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Just raising the question.. Do you think there will be a few "kneeling" during the national anthem?
My opinion is ..yes..there will be few. Perhaps more than a few..
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)edhopper
(33,587 posts)but I don't know what they'll do.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)not only the players..
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Trump has made into a gesture of patriotism and unity, something Kaepernick himself could not do.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Trumpanzees don't realize what scum their orange idol is
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)but I had not really noticed till now.. great term..Trumpanzees
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)RainCaster
(10,884 posts)The Orange Shit Worm has me thinking I should do this to show how wrong he is. But my team is playing across the country tomorrow.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)I figured taking a Knee was the suggestion
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)Maybe even hold up 4 and 5 fingers.
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)could, or could not, be an exceptional weekend. Do you realize what the percentage of players in the NFL are "minorities?"
Here's a quick "google" answer;
68% African-American!
And that's who Orange Cheat-o seems to be targeting!
The question is: "What's going on in the locker rooms between now and kick-off?"
I would not want to be in the position of those players. So many things to consider: their jobs, their family, their "patriotism," their community relations, their team loyalty, their own self-image, their future, etc, etc, etc!!!!!
What a shame that Orange Cheat-o, who "claimed" to want to "make America great again" is working so hard to f**k over so many people and putting their own lives into turmoil just to please his own demented ego.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Fans would boo and not just a little bit.
The demographic attending those games is white and I'm sure more conservative than the nation as a whole. Today I attended the Miami/Toledo college football game and saw nearby fans showing off the Trump tweet on their smart phones before the national anthem. They weren't mocking it....they were championing it. Then when Miami honored the military man of the game the cheering was even louder than normal, as if they thought they were making some type of counter statement.
The more who do it, the less risky it is. Kaepernick became the symbol. Nobody would have cared about him if he were the third guy to do it and someone else had already become the simplistic target for the right wing.
melman
(7,681 posts)I haven't given a single shit about football or football player my whole life. Not going to start now.
Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)You'd be able to hear all the exploding heads around the country.