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Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:29 PM Sep 2017

Question???.."Will tomorrow be a day of. "kneeling" in the NFL?

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..

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Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
4. I don't know ...but you are correct..a lot of people are talking about it..
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:35 PM
Sep 2017

not only the players..

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
3. I think quite a few will kneel
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:34 PM
Sep 2017

Trump has made into a gesture of patriotism and unity, something Kaepernick himself could not do.

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
6. Thankyou joeybee12, hadn't seen, "Trumpanzees" before. I know it has been used,
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:40 PM
Sep 2017

but I had not really noticed till now.. great term..Trumpanzees

RainCaster

(10,884 posts)
8. I would if I could afford to go to one at the last minute.
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:45 PM
Sep 2017

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.

amuse bouche

(3,657 posts)
10. I just saw P.Diddy tweet to NFL players that they have a chance to do something great tomorrow.
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:48 PM
Sep 2017

I figured taking a Knee was the suggestion

MyOwnPeace

(16,928 posts)
12. I'm thinking that this.......
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:53 PM
Sep 2017

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)
13. I hope so, but quite risky
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 10:45 PM
Sep 2017

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)
14. Don't care
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 10:47 PM
Sep 2017

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)
15. I'm waiting for someone like Aaron Rodgers to take a knee.
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 10:49 PM
Sep 2017

You'd be able to hear all the exploding heads around the country.

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