The NFL is dead to me!
Even watching it on tv provides revenue to the NFL via a ratings factor. So, I'm not going to watch Pro Football either. These guys, making more money playing one game on a Sunday afternoon, than many Americans make in a lifetime, and these guys have the nerve to bitch about some peripheral insensitivity of the US? Well, "F" them!
They are not making their fans very happy and the NFL had better wake up and learn that more than half of their supporters would prefer it if the players would at least show a little bit of respect for a great nation that has allowed them the benefit to making the enormous profits and earnings.
Ever gone to a military funeral? Officials hand the folded American Flag, that was draped on the coffin, to a spouse or family member with these words, "On behalf of a grateful nation." What part of "grateful" are these self centered, egotistical players and team owners demonstrating when they disrespect the very tenets of our American core values?
Listen, I get it, the First Amendment Rights and all, but why have they chosen to protest our National Anthem and the American Flag. When the NFL played that game in a different country a few weeks ago, the team members took a knee for the US National Anthem, and stood erect and at attention for the playing of the National Anthem of the country they were playing the game in. The world is watching folks.
I didn't see any Facebook posts, blogs or Twitter feeds from any of them to explain their actions, aside from jumping on a false, water down claim of "racism," which has become synonymous with simply disagreeing with the beliefs, actions or feelings of someone else.
Let them play their little game in some other country and see if they can match their incredible obscene pay as they have here in the US.
Is America perfect? I think not, but it sure is a hell of a lot better than any other country to live on this tiny blue marble floating around in the vastness of space.
I want to be entertained and amused when I watch football. Not lectured by a bunch of athletes who want to set national policy based on emotion rather than on the facts.
So NFL and players, when we raise the US Flag at your events, play the Star Spangled Banner or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, pay it the respect it deserves. Stand erect and be proud because the United States is greater than any other nation, politician or world issue. It stands for freedom and an exceptional way of life, even for the most "unfortunate" American.
...And do not forget or diminish the sacrifice of the lives lost to achieve and keep that status as a Nation!
They are not making their fans very happy and the NFL had better wake up and learn that more than half of their supporters would prefer it if the players would at least show a little bit of respect for a great nation that has allowed them the benefit to making the enormous profits and earnings.
Ever gone to a military funeral? Officials hand the folded American Flag, that was draped on the coffin, to a spouse or family member with these words, "On behalf of a grateful nation." What part of "grateful" are these self centered, egotistical players and team owners demonstrating when they disrespect the very tenets of our American core values?
Listen, I get it, the First Amendment Rights and all, but why have they chosen to protest our National Anthem and the American Flag. When the NFL played that game in a different country a few weeks ago, the team members took a knee for the US National Anthem, and stood erect and at attention for the playing of the National Anthem of the country they were playing the game in. The world is watching folks.
I didn't see any Facebook posts, blogs or Twitter feeds from any of them to explain their actions, aside from jumping on a false, water down claim of "racism," which has become synonymous with simply disagreeing with the beliefs, actions or feelings of someone else.
Let them play their little game in some other country and see if they can match their incredible obscene pay as they have here in the US.
Is America perfect? I think not, but it sure is a hell of a lot better than any other country to live on this tiny blue marble floating around in the vastness of space.
I want to be entertained and amused when I watch football. Not lectured by a bunch of athletes who want to set national policy based on emotion rather than on the facts.
So NFL and players, when we raise the US Flag at your events, play the Star Spangled Banner or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, pay it the respect it deserves. Stand erect and be proud because the United States is greater than any other nation, politician or world issue. It stands for freedom and an exceptional way of life, even for the most "unfortunate" American.
...And do not forget or diminish the sacrifice of the lives lost to achieve and keep that status as a Nation!
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