Actor Bryan Cranston praised former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick in a recent interview for inspiring other athletes to protest during the national anthem, calling it “a beautiful way of protesting.”
Offering unqualified support to someone is a tricky process. Mainly because, if you don’t wait until you have all the facts, it could turn out that your support was given in error. That’s the reality that Seahawks coach Pete Carroll finds himself in right now.
The NFL chose to embrace the anthem protests, of players who sought to use the league’s national stage to disgrace the flag and the country. The NFL also chose to take the players side against the leader of the free world, when he rightfully called those players out. As a result, it appears the league may have done irreparable harm to its brand.
What a difference a week makes. ESPN reversed their earlier decision to not show the anthem, after the shootings in Vegas late Sunday night. However, only two players are believed to have protested.
In an interview on Fox News, one survivor of the shooting in Las Vegas referenced the millionaire layers and their protests by saying he saw people running into the danger instead of kneeling in anger.
While NFL players who protest the anthem, cast themselves as upright crusaders for the rule of law and equality. The arrest statistics for the NFL paint a far different picture, of how a lot of these social justice warriors truly regard the rule of law.
The worst part of any conflict, whether it’s war, a divorce, or simply a debate, is that good people get hurt and put in awful positions. Due to the utter insanity that the NFL has become, Alejandro Villanueva now finds himself in that position.
The San Francisco 49ers elected to continue the national anthem protests, this weekend, this time protesting as a team and issuing a statement proclaiming “unity” in defiance of those who might disapprove.
During Sunday’s “AM Joy” on MSNBC, Michelle Bernard, the president and CEO of the Bernard Center for Women, said that black people were not considered “unpatriotic” until Colin Kaepernick decided to exercise his First Amendment right to protest the national anthem.
Television networks have gone to great lengths to conceal the ratings-killing anthem protests that are costing the league huge money in terms of viewership and attendance. However, it looks like NFL teams have also started trying to conceal the anthem protests. In one case, by literally covering a player up.
Figuring out where Cam Newton stands on matters of race, just kind of depends on when you talk to him. Last year, according to Cam, we were beyond race, as a nation. This week, Colin Kaepernick was a legend, and today, well, you figure it out.
Marshawn Lynch, an NFL player who has never stood accused of being immune to the powers of irony, showed up to the stadium on Sunday wearing a shirt that read: “Everybody vs Trump.”
After unleashing a protest bonanza last week, which featured nearly 200 players, coaches, and executives, demonstrating against the national anthem. This week, it appears that the NFL has decided to take a knee, on taking a knee.
NFL teams have agonized over how to balance protesting, with respect for the flag, during the national anthem. On Sunday, Ravens fans let their team know there’s only one acceptable choice: Stand.
The NBA sent a memo to all teams Friday warning players and coaches that if they do not stand for the national anthem, they will face consequences.
Goodbye interlocked arms, farewell raised fists, and see you later bended knee. The Dallas Cowboys will have no further use for those things because, starting Sunday, the Cowboys will simply stand during the anthem for the rest of the season.
Colin Kaepernick has had a lot to say about the police: he’s called them murderers without proof, he wore “pig socks,” which depicted cops as pigs, and he’s compared cops to slave catchers. Now, it appears, he’s put his money where his mouth is.
The basic math of this story is easy to follow: ESPN conducts a poll on anthem protests, ESPN doesn’t like results of the poll on anthem protests, therefore ESPN deliberately misrepresents the results from the poll on anthem protests.
The Catholic diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island in New York has informed its high schools that protests against the national anthem are forbidden at sporting events and other school occasions.
In news that will shock only those who have spent the last week living in caves, the NFL’s favorability has taken a massive nosedive.
Former Cincinnati Bengals star wide receiver Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson said in an interview with TMZ Sports that he believes the national anthem protests in the NFL are now “politically whitewashed” and have lost their initial meaning, much like the “Ice Bucket
A school district in Louisiana has moved to head off students who think they are going to emulate the anti-American protests seen in the National Football League by warning students to stand for the anthem or face punishment.
The NFL has learned in one week, what it took Hillary Clinton almost two years to learn, and that is, more people agree with Donald Trump.
Friday, ESPN “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith said he was “tired” of the national anthem protests and linking of arms in unity, adding he is ready to “get back to football.” Smith reasoned that Colin Kaepernick’s initial protest has
In this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, Jackie takes aim at the NFL players who have taken a knee during the pre-game singing of the National Anthem, and the celebrities who fall all over themselves to prove that they support the players.
NFL great Herschel Walker thinks the NFL needs to “take control” of the national anthem protests. Walker said that if players want to protest, they should do it in the offseason and he would gladly join in with them, but
After the Pittsburgh Steelers’ national anthem debacle with only one player standing on the field for the national anthem and the rest of the team in the locker room, Steelers veteran center Maurkice Pouncey vowed the team would all be
What a difference a year makes! Last year, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton famously said, that racism doesn’t exist in his America, and that we should all be, “beyond that.” Fast-forward a year, and Cam Newton is singing the praises of the biggest racial activist to hit the sports world, since Muhamad Ali.
The Packers players wrote a long letter to their fans this week. A letter in which the team asked their fans to join them in interlocking arms during the anthem on Thursday night. According to quarterback Aaron Rodgers, this was a moment that stood for, “…equality.” As well as “…unity and love, and growing together as a society and starting a conversation around something that may be a little bit uncomfortable for people.”
A Missouri bar owner is receiving praise and criticism for turning the jerseys of two well-known NFL national anthem protesters into doormats at his establishment. While some love the display, others say it may be seen as encouraging violence.
Despite believing that he lives in a country that racially oppresses and brutalizes black people, Colin Kaepernick has neglected to pursue an opportunity to leave this hellscape and play football in Canada. A team from the Canadian Football League (CFL) reports that they have offered the national anthem protester a possible job in Montreal, but the player’s agent won’t respond to inquiries.
The widespread NFL protests against the national anthem are causing fans to reassess their interests in football, but the protests also seem to be causing investors to reconsider their actions
If there was any one person in the NFL possessing the unique combo of swag and credibility to stand-up to the league, and their legion of activist players, its John Elway. So it should come as no shock, that his team would be the first to issue a statement saying they’re going to stand for the anthem, as a team, from now on.
Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump has claimed that NFL teams were “afraid” of their players, the latest foray into a racially charged debate over game-time protests.
A six-year-old out of Pasco County, FL followed what he saw in the NFL over the weekend by kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance, and his mother is now upset that he was forced to stand. While a few players in the
The women of the raucous Legends Football League make touchdowns, deliver tough hits, throw an occasional punch, and do so in barely there uniforms but one thing they do not do is take a knee for the national anthem.
Sports teams ask a lot of their fans, especially in places like Green Bay. Where, depending on the time of year, a fan could get hypothermia while just sitting in his seat. However, one recent request the team has made of the Pack faithful has left fans feeling a little hot.
Tuesday on HBO’s “Real Sports,” host Bryant Gumbel thanked President Donald Trump for “energizing the social conscience of the modern American athlete” with his “racist, churlish and childish comments” over the weekend regarding NFL players protesting the national anthem. “Those of us
Legendary TV producer and World War II veteran Norman Lear took a knee Wednesday in ‘solidarity’ with the NFL players protesting during the national anthem.
Perhaps it’s poetic justice, that the same political movement which coined the phrase, “an inconvenient truth,” seems to constantly be inconvenienced by truth. Such is the case with what’s happening right now Sports Illustrated.
