Liberals are quite fond of saying they’ll move to foreign countries, if Republicans get elected to the presidency. Then, to the disappointment of all, they remain. Something like that may be starting with NFL players and the anthem protests.
The San Francisco 49ers won’t be forcing their players to stand during the national anthem, safety Eric Reid said Wednesday.
It’s hard to keep things a secret, in today’s NFL. It’s even harder if you work for Jerry Jones, an owner who likes to be seen in the mix of all things important. Therefore, one assumed it wouldn’t be too long before reports of what was said at the Cowboys’ closed-door anthem discussion came to light. And, as expected, it didn’t take long at all.
Sean Combs, the rapper formerly known as Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, and then just plain old Diddy. Has a plan which, if he pulled it off, could spare the NFL a tremendous headache.
The NFL television ratings and attendance are down this year due to some players kneeling during the national anthem. If this trend continues, and myriad fans continue to stay away from the NFL product, it’s going to cost the players money, because there will be less profits to divvy about between their union and owners.
Imagine having so many intense negative feelings toward your country, that being told to respect it, causes “uproar.” Those feelings aren’t merely imagined by the Buccaneers Gerald McCoy, they are reality.
There aren’t enough ironic illustrations, to adequately express what has happened to ESPN this week. The network that has become a bastion of left-wing media activism, was protested by two different groups of leftists, angry at ESPN for suspending an activist journalist that they should have fired a month ago.
Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to the report that the National Football League was considering requiring players to stand for the National Anthem, saying the White House “would certainly support” it. “I think we would certainly
Football players from opposing NESCAC teams at Trinity College and Hamilton College took the singing of the national anthem into their own hands Saturday when a reported failed public address system led to an announcement there would be “no anthem.”
In what is surely a sign of the times in which we currently live, the topic of how to players will conduct themselves during the playing of the national anthem, will be “front and center” part of the agenda when NFL owners meet next week.
There’s one thing you don’t have to worry about when asking Mike Ditka a question, and that’s not getting a straight answer. The Bears legend and Hall of Famer railed against anthem protesters in a recent interview, saying “there has been no oppression in this country in the last 100 years that I’m aware of.”
Former New York Jets great “Broadway” Joe Namath defended the National Anthem protests Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” and suggested viewers should “look up the meaning of oppression.” “[G]oing back to what Colin Kaepernick initially did, it was to point out some
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume argued that either both the National Anthem protests and Vice President Mike Pence’s walkout of an NFL game are stunts, or neither are.
In every election, coalitions eventually emerge. Forces united by nature or necessity, around a particular leader, to achieve a particular goal.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” CNN Political Commentator and Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill weighed in on Vice President Mike Pence’s walkout at an NFL game by stating that used the flag and National Anthem as
Show of hands for everyone who thought they were going to hear the words, “petrified a-hole” in the same sentence today? No? Well, goes to show you probably have too high an opinion of the public discourse. However, there’s a strong likelihood that watching this video will dispel you of any such notions.
Los Angeles (AFP) – National Football League Players Association chief DeMaurice Smith hit back on Monday after fresh criticism of athletes who kneel or sit during the playing of the US national anthem.
In a Monday appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Fox Sports 1 personality Jason Whitlock praised Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for his statement that anybody who kneels for the national anthem “won’t play.” “It is long past
Monday, ESPN “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith awarded President Trump the win for having “successfully hijacked” the national anthem protests in the NFL. Trump denounced the protests in September, causing players to protest the president and stand in unity around
Fox Sports 1’s Shannon Sharpe said Monday that Vice President Mike Pence walking out on the San Francisco 49ers-Indianapolis Colts game after players knelt for the national anthem was “staged” and a “mockery of the presidency.” “We can agree that it was staged,” Sharpe said
Actor Jesse Williams and singer John Legend are currently developing a documentary film about the black power salute at the 1968 Olympic Games, Deadline has revealed.
MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough hammered Vice President Mike Pence Monday for the “stunt” he pulled at Sunday’s San Francisco 49ers-Indianapolis Colts game where he left after players knelt for the national anthem. Scarborough said Pence is trying to “deflect” from Bob Corker and “everything else.” “This was a stunt,” Scarborough argued. “You
Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones had had it with anthem protests. Just how tired of it is he? Tired enough that Jones has now publicly said that if his team doesn’t respect the flag, they’re not going to play.
Liberals have a funny habit of only getting stingy about spending public funds in two very specific circumstances: military spending, and anything perceived to be politically beneficial to Republicans. The latter cause, seems to have turned California Representative Adam Schiff into a fiscal conservative.
Now free from the constraints of her former liberal overseers at ESPN, Britt McHenry is free to say what she wants. What she wanted to say on Sunday about Vice President Pence walking out of a Colts game, would definitely have not pleased her former employers.
As the saying goes, “It takes one to know one.” Such a saying might have particular application to 49ers safety Eric Reid, one of Colin Kaepernick’s original anthem-protesting buddies.
It’s quite appropriate that a man who refuses to actually speak on his own future, would choose to subtweet the retracted story about his promise to stand for the anthem. It’s even more appropriate that he would choose to subtweet it while channeling someone else.
President Trump issues a tweet giving further background on Vice President Pence’s decision to leave the Colts game on Sunday after several 49ers protested. It turns out, it was Trump who asked Pence to leave if he saw any players protesting.
NFL anthem protests have cost the league fans of every race, color, creed, and political affiliation. On Sunday, those protests also cost them the Vice President of the United States.
It took 5 weeks, but one NFL team has reportedly been told what all teams should have been told before the season even started: stand for the anthem, or stay in the locker room.
Professional football is no longer viewed as America’s favorite sport as the NFL wanes in popularity due to the NFL players’ national anthem protests, according to a new poll.
A lot of terrific match-ups in the NFL this Sunday, including Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers traveling to Texas to face the Dallas Cowboys, and Carolina flying to Motown to face the Detroit Lions.
Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines blasted the NFL players protesting during the National Anthem, demanding that they stop being ‘stooges and pawns’ for a Democratic Party and a news media ‘that incites a fake news narrative.’
The NFL just learned a tremendously useful lesson, that will serve them well if they choose to continue to apply it. What is that lesson? Simply this: if you don’t protest, more people will watch your games.
The NFL recently made clear, that they will ban any fan who uses a racial slur at one of their stadiums. That’s if, they ever actually find proof of any fans using racial slurs at one of their stadium’s.
The NFL had some big moments on Thursday night: Cam Newton issued an apology in response to the worst, most manufactured controversy in the history of the NFL, and another thing happened, there were no protests during the anthem.
Sure, it’s against the rules for NBA players to kneel during the playing of the national anthem. However, former Lakers great Kobe Bryant says that if he were still playing, he would kneel.
After recent allegations of fans screaming the n-word at players, the league has come up with a plan to deal with spectators who scream racial slurs: ban them.
We are now at the point where every time a backup quarterback not named Colin Kaepernick gets signed, he is going to be made to made to apologize, for not being a backup quarterback named Colin Kaepernick.
When you can’t get the answer you want in your poll, change the poll. That seems to be what happened when USA Today asked people what they thought of NFL players protesting during the anthem.
