Bill (10-13-2017)
The NFL said on Friday it has no plans to mandate players stand for the U.S. national anthem, but will rather present a possible solution on how to end the controversial protests when it meets with team owners next week.
Commissioner Roger Goodell, along with the head of the NFL Players Association, will meet with the owners from Oct. 17-18 in New York where the issue of player protests during the U.S. national anthem is expected to command much attention.
"(Goodell) has a plan that he is going to present to owners about how to use our platform to both raise awareness and make progress on issues of social justice and equality in this country," NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said on a conference call.
"What we don't have is a proposal that changes our policy, we don't have something that mandates anything. That's clear. If that was the case I doubt the head of the NFLPA would have put a joint statement out with us."
The statement released on Wednesday said Goodell invited NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith to the meetings and that the agenda will be a continuation of how to make progress on the important social issues that players have vocalized.
The protests, in a league where African-Americans make up the majority of players, have continued through the current season, with some players kneeling and others standing arm-in-arm in solidarity.
The gesture is intended to call attention to what protesting players see as a pattern of racism in the treatment of African-Americans by U.S. police.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...cid=spartandhp
In other words, fuck Trump.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Bill (10-13-2017)
‘Thursday Night Football’ Ratings Dip
http://deadline.com/2017/10/eagles-win-no-national-anthem-thursday-night-football-ratings-panthers-nfl-cbs-1202187779/
Bonus irony: The Panthers lost. To the Eagles.
Speaking of the NFL a credit suisse analyst lowered Fox's earnings forecast because of declining NFL ratings. This is just one analyst but the bottom line of the league is clearly being hit.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/nfls...ttom-line.html
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Let'm kneel, let'm lock arms, let'm roll out a charcoal grill and make hot dogs, whatever......they've shown what they are and what they like to do on the job. They're privileged, spoiled and elite having nothing in common with the fans who for the most part must obey bosses at their jobs and leave personal baggage and worldly concerns at home. Their precious money will dry up because they've doomed their own business. They can go back home and pump gas for a living. They have spit in the faces of people of all races, colors and national origin whose money they took for their own millionaire lifestyle. Let'm pay for their own sjw causes.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Darth Omar (10-14-2017), Life is Golden (10-14-2017), OldMercsRule (10-14-2017)
No more Fords in their future
The brouhaha over the NFL protests doesn't show any sign of slowing down as the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana is refusing to buy Ford police vehicles over the company's support of the players right to protest.
In a letter addressed to Hixson Ford of Alexandria, Sheriff Julian Whittington said "Ford vehicles have been greatly utilized within the law enforcement community" but his department "will no longer purchase Ford products as long as Ford sides with these who have no regard for the men and women who protect and serve this great nation."
The letter goes on to state it is Whittington's hope the letter will cause Ford to "change their advertising choices and cease to support the NFL with advertising dollars until the NFL leadership demands its players show proper respect to our nations colors." The letter goes on to say players have a right to protest but the sheriff's office also has the right to spend their money elsewhere.
As Fox News reports, Ford has previously stated "We respect individuals' rights to express their views, even if they are not ones we share. That's part of what makes America great."
Ford's situation is particularly interesting as the Ford family owns the Detroit Lions and owner Martha Firestone Ford has previously said “Thanks primarily to our players, the NFL ... has been a unifying force in our country and impactful change has and hopefully will continue to be the result of peaceful expression, done so in order to highlight social injustices of all kind."
She also rebuffed President Trump by saying “Negative and disrespectful comments suggesting otherwise are contrary to the founding principles of our country, and we do not support those comments or opinions.”
http://www.carscoops.com/2017/10/louisiana-sheriff-refuses-to-buy-fords.html
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Stretch (10-14-2017)
The overpaid America hating ingrates can keep shitting on our flag and country and the owners can sit back watch their shit business go right down the toilet.
The NFL sucks.
Fake News!
NFL's Roger Goodell Says Players 'Should Stand' For National Anthem
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...ational-anthem
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Bill (10-14-2017)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
OldMercsRule (10-14-2017), Stretch (10-14-2017)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
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