Weekly Thread. 9/13/17. What’s everyone think about sports figures sitting or kneeling for the National Anthem?

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• Here's the epitome of irony: Colin Kaepernick, the NFL's SJW, has never bothered to register to vote.

  https://bluntforcetruth.com/figures-colin-kaepernick-has-never-registered-to-vote/

• Maybe the best and last word on the NFL strike comes from a Facebook post by the widow of the American Sniper:

  Dear NFL,

  You were doing your part to bring people together and heal the world. That’s really how healing works. We heal by loving each other and leading by example; showing people what is possible when we love each other just as we are and not only recognize our differences but celebrate them and look at how we can use them together to make us jointly better than our separate parts. You were doing your part celebrating each other based on skills, talent and a joint vision without regard to color and religion.

  You were doing your part and we were doing ours. We showed up cheering and groaning together to as one. We talked in the concession lines and commiserated and celebrated our team together. Did it ever occur to you that you and we were already a mix of backgrounds, races and religions? We were already living the dream you want, right in front of you.

  Your desire to focus on division and anger has shattered what many people loved most about the sport. Football was really a metaphor for our ideal world — different backgrounds, talents, political beliefs and histories as one big team with one big goal — to do well, to win, TOGETHER.

  Your desire to focus on division and anger has shattered what many people loved most about the sport. Football was really a metaphor for our ideal world — different backgrounds, talents, political beliefs and histories as one big team with one big goal — to do well, to win, TOGETHER.

  You are asking us to abandon what we loved about togetherness and make choices of division. Will we stand with you? Will we stand with our flag? What does it mean? What does it mean if we buy a ticket or NFL gear? What does it mean if we don’t? It is the polar opposite of the easy togetherness we once loved in football.

  It was simple – we loved you and you loved us – with all of our races, religions, different backgrounds and politics. Simplicity in a crazy world was pretty awesome.

  You dear NFL, have taken that. You have lost me here.

• First sunday of my life when nfl was on and I did not watch a single play

• F them! Go move to NorKo or Venezuela and try that crap!

• Has it occurred to anybody else that Colin Kaepernick has been elevated and revered by the mainstream media for the exact same gesture that got Tim Tebow mercilessly mocked?

  • DON'T get me started 🤐

• How to drive up Pike's Peak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg6L_7qLIEQ

  • I'll take motorsports over a ball game any day. And don't hold your breath waiting for NASCAR drivers to "take a knee."

• Sheila Jackson Lee just kneeled on the floor of the House. Too bad we didn't know she was gonna do that ahead of time, we coulda taken bets as to whether she would be able to get back up.

  • I feel sorry for whoever was behind her.

• I've not watched a game in years because most of these boys are overpaid jocks who aren't deserving of my time and attention.
  Villanueva is a creep for backpedaling.
  Figures he was an officer.

• They don't hate all cops, just the ones who constantly arrest them for beating the crap out of one of their baby-mamas

• Then there was this guy:

  http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/24/former-army-ranger-is-only-steelers-player-to-stand-for-national-anthem-video/

  The whole Pittsburgh team stayed in the locker room for the national anthem, a particularly cowardly way to handle the controversy, but ain't NOBODY gonna tell a former Army Ranger who served multiple tours in Afghanistan that he has to stay in the locker room for the national anthem. NOBODY.

  • Looks like he apologized for his "actions". He actually stated he feels embarrassed every time he looks at that picture of him standing alone. And to think, most people were cheering for this guy for standing up for what's right. So sad.

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/21516/steelers-military-vet-who-stood-anthem-apologizes-hank-berrien

    • He didn't make his teammates took bad. THEY did that themselves.

    • He looks worse now than if he had just hidden in the locker room with the rest of the losers. This is how we are raising young people now, to bow before the precepts of political correctness instead of being proud of standing alone when you are right. Sad.

  • Except coach Mike Tomlin expressed his disappointment that Alejandro Villanueva didn’t remain in the locker room, stating he wanted 100% to participate in the act of abstaining from the anthem entirely.

    • I guess it's a question of who has the greater moral authority, the guy who served his country on the battlefield as an Army Ranger or the prima donna football coach who's trying to hide from the national anthem.

    • Tomlin is a tool extraordinaire 😡