You know what, I'm probably in the minority on this one but, if a group of our players chooses to sit. I think the whole team should sit. Owner, GM, Coaches and Players. The whole lot of them, One Nation. Choosing not stand for the National Anthem doesn't make you un-American. It's a visual representation of how a person, a group or a segment of the country may feel.
Football is the ultimate team sport, if we have that group sitting I personally hope we as a team follow suit. Truthfully Carr should be the one to make the first statement by sitting with his teammates . Giving a simple statement. "If my teammates are making a statement by sitting then I'm going to stand behind them by sitting with them."
I have no issue our team being at the forefront of the movement. Yes it could and would probably be a distraction but, football comes second to social issues.
Everyone will wear pink to show support and bring awareness to breast cancer. This issue is so much bigger. Sadly there is probably no cure at the end of the rainbow. Even still I believe in standing or kneeling together as a team will help bring more attention to the cause. If NFL players want to make a statement do it together and do it loudly.
Wow. A town in the South voted and took down an historic statute of Robert E. Lee. Word went out--a call to arms--to rally at that town in response to this political move. And, . . . wait for it, . . . 200 hundred skin heads, Neo-Nazi's showed up.
200 hundred.
That's the number I heard reported for this long planned, organized response.
Perhaps the number is wrong, but that is what I heard.
If accurate, I'm guessing more anti-asshole protestors showed up to do battle. No one was there for a civil debate over the historical value of the Robert E. Lee statute. People were there to shout down another fringe group's opposing viewpoint, b/c it was not worthy of speech, these anti-protestors decided.
Then some murderer drove a car into a crowd.
Then it became a Trump issue.
I mean, really? A guy shot a Senator, and we were told there are "crazy" loons on
both sides. But now, this guy's not a crazy loon, it's Trump's fault?
You want this on Game Day?
I don't. I want to watch football. Get enough of the political hypocrisy elsewhere.
If you do, I guess you'd be okay with Pro-Life football players taking a knee against the government funding of Plan Parrenthood, which targets lower income communities and makes a mint selling apportions? Women's health my ass. They don't do mamagrams at these offices. But they have been found selling fetal tissue and body parts, while their competitors that do provide mama-grams get far less government support.