Trump clashes with sports world over player protests, invitation

[Scott]

This personal bickering needs to cease.  It is obviously baiting and trolling.  

 

You have been warned.  

[Scott]

If you want your post to stay, you better use the correct spelling of names and stay on topic.  

[amvet]

Shock poll: NFL now least liked sport, core fans down 31%.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/shock-poll-nfl-now-least-liked-sport-core-fans-down-31/article/2636837

[amvet]

Vice President Mike Pence covered in another topic

Edited October 9, 2017 by amvet

[habanero]

On 9/25/2017 at 9:45 AM, Jingthing said:

No problem, dude.

After weeks of countenancing all sorts of national anthem protests and inchoate liberal platitudes given as justification for them, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell finally decided this week that he’d had enough.

In a strongly worded memo to the league’s team owners, Goodell wrote that “we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem” and that the league wanted “to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us.”

The anthem protests haven’t gone over well with the American public, but Goodell’s reversal didn’t quite go over so well in those corners of the NFL that have of late become an adjunct of the American far left. One player in particular, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, seemed to stop just short of promising open revolt if Goodell’s rather strong recommendation were to become official league policy.

 

"Someday you're going to have to tell me how CROW taste".

[FritsSikkink]

Hypocrite:

[Slip]

3 hours ago, habanero said:

After weeks of countenancing all sorts of national anthem protests and inchoate liberal platitudes given as justification for them, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell finally decided this week that he’d had enough.

In a strongly worded memo to the league’s team owners, Goodell wrote that “we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem” and that the league wanted “to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us.”

The anthem protests haven’t gone over well with the American public, but Goodell’s reversal didn’t quite go over so well in those corners of the NFL that have of late become an adjunct of the American far left. One player in particular, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, seemed to stop just short of promising open revolt if Goodell’s rather strong recommendation were to become official league policy.

 

"Someday you're going to have to tell me how CROW taste".

When you copy something from the internet you are supposed to give a source. 

 

Here you go:  http://todaydispatch.com/now-promising-required-stand-anthem/

 

 

Edited October 13, 2017 by Slip

[thaihome]

5 hours ago, habanero said:

After weeks of countenancing all sorts of national anthem protests and inchoate liberal platitudes given as justification for them, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell finally decided this week that he’d had enough.

In a strongly worded memo to the league’s team owners, Goodell wrote that “we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem” and that the league wanted “to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us.”

The anthem protests haven’t gone over well with the American public, but Goodell’s reversal didn’t quite go over so well in those corners of the NFL that have of late become an adjunct of the American far left. One player in particular, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, seemed to stop just short of promising open revolt if Goodell’s rather strong recommendation were to become official league policy.

 

"Someday you're going to have to tell me how CROW taste".

A slightly different take on Goodell's letter to the owners that actually addresses the issues rather then being just red meat to the base. 

TH 

 

Roger Goodell's Empty Letter to the NFL

The league’s commissioner pleaded for unity while masking the issues that led to the anthem protests in the first place.

...

I’m very proud of our players and owners who have done the hard work over the past year to listen, understand and attempt to address the underlying issues within their communities,” Goodell wrote, leaving specific “underlying issues” (police brutality, racism) unmentioned. Then, in a leap of logic, Goodell designated the actions that sparked the conversation—the protests that led to the very words he was presently writing—a distraction from dialogue: “The controversy over the Anthem is a barrier to having honest conversations and making real progress on the underlying issues. We need to move past this controversy, and we want to do that together with our players.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/roger-goodells-empty-letter-to-the-nfl/542586/

 

 

[Ramen087]

On 9/28/2017 at 11:23 AM, stevenl said:

You are making no sense. Somebody posts a vid of Jones saying people should stand for the flag, but forgets to tell he said that before the pre season. Looking at his own actions the situation has changed, and now you claim "Never let the timeline or the facts get in the way of a Trump bashing thread."

it would appear mr. jones does not approve of kneeling for the usa's national anthem, after all... oopsie, eh?

Edited November 7, 2017 by Ramen087