(09-27-2017, 08:39 PM)EricC85 Wrote:

(09-27-2017, 08:21 PM)JackCity Wrote: It's not in the rulebook. They have guidelines. Like many of the guidelines it's up to the league or from team to team whether to use them or not.  

Just as a Q, how do you think the players should have responded to Trump?

I don't think they should respond at all, who cares what Trump says about sports? He has absolutely no barring on the league at all. He's giving his opinion right or wrong. Why does disrespecting the national anthem (stretching during the anthem, not attending the anthem, refusing to stand for it all examples of disrespecting the national anthem) have anything to do with Trumps comments?

Obama did a crap tone of stuff that MANY people strongly disagreed with did you see people opting out of the national anthem anywhere? Trump does a crap tone of stuff I disagree with, why is protesting the national anthem an acceptable form of protest?

This isn't about what the president said or didn't say or implied or didn't imply. It's about showing some kind of respect for the country in which they choose to reside. 

When do they stop protesting when all perceived injustices stop? 

My level of disgust is growing every day.

Well when the guy who holds the highest office in America says that you're peers should be fired for protesting and calls them sons of [BLEEP] that tends to cross the line in many of the players eyes.   

Flipped it on its head from what appeared to be a protest about inequality of some form to a "clap back" on Trump.  As dumb as that sounds. The show on Sunday was based almost fully on Trump's comments, instead of the original protest. 

The whole thing is so convulated now that's it's turned into an ice bucket challenge type of thing where everybody's just doing it for the sake doing it.   

Funnily enough Kap originally got the idea to kneel during the anthem based on advice from military members he consulted. It was aimed at being a good way to protest but also pay respects at the same time.

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The whole thing is a mess now anyway and without an actual practical plan being put in place by the players and the billionaires who got a good photo opp in over the weekend then it means very little.

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