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Huey » 25 Sep 2017 1:54 pm » wrote: You gonna pay the players if the revenue stream dries up?

Huey » 25 Sep 2017 1:54 pm » wrote: The stands at many games were mighty empty this week. And sponsors DO NOT like low ratings. And broadcasters do not pay billions for the right to broadcast when the ratings plummet.

Good luck with that.

Cannonpointer » 25 Sep 2017 1:57 pm » wrote:No.

You gonna be their conscience, when they alienate themselves from the ones God gave them?
Forcing grown men to abandon their conscience for money is the devil's work.

Bad luck with that.

Huey » 25 Sep 2017 1:59 pm » wrote: You are done.

Trump also lashed out at game officials for enforcing rules designed to protect players from dangerous hits, saying penalties are “ruining the game.”

His sharp words come in the same week it was revealed that former NFL player and convicted murderer, Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide in jail, had the debilitating brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

ccording to the Mayo Clinic, CTE is “likely caused by repeated head traumas. …

It has been found in the brains of people who played contact sports, such as football, as well as others.”

Trump made no reference to dangers, only penalties.

“Fifteen yards, throw him out of the game,” he said according to video of the speech.

“They had that last week. I watched for a couple of minutes.

Two guys just really beautiful tackle, boom, 15 yards.

The referee gets on television, his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him — they’re ruining the game. Right?

They’re ruining the game.

Hey look, that’s what they want to do.

They want to hit, but it is hurting the game.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/n ... 696109001/

[url=http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=969640#p969640]Misty » 25 Sep 2017 1:57 pm[/url] » wrote:

Maybe Sarah Sanders can explain to my Grandkids why it's okay for the POTUS to curse and not them.

PostmodernProphet » 25 Sep 2017 2:12 pm » wrote:why wouldn't it be okay for your grandkids to call the protesters sons of bitches?.....

Huey » 25 Sep 2017 1:45 pm » wrote: The comments are the forum, numbnuts.

Picking apart your false narrative does not mean I am defending his actions.

Idiot.

Huey » 24 Sep 2017 6:30 pm » wrote:Sorry bitch, but I disagree with trump on this. If you read what I wrote about it you wouldn’t come across as an idiot loinfo. Lmao at your ignorance. Again.

*******, if you paid attention ENTIRE TEAMS are protesting. *******, if you paid attention, you would see white players standing in solidarity last week.

Nope. You are a loinfo swayed by your talking point masters. Get the **** out of here. You ain’t smart enough to be involved in the conversation.

Cannonpointer » 25 Sep 2017 1:40 pm » wrote:Then tell your fingers, sparky, and stop defending his positions while attacking the people he attacks.
Dumb ****.

PostmodernProphet » 25 Sep 2017 1:05 pm » wrote:I seem to recall a television interview in which she repeated it.....

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In what may be an unprecedented move, the White House appeared to call for a TV personality to be fired.

It followed a tweet earlier this week by ESPN anchor Jemele Hill in which she called the president "a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists."

https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/trump-ca ... premacist/

Misty » 25 Sep 2017 2:50 pm » wrote: *******, if you paid attention you would know what the protests are about.

Lmao at your ignorance. Again.

And there were NOT entire teams protesting until 45 opened his big fat racist mouth.
What he said.

crimsongulf » 24 Sep 2017 6:52 pm » wrote: They are on the clock.

So what does the NFL say about the National Anthem? Nothing at all in the rule book. The words “National Anthem” are not mentioned once.
NFL Spokesman Brian McCarthy did give additional guidance back in August of 2016 when Colin Kaepernick first “took a knee” in protest. The statement to NBC’s Sports said “players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the National Anthem.”
The closest mention in the NFL’s rule book might be the “Personal Messages” section found on page 23, article 8. That section prohibits players “from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration” during pregame, while on the bench or during post game interviews. However, it does not give any guidelines on how the players should present themselves during the National Anthem.

Huey » 25 Sep 2017 2:57 pm » wrote:
Yeah, I guess you missed las weekend ya stupid bitch. Where white and black players were supporting the protestors thru locked arms and hands shoulders, etc.

Go back to your stupid pictures and peanut gallery threads.

Cannonpointer » 25 Sep 2017 3:10 pm » wrote:

Got anything else?

crimsongulf » 25 Sep 2017 3:22 pm » wrote: The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and

Huey » 25 Sep 2017 2:57 pm » wrote:Yeah, I guess you missed las weekend ya stupid bitch. Where white and black players were supporting the protestors thru locked arms and hands shoulders, etc.
Go back to your stupid pictures and peanut gallery threads.

Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee



In early 2016, I began paying attention to reports about the incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police.

The posts on social media deeply disturbed me, but one in particular brought me to tears: the killing of Alton Sterling in my hometown Baton Rouge, La.

This could have happened to any of my family members who still live in the area.

I felt furious, hurt and hopeless. I wanted to do something, but didn’t know what or how to do it.
A few weeks later, during preseason, my teammate Colin Kaepernick chose to sit on the bench during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

To be honest, I didn’t notice at the time, and neither did the news media.

It wasn’t until after our third preseason game on Aug. 26, 2016, that his protest gained national attention, and the backlash against him began.
That’s when my faith moved me to take action.

I looked to James 2:17, which states, “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

I knew I needed to stand up for what is right.

I approached Colin the Saturday before our next game to discuss how I could get involved with the cause but also how we could make a more powerful and positive impact on the social justice movement.

We spoke at length about many of the issues that face our community, including systemic oppression against people of color, police brutality and the criminal justice system.

We also discussed how we could use our platform, provided to us by being professional athletes in the N.F.L., to speak for those who are voiceless.

Cannonpointer » 25 Sep 2017 3:32 pm » wrote:...and there's the problem.

Forcing grown men to violate their conscience is a poor business model. That poor business model is biting team owners in the ***.

They **** up. They're now losing fans as a consequence.

Meanwhile, some men will put their conscience before the almighty dollar.

It will be very interesting to see how all of this shakes out.

crimsongulf » 25 Sep 2017 3:22 pm » wrote:Yes they are on the clock and they are an employee of the team owner. people overlook that these guys are employees, just like a CEO and a burger flipper.

crimsongulf » 25 Sep 2017 3:35 pm » wrote:There are rules and regulations in every line of work. In the corporate world, it was pretty frikkin ignorant to be required to hire a candidate based on their color. If they don't like it, they can simply find another line of work.

Misty » 25 Sep 2017 3:34 pm » wrote: Haven't you heard?
45 says locked arms are okay, but he believes that players who take a knee should be fired.
(How many white players have taken a knee?)



Of course I guess he had to say that after his good friend Tom Brady locked arms with a black teammate.



Refresh my memory, did 45 go all ballistic when Tom Brady skipped out on a visit to the White House when his team won the Super Bowl like he's doing to Steph Curry now?
Did he disinvite Brady? LOL



I know you want to dwell in your denial that this is not about race, but the protests are all about racial injustice Sparky, so that makes it about race.

Misty » 25 Sep 2017 3:36 pm » wrote: And you seem to overlook the fact that a lot of the team owners are supporting their players in this.
Even those who supported 45 and gave him a whole lot of money.