Reply With QuoteRune (10-20-2017)
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NFL to Donald Trump -- FUCK YOU
NFL rejects rule change that would force players to stand for the national anthem
Owners met with players on Tuesday and discussed ways they can work together for positive change on social issues.
All eyes have been on NFL players who are protesting police brutality and racial inequality during the national anthem. On Tuesday, NFL owners decided against a mandate that would have required players to stand for the anthem going forward. There will be no rule change, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
There apparently wasn’t even a vote that took place among owners ..
On Tuesday, commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters at a press conference, “We believe everyone should stand for the national anthem, it’s an important part of our game.” He also stressed that he understood the concerns of the players, and that he felt the league could help them combat the societal issues.
On Monday, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote a letter to the NFL in support of players who protest during the national anthem. The letter invoked Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail to white clergymen who were opposed to racial injustice but disagreed with the method of civil rights protests in 1963.
Dr. King hoped in his letter that those he was writing to would see the “justice of our cause,” and I hope the same for you and others. I understand your discomfort with kneeling during the National Anthem, but please understand our pain―pain that we as African Americans have carried since we were first brought to this country on slave ships.
Now these protests can continue with no official repercussions for players.
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/17/...layer-protests
NFL won’t change policy to force players to stand for national anthem
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league and its owners didn't discuss discipline for players who don’t stand during the anthem.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/footb...al-anthem.html
Trump unhappy NFL won't force players to stand for national anthem
http://www.mlive.com/sports/2017/10/...t_force_p.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.
Rune (10-20-2017)
Let's go Brandon!
Let's see where this gets you lol
liberalsAREracists (10-20-2017), Truth Detector (10-20-2017)
High Level of Addiction
The rules already require it.
America tells NFL fuck you.
This gravy train is off the rails. Let's see who this hurts.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
liberalsAREracists (10-20-2017), Life is Golden (10-21-2017), Stretch (10-20-2017)
The Force is With Me
A. The rules do not currently require it.Originally Posted by Celticguy
B. If the rules already require it, why did they meet to discuss making a rule?
C. If so, why isn't that rule being enforced?
D. If the rules require it, why did Jerry Jones have to make up his own?
E. Did your read the title of this thread?
Next question .. If your side is so powerful and the NFL is being so roundly rejected, why isn't the league down 30% instead of 7.5%?
NFL ratings down 7.5% as Goodell says league won't force players to stand
October 18, 2017
Many have blamed the decline on this year’s national anthem protests, during which players have knelt during the pre-game singing of the Star-Spangled Banner to call attention to racial injustice in the United States. Trump called players who protest “sons of bitches”, and surveys have shown a majority of white fans disapprove of the movement (in contrast, black fans are generally supportive). However, it is unclear how big a part player protests have played in the drop: Nascar drivers and teams have not joined in the protests – indeed, some owners are openly hostile to the movement – but viewing figures have fallen just as steeply.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...nick-grievance
Why isn't NASCAR booming?
I think we already know who this hurts and who it exposes.
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.
zappasguitar (10-20-2017)
Truthmatters
its you who will be left behind silly
white racists cant last long in a browning world.
we love each other
you hate us for loving each other
what you want (whites only world) is impossible for you to obtain
what will you do?
go all Isis on us?
why not just take your racist ass over to the middle east and fight Isis?
its as close as you will get to what you want the world to be.
you hating brown people and trying to kill them
blackascoal (10-20-2017)
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Trump's ugly battles with the NFL go way back
There was Pete Rozelle, the NFL's longtime commissioner.
There was Donald Trump, Manhattan-based real estate mogul and owner of the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, which was in its second year.
There was Leslie Schupak, senior managing partner at KCSA Worldwide, the USFL's marketing and public relations firm. I spoke with Schupak on multiple occasions last year as I was reporting my eighth book, a look back at the long-defunct USFL.
The meeting, held in March 1984, concerned Trump's desire to possess an NFL franchise. Although he owned the Generals and spoke publicly of his love for the USFL, Trump (according to many people who knew him) anxiously wanted to ditch the upstart for the money and fame of the bigger league. Hence, said Schupak, Trump invited Rozelle (a man he knew casually through scattered social encounters) to meet, and had Schupak -- with whom he had bonded -- tag along.
Schupak remembered it well. "They arrive, and even before Pete can stop talking on a casual basis, Donald starts his diatribe on how great he (Trump) would be for the NFL, and what it would mean to the NFL to have him as a franchise owner," he said. "Donald is going on in his typical style, telling Pete Rozelle what he believes in, why he would be wonderful. It was typical Donald, in that Rozelle couldn't get a word in."
According to Schupak, Rozelle, who died in 1996, seemed to be under the impression Trump extended the invite to discuss relations between the two leagues. When he realized what Trump was after, he turned cold and blunt. "Mr. Trump," Rozelle told him, according to Schupak, "as long as I or any of my heirs are involved in the NFL, you will never be a franchise owner in the league."
The meeting ended shortly thereafter. Not surprisingly, Trump remembered the meeting very differently, in testimony he gave in 1984 during the USFL's antitrust case against the NFL (which we will get back to shortly). Trump told jurors that Rozelle promised him an NFL franchise.
He did not get one. Donald Trump was never a franchise owner in the NFL.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/opinio...man/index.html
So essentially, the NFL is saying fuck you to Donald Trump AGAIN.
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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Get a life, my friend. This will have zeroing term effect on the NFL.
BIDEN WON.
Pfffttthhhhh!!!!!
When I start seeing half full or less stadiums every Sunday from now until January I'll believe that nonsense.
But we all know that there just ain't no way in hell Americans are going to abandon their number one favorite spectator sport over something most people don't really care that much about.
Stop and think about it for a minute... how many football fans across the US, sitting in their living rooms in front of their TV sets, bother to put down their beer and stop stuffing nachos into their faces long enough to stand up for the anthem themselves?
Almost none of them.
C'MON MAN!!!!
blackascoal (10-20-2017)
High Level of Addiction
So, what else is new? Whatever these bitter self-serving jocks do doesn't mean squat to the average working joe...we have real lives to live...all entertainers have their own world with angry little lives to live, swearing and cursing at everybody and filled with hate. Go for it.
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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.
Canceled
Interesting characterization of guys who are risking their careers to stand up for equal rights for those less advantaged than they are.
blackascoal (10-20-2017)
BIDEN WON.
When was the last time you put down your pizza and beer and stood up for the anthem as a game was starting?
Oh wait, you've never done it.
GTFOH.
C'MON MAN!!!!
High Level of Addiction
Why didn't they enforce the rule ? The were scared and hoped it would go away. It didn't.
Stands are empty but next season those season tix will be hard to sell. 7.5 is enough to cost them tv money which pays the players.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Insane Level of Addiction
Yeah, run with that race hustler.NFL rejects rule change that would force players to stand for the national anthem
Owners met with players on Tuesday and discussed ways they can work together for positive change on social issues.
All eyes have been on NFL players who are protesting police brutality and racial inequality during the national anthem. On Tuesday, NFL owners decided against a mandate that would have required players to stand for the anthem going forward. There will be no rule change, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
There apparently wasn’t even a vote that took place among owners ..
On Tuesday, commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters at a press conference, “We believe everyone should stand for the national anthem, it’s an important part of our game.” He also stressed that he understood the concerns of the players, and that he felt the league could help them combat the societal issues.
On Monday, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote a letter to the NFL in support of players who protest during the national anthem. The letter invoked Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail to white clergymen who were opposed to racial injustice but disagreed with the method of civil rights protests in 1963.
Dr. King hoped in his letter that those he was writing to would see the “justice of our cause,” and I hope the same for you and others. I understand your discomfort with kneeling during the National Anthem, but please understand our pain―pain that we as African Americans have carried since we were first brought to this country on slave ships.
Now these protests can continue with no official repercussions for players.
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/17/...layer-protests
NFL won’t change policy to force players to stand for national anthem
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league and its owners didn't discuss discipline for players who don’t stand during the anthem.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/footb...al-anthem.html
Trump unhappy NFL won't force players to stand for national anthem
http://www.mlive.com/sports/2017/10/...t_force_p.html
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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Why do you care what rules a private business enforces or doesn't enforce? Do you police other companies to make sure they're adhering to internal guidelines?
Will it be another feather in Trump's cap if he can ruin a multi billion $ American business?
Insane Level of Addiction
Wrong again LittleThingy; the one's ruining the multi-billion dollar business are the NFL owners and whiny millionaire dumbfucks who think taking a knee is not flipping the bird at America.
But you snowflakes run with it. We'll see how that plays out in the midterms and next Presidential elections.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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