Expect to See Fewer and Fewer NFL Players Taking “a knee”

On Sept. 22, before I left the office, I got NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement on President Donald Trump’s comments about “kneeling players should be fired”, and “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say “get that (SOB) off the field right now”?” These players have every right not to stand or be present for the national anthem.

Green said that as for the social protests, she believes a lot of Americans do not fully understand what it is being protested.

“The NFL is in a very bad box”. You can not have people disrespecting our national anthem, our flag, our country. Despite Trump’s false claim that NFL ratings are way down because of the rule changes, more than 24 million watch “Sunday Night Football” each week, and games are broadcast nearly every night of the week. “In my opinion, their business is going to go to hell”, Trump said outside the White House.

Curry – NBA’s top performer in 2015 – said he wanted to show that he and other players did not stand for “the things that he’s said and the things that he hasn’t said in the right times”.

“I was proud of the players”. “I feel like [they’re not protesting] the meaning of the flag; they’re just using the only platform they have to get the message out”.

However, I get it, we have the right to do what we want, when we want. Players are free to sling political and cultural venom in a variety of ways – through media interviews, Twitter posts or any method that meets the approval of the profession that has made them rich. “I thought I was gonna die”. Their approach is one of a positive nature, and that’s definitely the preference. And it gives me no more claim to the flag than anybody else. We will not be divided by those words, and I think that was awesome.

“Those words were missing from the statements I read despite the fact that 70 percent of National Football League players are Black and many of them, as well as their family and friends, have experienced racial profiling by police that leaves too many unarmed African Americans injured or dead”. I don’t blame the guys for feeling like they needed to do something as a reaction to that. “What I learned from Coach Eddie Robinson was that if there is no flag, you stand for the Anthem”. During the National Anthem? I kneel because the flag is a symbol for freedom.

With his comments, President Trump undermined the same values we stand for the anthem in the first place and he did so in incredibly poor taste. “That’s a smokescreen. How about we talk about the issues people are kneeling and fighting for?”

However today the sports “friendly zone” is in the center of it all and I do not know about you, but I am very curious to see how many OR officials and athletes decide to take a stand and especially curious to know which side they will pick. And to me, this should tell the National Football League something about its audience.

Mr Trump’s remarks can be seen as an attempt to appeal to core supporters, North America reporter Anthony Zurcher says.

When I began my collegiate journey at Corning Community College, I shared an apartment suite with three of my teammates on the basketball team, all of whom were black and all of whom remain amomg my closest friends to this day. “They are all pulling in the same direction, but we understand each locker room is different”. That’s a few days from now. So what we have here is not a matter of constitutional rights, but a battle over what is right.

Those who wish to reinforce oppression in our country hide behind good people – many who I’m sure mean no harm but simply don’t receive racial injustice as their problem. “First phase was internal, trying to have unity with the players, that is why you saw the owners lock arms with players”.