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Hot! ESPN Takes on the Politics of Trump and Huckabee to NFL: Tell Players to Protest on Their Own Time (Videos)

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9-24-17

 

Former Arkansas governor reacts to anthem protests on ‘Sunday Morning Futures’.

On Sunday, ESPN began its pregame show “Sunday NFL Countdown” with a discussion about President Trump’s comments about NFL players who protest during the national anthem.

Former head coach Rex Ryan, who has supported Trump in the past, was visibly angry when talking about the president’s comments. Ryan said “I never wanted that. That doesn’t mean I support 100% of the things that he says and clearly this is a case.” In a series of angry Tweets on Friday, Trump said that the NFL should fire any player who protests during the national anthem.


Huckabee to NFL: Tell players to protest on their own time

Source Fox News

ESPN Takes On the Politics of Trump

Source Wochit News

NFL Players and Owners Kneel & Lock Arms during National Anthem after Trump comments on NFL Kneelers

NFL Players and Owners Kneel & Lock Arms during National Anthem after President Trump comments on NFL Kneelers

Source Polictics Time

NFL’s Steelers didn’t participate in national anthem as some other players took a knee

NFL players, teams and owners across the league responded Sunday to President Trump’s criticism of players kneeling in protest during the national anthem, with some kneeling, others locking arms and one team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, choosing not to participate in the national anthem ceremony at all.

As the “Star-Spangled Banner” played at Soldier Field in Chicago for the noon game between the Chicago Bears and the Steelers, the Pittsburgh team’s sideline was virtually empty.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin told a CBS Sports reporter prior to the game that his team would stay in the locker room during the anthem.

“We’re not participating in the anthem today,” Tomlin said, adding that the action was “not to be disrespectful to the anthem” but to remove the team “from this circumstance.”

“People shouldn’t have to choose” whether to kneel or stand during the anthem, he said. “If a guy feels a need to do something he should not be separated from his teammate who chooses not to.”

“So we’re not participating today,” he said. “That’s our decision.”

The Steelers’ action was among many varied responses today and over the weekend to President Donald Trump’s calling for the firing of NFL players who kneel in protest during the anthem.

Earlier Sunday, a host of players in London took a knee and locked arms together as the United States national anthem was performed. 

Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady

The Green Bay Packers‘ quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, posted on Instagram that he supports fellow NFL players and coaches and included a photo of him kneeling with three other teammates, with the hashtags: “#unity #brotherhood #family #dedication #love”

Underneath the post, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady appeared to endorse Rogers’ stance with a raised-fist emoji. 

Arm-in-arm at a game across the Atlantic

A game played at Wembley Stadium in London was a matchup between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Baltimore Ravens. Among the players and coaches locking arms with players during the protest over the U.S. national anthem was Jaguars owner Shahid Khan.

Jaguars tight end Mercedes Lewis and linebackers Telvin Smith and Dante Fowler as well as defensive tackle Calais Campbell and defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback Jalen Ramsey all took knees as did Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley, wide receiver Mike Wallace and safety Lardarius Webb.

(L-R) Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Mike Wallace, former player Ray Lewis and inside linebacker C.J. Mosley lock arms and kneel down during the playing of the U.S. national anthem in London, Sept. 24, 2017.more +

The ones who didn’t kneel stood arm-in-arm throughout the playing of both country’s anthems. The team’s official Twitter account posted a one-word tweet “Unity” to capture the moment.

Khan himself released a statement calling Trump remarks as “divisive and contentious” and declared his support for his players after meeting with some of them before the game. He said he was “honored to be arm in arm with them, their teammates and our coaches during our anthem.”

The owner added that the team and the NFL “reflects our nation” said that it was personally important “to show the world that even if we may differ at times, we can and should be united in the effort to become better as people and a nation.”

The anthem protest in Britain had dozens of players on both sides of the field including Baltimore Ravens kneeling when “The Star-Spangled Banner” was performed but standing when Britain’s national anthem “God Save the Queen,” witnesses and The Associated Press reported. 

Trump’s view

The protests come in response to the president’s comments at a rally Friday night in Alabama when he said: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say: ‘Get that son of a b—- off the field right now, out.”

Jacksonville Jaguars players lock arms and kneel down during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens at Wembley Stadium in London, Sept. 24, 2017.more +

The president then appeared to channel his signature command from when he hosted the reality television show “The Apprentice.”

“He’s fired. He’s fired.”

On Sunday, before NFL games kicked off, the president’s tweets reinforced his anti-anthem protest message.

He also suggested that if fans refuse to go to games due to the protests, “you will see change fast.”

On Saturday night, the president went after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for criticizing Trump’s condemnation of kneeling players.

Goodell is “trying to justify the total disrespect certain players show to our country,” Trump tweeted.

NFL to air ‘unity’ commercial

The NFL commissioner did not mention the president by name in his statement Saturday.

“Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities,” Goodell said.

The NFL also announced that it would re-air its commercial from February, “Inside These Lines,” promoting societal unity and tolerance. “It reflects the unifying force of our great game, our players & clubs,” Goodell said on Twitter.

In the commercial spot, Academy Award-winning actor Forrest Whittaker narrates as various lines are chalked on the grass.

Just as Jacksonville Jaguars’ defensive end Eli Ankou, who is black, lifts opposing Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, who is white, off the turf, Whittaker softly states: “We may have our differences but recognize there’s more that unites us.” Source ABC News


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    • Man

      yeah, so it is unpatriotic to focus on the Black American lives lost by police brutality, but it is patriotic to get triggered by their actions and Be a Bitch about it.

      Way to go and defend Free speech.

      I though patriots knew what the Constitution was.

      Trump really has a knack in picking the dumbest fights

    • st

      the nfl sucks bunch of fat men getting payed to much to play with balls. the only people who are dumber is the people who watch them :idea: :arrow:

    • ElOregonian

      They can protest all they want, it is their right.

      And it is my right to protest against the NFL by not supporting it, either by attendance, merchandise purchasing, or television viewing. They’re on right now but without me.

      NFL, you are a bunch of idiots. You NEED my money to survive, but I do not need you to do the same.

      BYE-BYE…

    • Takealook

      If you have lived with blacks, worked with blacks, been a victim of black violence, gone to school with blacks
      one thing stands clear above all else. They have been given extreme preference in hiring, easier classes, and
      painted as poor oppressed victims. I did all of the above with blacks as well as having blacks as most of my
      friends and sports team mates. What was always clear was they were almost entirely with few exceptions
      the most violent, racist, lazy, and self-entitled people of any race. While all races struggle to make ends meet
      it was only one race the blacks that could not, would not, and cared not to be part of civilized society and hence
      commit the majority of crimes, fill the prisons, then whine about equal opportunity. Of all the races only one
      has no interest in being a decent brother to the other races and it is not whites. It is almost all a black problem.

    • DISPENSER

      Everyone has a right to free speech. You do not have a right to free speech at work. If your speech or actions negatively affect a business, the business has the right to discipline you or fire you. If a team supports disrespect of the flag or America, they have that right. I have the right to stop watching them or buying the products the sponsors sell.

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