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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #50 on: September 25, 2017, 11:04:01 am »
Anyway, did anyone else notice how quickly everyone forgot to be offended by the name of that football team in Washington (and I don't mean the Seahawks)?
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2017, 12:29:20 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on September 25, 2017, 11:04:01 am
Anyway, did anyone else notice how quickly everyone forgot to be offended by the name of that football team in Washington (and I don't mean the Seahawks)?
Well  it wasn't these guys....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2013/11/25/redskins-honor-members-of-the-navajo-code-talker-association/
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #52 on: September 25, 2017, 12:32:53 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 25, 2017, 12:29:20 pm
Well  it wasn't these guys....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2013/11/25/redskins-honor-members-of-the-navajo-code-talker-association/

Is this pic current?

That's RGIII's #10 in the background on the fan's jersey.  (although it's a red jersey and not burgundy) 
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #53 on: September 25, 2017, 12:34:07 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on September 25, 2017, 12:32:53 pm
Is this pic current?

That's RGIII's #10 in the background on the fan's jersey.  (although it's a red jersey and not burgundy)
No fooling fans. It is from 2013 when the team honored the Code Talkers.
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #54 on: September 25, 2017, 12:35:43 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 25, 2017, 12:34:07 pm
No fooling fans. It is from 2013 when the team honored the Code Talkers.

 :laugh:

I was thinking it was the Falcon's stadium...but was too lazy to look up who wore #10.

Would be surprised if any Skins' fans are still wearing it today.    :beer:
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #55 on: September 25, 2017, 05:08:35 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on September 25, 2017, 09:24:56 am
Makes me wonder about the racists... 100 players took the knee. According to Google there are 1600 players. I saw that 70% of the NFL is black, meaning that probably close to 1000 black players didn't take the knee. Are they "n-words" too?

Every team was not playing Sunday.
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #56 on: September 25, 2017, 05:11:08 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on September 25, 2017, 11:04:01 am
Anyway, did anyone else notice how quickly everyone forgot to be offended by the name of that football team in Washington (and I don't mean the Seahawks)?

Pretty soon they will be going after the "Washington", because he was a slave owner.
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #57 on: September 25, 2017, 05:27:13 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on September 25, 2017, 10:52:05 am
OTOH......

32 teams times 40 man roster = 1280 players

< than liberal news outlets could have reported this as :

UP TO 1180 PLAYERS CHOOSE TO NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN UN-PATRIOTIC PROTEST

The headline now says over 200.  It was 100 originally, but not all games had been played.

The article says "The league has 1,696 players on active rosters."

Also, so far as I could tell, they were referring to only those who knelt.  IMO, locking arms or doing anything but acting respectfully like a proper American is unpatriotic.

What disgusts me is why if they're pickled off at the president they feel the need to disrespect the nation to get their point across.  Would it kill them to save their emotions for the post game show, tweeter, etc?  A-holes.
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #58 on: September 25, 2017, 06:35:05 pm »
Some teams chose instead of a public protest  (kneeling or sitting)  to stay in the locker room until after the anthem, which is what the Seahawks, Titans, Steelers,  and some other teams did Sunday.   I think I would prefer the locker room option vs. the pathetic public protest. What our mom's called the "if you cant say anything nice don't say anything at all" option.

Up until 2009 the teams remained in the locker room until the anthem. Maybe they should just return to that and make it required across the NFL.   That would at least end this silliness.
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #59 on: September 25, 2017, 06:44:52 pm »
Quote from: NavyCanDo on September 25, 2017, 06:35:05 pm
Up until 2009 the teams players remained in had the option of remaining in the locker room until [after] the anthem.

@NavyCanDo

If you look at footage of games from back then, you'll see players standing respectfully on the sidelines.  Those of us who attended games can recall that, too.

For example, skip ahead to 1:02 at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-cuPKeEwg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-cuPKeEwg
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #60 on: September 25, 2017, 06:45:51 pm »
Quote from: NavyCanDo on September 25, 2017, 06:35:05 pm
...Up until 2009 the teams remained in the locker room until the anthem. Maybe they should just return to that and make it required across the NFL.   That would at least end this silliness.

I don't believe that is true.  Here is a video from 2008 showing players on the field during the anthem:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0kvlJQQRI
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #62 on: September 25, 2017, 06:47:15 pm »
Quote from: NavyCanDo on September 25, 2017, 06:35:05 pm
Up until 2009 the teams remained in the locker room until the anthem. Maybe they should just return to that and make it required across the NFL.   That would at least end this silliness.

No they didn't.  I can't tell you how many NFL games I've watched where they were on the sidelines for the anthem.  They had to be because they immediately got ready for kickoff.

The NFL tightly scripts these games and fines teams if certain things don't happen within a certain amount of time.

At one point the fine for an NFL team was $17K per second a half time show ran over during a game.
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #63 on: September 25, 2017, 11:07:17 pm »
Quote from: thackney on September 25, 2017, 06:45:51 pm
I don't believe that is true.  Here is a video from 2008 showing players on the field during the anthem:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0kvlJQQRI

Sounds like I passed on fake news seen on Facebook. You guys are corrrect, players were on the field prior to 2009. 
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Re: The Latest: At least 100 NFL players kneel or sit in protest
« Reply #64 on: September 25, 2017, 11:47:58 pm »
Quote from: NavyCanDo on September 25, 2017, 11:07:17 pm
Sounds like I passed on fake news seen on Facebook. You guys are corrrect, players were on the field prior to 2009.

No worries...happens to all of us at some point.
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