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Here's an interesting analysis of the war of words between professional athletes and Trump:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-attack-on-black-athletes-may-bring-a-league-to-its-feet
The penultimate paragraph is especially intriguing:
It would be amazing if a majority of players and coaches in the NFL took a knee during the performance of the national anthem.
Trump is a repulsive idiot.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)That's a profoundly stupid statement.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)In the excerpt I quoted, the second sentence makes two points:
- There exists a Constitutional right of free expression without interference from the government, (Trump, of course, is the government)
- Trump is stoking the racial divides already cleaving the United States
The NFL, like many professional organizations, has many tightly-knit communities making up its whole. Similarly, many professions have organizations or trade groups or the like wherein the members of the broader group make up a commonality. There are many occasions when a group must stand in solidarity particularly when threats are leveled against them.
In any event, it will be interesting to read about how many players and perhaps coaches protest what Trump has said. I don't watch football anymore so I'll have to read about it on Monday morning!
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)point taken.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)tweets? Yes, it does.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts). . .should go to the White House for the foreseeable future, unless they're outside the grounds
carrying a picket sign.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)NO self-respecting person should go to the White House until Trump is gone!
PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)Seriously.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)As I stated in another thread, I find the culture of violence, sexism, malignant hyper-masculinity and privilege that practically defines football absolutely repugnant in every way imaginable. However, as utterly repulsive as I find football and everything associated with it, Trump is by far and away the more repellent and disgusting of the two. I too hope all the players and coaches take a knee in solidarity against this egregious man.
I would sooner gouge out one of my eyes than ever watch a football game, so I won't be tuning in, but they have my full moral support.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Like you, jcmaine72, I won't be watching any football. The late news is where we'll find out what happened in the NFL.
Stay tuned. This is going to intensify.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)is why in hell is the playing of the National Anthem mandatory at the beginning of games?
PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)we are currently at war.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)I know professional baseball games start with the anthem, and I suppose all the other pro sports do also.
It's the enforced patriotism that has always bugged me.
druidity33
(6,446 posts)because it's called the National Football League (expanded from the American Football League). Also keep in mind when the National Hockey League plays in Canada they also do the Canadian National Anthem. Course that doesn't explain the other Major Leagues and their penchant for anthems.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Probably football and all other sports the same length of time. The name of the league would have nothing to do with it.
Do they do the same thing in other countries? Not during the various championships where teams from different countries play each other, but at matches within the same country.
Give it time, and each city will have its own anthem and they'll be played also.
onecent
(6,096 posts)LonePirate
(13,424 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)They will set the tone for the afternoon games.
randr
(12,412 posts)the fans take a knee.