NFL Player Changes His Mind About Quitting if Not Allowed to Protest

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By Donn Marten -

Tennessee Titans wide receiver Rishard Matthews made headlines when earlier in the week he said that he would sooner quit the NFL rather than be forced to stand for the national anthem. Matthews’ declaration came as a shock considering that his own brother was a member of the military who was killed in Afghanistan and that spitting on the flag would somehow honor his memory were he to make his political statement during NFL games. Significant response here from @_RMatthews, since deleted. #Titans. (Now tagging correct address.) pic.twitter.com/5bvlwpKRWx — Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) October 12, 2017 Now Matthews is claiming that it was all just a big misunderstanding and that his kneeling and Black Panther fist-thrusting isn’t more important than his obscene paycheck for playing a game. Perhaps he had second thoughts about his brother but it’s hard to see how the prospect of having to actually go out and work for a living wasn’t his primary motivation in issuing an apology. Titans’ Rishard Matthews backtracks from tweet he’d quit NFL rather than stand for anthem https://t.co/zTx6lkBUh5 pic.twitter.com/Pcy2sb8GJn — Tennessee Titans (@TenneTitansRR) October 13, 2017 Via the Nashville Tennessean “Titans’ Rishard Matthews backtracks from tweet he’d quit NFL rather than stand …

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