of this year's NFL games, it looks like the American people agree with him.
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Mike Ditka is truly an American treasure!
God Bless that man!
Prostitute Gladiators, getting paid King’s Ransoms for performing a child’s game.
What an utter waste of resources
I could not possibly agree more. But, not all agree. Even here on FreeRepublic.
I got into it this weekend with some Freepers that took offense at my calling them out for posting on this board NFL game crap.
Freepers calling me Holier Than Thou for calling them out for giving aid and comfort to those ungrateful SOB’s. Supporting the NFL’S un-American, BLM/Anifa actions by watching the games and giving them viewership numbers.
A true American Patriot!
Well said !!!!!!!!!!
If the owners cared about the NFL and had the courage to stand up to the treasonous players, they would make Mike Ditka the Commissioner. Alas, they don’t.
Never let up on those foot washing cucks. I am more than willing to get zotted for rubbing any NFL freepers nose in their own treason. They deserve to be ridiculed and belittled. It’s what cucks live for.
Do not attack their belly stuffing entertainment!
Loving Ditka more every day....
...signed, Baltimore Colts fan....
Ditka.
Almost ran for Senate.
He didn’t. Obama did and won. Ditka could have beaten him.
Imagine.
Failed in the biggest clinch. The super bowl of Super Bowls. I will never understand it. The whole country could have done so infinitely better. But he decided not to run.
“Mike Ditka is truly an American treasure!
God Bless that man!”
I lived in Chicagoland during Mike Ditka’s reign of “Da Bears” Superbowl championship team. Loved that man and his team then, and love the man now. I have retired to Florida, where I believe Ditka now lives, doesn’t he?
Dirks probably did not run because he knew that Dems would do everything in their power to ruin him and his family. Dems will accuse their enemies of things real and imagined and then the leftist press will side with the Dems, even their lies. Dems are so evil, almost unspoken extortion mafia style.
What kind of White man is his 40’s or 50’s wears the name of some twenty-something Black man that hates him on his back?
Only prison b#tches.
His wife wears one too.
Those who want to watch the NFL are welcome to do so, and even post about it here. if Jim-Rob is cool with it.
I don’t watch the NFL after the Kapernick fiasco and decided they had crossed a line that was unforgivable.
NooseCAR, MLB, and the NBA have joined them in the irrelevent list. Let them take a HUGE pay cut or the teams can fold. Either way their influence has waned and the sooner they disappear the better.
Hey, Freeperlites that still watch... You listening?
I know.
But Trump knew the same thing. And he ran.
I can’t think of a single professional sport that hasn’t caved.
And I do mean that. I’m more in the unpopular sports.
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