NFL Players Association exec dir: "We no longer can afford to stick to sports"

[HAB911]

We will never back down. We no longer can afford to stick to sports.

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. K&R for solidarity.

[Moostache]

2. Unions need to stand together or fall alone.

The lack of esprit de corps shown around the country is disheartening. There was a time in the labor movement when unions DID stand together and DID form picket lines that were inviolate. We have been beaten down and dismissed as an illegitimate ideology, vilified and spoken of like animals...but the fight for equality is essential for all.

Human rights ARE economic rights ARE racial rights ARE sexual orientation rights ARE age protection and on and on...it is all one large movement to make this world a little better for all by making it fair for everyone. White, black, gay, straight, queer, old, young, native, immigrant...it is the only battle that matters beyond our own lives and lifetimes.

I am with every player in every protest and will never back down from that support.

[DownriverDem]

16. Go Back

Reagan started the anti union movement. Workers who think they can do better alone are a joke.

[Esteban]

21. Yep It's on the Dollar bill

United we stand ..... divided we fall. It's really simple logic.

[Ways]

20. Part of the Human race union

Protecting one another from entities who would take advantage of some individuals.

[HAB911]

3. #TakeAKnee trending bigly!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Right there with you... take a knee!!

[global1]

6. Take A Knee Should Take On A New Meaning....

it should be a protest against Trump. If Trump isn't your president - Take A Knee!!!!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. Or how about Turn Your Back? Stephen Curry will miss great opportunity to send the message at WH

visit...would of caught fire!

[Not Ruth]

5. Sports union that can no longer stick to sports indicates that progressive politics are mainstream

[RKP5637]

7. K&R!!!!! n/t

[HAB911]

8. 15 new @NFL players have told me

they will be sitting, taking a knee, or raising a fist tomorrow. A start. You can do this fellas.

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

9. From the NFL

Link to tweet

[MichMan]

11. I would like to see the whole team refuse to come out after halftime nm

[raven mad]

12. I have never been an NFL fan (don't ask about BAMA!!!!! ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!)

But I'll start now!

[mainstreetonce]

13. I will support "take a knee"

if it is against Trump,not during flag salute.

How would a team organize that?

[Hortensis]

14. I would support the NFL trying some repetitive head trauma on him

just to see if it improved his functioning.

[NobodyHere]

15. Who's threatening the constitutional rights of players?

[DownriverDem]

18. Hurts us all

When you aren't allowed free speech that threatens us all.

[Orrex]

17. I'm sorry--I'm not trying to be deliberately obtuse...

But for the life of me I can't figure out what this tweet means.

What does "no longer can afford to stick to sports" mean?

[DownriverDem]

19. Simple

It means they will speak out on issues not related to football.

[Orrex]

22. Click! Now I get it!

Thanks!