NFL shoves protests during anthem behind closed doors

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Here’s our civics quiz question for the day: Is a protest demonstration a protest demonstration if it takes place behind closed doors?

If you said yes, you’re probably an NFL owner or a patron of the status quo. If you said no, you’re probably an African American NFL player who resents the hell out of being told to stifle yourself.

The question arose after Tuesday’s allegedly unanimous vote by the NFL owners — San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York said he abstained — to fine a team if any of its personnel sit or kneel during the national anthem. Since it’s the teams and not players who will pay, that helps assure that Colin Kaepernick and others of similar mindset will not be hired.

After months of debate on a controversy that shook the league last year, the owners compromised regarding mandatory sideline attendance: Players may choose to sit out the anthem in the locker room before returning to the field.

In other words, you kids can go nuts in the back yard, but when the grandparents arrive, come in, shut your pie holes and be nice.
“We want people to be respectful of the national anthem,” commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “We want people to stand — that’s all personnel — and make sure they treat this moment in a respectful fashion. That’s something we think we owe. (But) we were also very sensitive to give players choices.”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I tell ya, if I was so rich that I owned an NFL Team, I would not ABSTAIN or vote for this

garbage I would not just vote no but do so very loudly.

What are they gonna do? Can the league vote to kick out an owner?

I say it is time the NFL go away, for good.

[unblock]

3. the nfl can kick out an owner

they threatened to do that to jerry jones.

[Hoyt]

2. Don't like the rule. But if players aren't on the field during Anthem, that tells me they are

making a statement. I like the kneeling or fist in the air of old, but not being on the field still makes a statement. And god knows we need it.