(09-27-2017, 08:53 AM)UCF Knight Wrote:

(09-27-2017, 08:44 AM)StitchJones Wrote: "Literally nobody cares."
Wrong... I care. I also applaud someone who has the strength of their convictions to take action. I had said elsewhere that if this team (the Jags) brought kap here I would no longer be a Jags fan. Sunday at London the team demonstrated that they already have a bunch of kap 'wannabees' on the roster.

Football is just a game... a game. The people who play it are professional athletes, not heroes by any stretch of the imagination. They are payed millions to play a kids game. They live a life of the rich elite because they live in a country which has provided them with the freedom to do what they want and to be successful. A freedom which has been (and continues to be) bought at a terrible price by the real heroes. The national anthem and the flag are representations of the heritage and freedom that was bought with blood.

For someone who claims to be an American to kneel and or not cover their heart during the national anthem is to spit in the face of the very men and women who have sacrificed everything so they can get paid millions to play a kids game. I myself am a military veteran (20+ years) and have been put in harms way more than once.

Yes, those individuals have a right to protest any 'imagined' grievance; they can legally kneel during the national anthem if they choose to, or they can burn the flag if they choose to. But just because one can do something isn't the same as saying one should do something. 

What ever the reason, taking a knee when one should be standing tall with his hand over his heart has been lost in the stupidity of this form of protest. It was ill conceived and is ill advised for any American to do such a foolish thing. 

I started this response by saying that I had promised that if the Jags ever brought kap here I would no longer be a Jags fans. They instead, as a team, followed in kaps footsteps. So be it. I am no longer a Jacksonville jaguars fan and will not waste my time nor support any NFL related franchise. 

Honoring one's country and the men and women who serve it and have died for it is more important than following a kids game played by overpaid, self entitled pre-Madonnas. I know I'm not alone in this conviction, in spite of what many on this forum say. Kneeling during the national anthem is wrong. Period. The NFL should never have tolerated allowing the game to become a political forum and thereby ruining it for fans like me.

One of the best parts of a Jags game (sadly because in recent times there weren't many high parts) was the anthem and the fly overs.  You knew everyone would stand, remove their hats and show respect.  If they didn't, they would be reminded and do so immediately.  This town has always been respectful and it didn't matter your age, race, or color.

Current events have seem to given people the right to be an [BLEEP] and say everything is in the name of social justice.  You know you are going to offend someone, but you don't care because you think you are doing it for a cause.  It doesn't matter that the cause you are standing up for is offending others as long as you think you are being recognized.

The players in the NFL really don't think there are other ways they could have been noticed than taking a knee during the national anthem before a football game?   What else are they doing to help make things better?  Are they really trying their best to make their communities better, or is taking a knee it?  My guess is most aren't doing much, and if they are, it's the bare minimum.....

How you react to things is your choice.  You choose to be offended.  I say, no one is going to run me out of the stadium.   I am not going to give other people power over whether I watch football games.  You are giving the players the power over your life and your enjoyment.  I go to the stadium to watch a football game.   To stop going because I don't like what happened during the national anthem seems like the tail wagging the dog.

But I still have hope for you disgruntled people because you haven't yet done what you say you are going to do. I say that because you are still here on the Jags message board, still talking about the very thing you said you were going to give up.

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