Players looking for new ways to disrespect the ceremonies

[Skooby]

We have millionaires complaining to billionaires, so do they want everyone to tune out the games ?? One ups-man ship for who can be the biggest douche team next week is hitting a new high. Maybe we can have Best disrespect of the flag awards or best way to ruin a paying customers day besides losing award. These spoiled-brats don’t get that we as fans don’t pay to watch their protests, we watch to escape our problems. They want to dump their problems on us, money not being their problem.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...mcnair-comment

[Novacane]

He met with players and apologized. What happened to the days when we just accepted people's apology and moved on with life.

[sudzy]

He met with players and apologized. What happened to the days when we just accepted people's apology and moved on with life.

The world became hyper-sensitive. People have to apologize for everything now-a-days. Apologies are getting watered down.

[Night Train]

Let them do it...but no one better complain about the fallout that follows, whatever that may be.

No one gets to tell hard working fans how it should play out. The game exists because we watch and buy tickets. Don't keep prodding the bear or you may lose more than you think.

[GregclubSTH]

I personally don’t care about the issue either way, the anthem takes a few minutes and then it’s over. What I am getting sick of though is not being able to get away from this topic!! I gotta hear about it from coworkers , family and friends and then come on here and read about it some more?!?! When is it going to die already?

[ICRockets]

When is it going to die already?

Ideally, the issue would die when unarmed black men stop doing so at the hands of the men tasked with protecting and serving them.

[swiper]

Ideally, the issue would die when unarmed black men stop dying so at the hands of the men tasked with protecting and serving them.

They have used their profession to make their point heard. Now its time to stop that and reach out to their respective communities to work on the issues behind the scenes if they are truly committed to fix the problem. But many people would question how committed they truly are. At this point it's just a big publicity stunt that isn't helping anybody.

[ICRockets]

They have used their profession to make their point heard. Now its time to stop that and reach out to their respective communities to work on the issues behind the scenes if they are truly committed to fix the problem. But many people would question how committed they truly are. At this point it's just a big publicity stunt that isn't helping anybody.

The ones who are actually protesting the same thing Kaep did (as opposed to those who are co-opting his methods to protest ignorant white billionaires) have reached out in myriad ways. Malcolm Jenkins, for example, has gone so far as to meet with Congressional leaders about criminal justice reform.

[DynaPaul]

By all means, keep protesting, amp it up even. Just don't cry later when revenues go down and your salaries as a result.

[swiper]

The ones who are actually protesting the same thing Kaep did (as opposed to those who are co-opting his methods to protest ignorant white billionaires) have reached out in myriad ways. Malcolm Jenkins, for example, has gone so far as to meet with Congressional leaders about criminal justice reform.

They've gott put their money where their mouths (actions) are. For folks like that I have no particular issue. Moreover, the Trump lovers are using it to fuel their public racism, so they are to blame just as much.

[swiper]

By all means, keep protesting, amp it up even. Just don't cry later when revenues go down and your salaries as a result.

Yeah. If you actually believe what you just wrote then you are immensely more stupid than you typically come across as.

[Goobylal]

Ideally, the issue would die when unarmed black men stop doing so at the hands of the men tasked with protecting and serving them.

Then tell these so-called "unarmed" black men to stop a) committing crimes, and more importantly b) acting like idiots when confronted by the police. To hear some people, it's like random black people are being shot by white policemen.

[ICRockets]

Then tell these so-called "unarmed" black men to stop a) committing crimes, and more importantly b) acting like idiots when confronted by the police. To hear some people, it's like random black people are being shot by white policemen.

What crime did Tamir Rice commit? Eric Garner was not selling loosies when he was killed. Philando Castile was killed during a routine traffic stop. Anthony Lamar Smith had a gun planted in his vehicle- a gun that only had the offending officer's fingerprints on it- by a guy who was caught on tape saying "I'm going to kill this mother****er".

[Thurmal]

Ideally, the issue would die when unarmed black men stop doing so at the hands of the men tasked with protecting and serving them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...hootings-2017/

Occasionally cops have to shoot people. Twice as many white people have been killed than black people, who only make up 23% of fatal police shootings. And an unbelievably small portion of those are against unarmed citizens. But don't let facts get in the way of your bull**** narrative.

[ICRockets]

Twice as many white people have been killed than black people.

Oh, well, since there's also twice as many white people in the country as black people I guess that's a totally fair ratio.


.....wait.

[DraftBoy]

By all means, keep protesting, amp it up even. Just don't cry later when revenues go down and your salaries as a result.

Revenues are up, especially the advertising revenues.

[Thurmal]

Oh, well, since there's also twice as many white people in the country as black people I guess that's a totally fair ratio.


.....wait.

It's a totally fair ratio when you look at violent crime statistics in regards to the race of the offender. Black people commit more than 23% of the violent crime in this country.

[ICRockets]

It's a totally fair ratio when you look at violent crime statistics in regards to the race of the offender. Black people commit more than 23% of the violent crime in this country.

No, black people are arrested/convicted for 23% of the violent crime. There's a difference.

[Thurmal]

No, black people are arrested/convicted for 23% of the violent crime. There's a difference.

It's actually far higher than that, and it's all not b/c of a racist judicial system, despite what idealists like yourself like to think. Here's an actual FBI stat on killings between police officers and black people:

"Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.

Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population."

http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/all-tha...ack-homicides/

[swiper]

Then tell these so-called "unarmed" black men to stop a) committing crimes, and more importantly b) acting like idiots when confronted by the police. To hear some people, it's like random black people are being shot by white policemen.

Eric Garner. Heard of him?

If not, I'll get you over a 100 links so you can learn. I'm pretty sure situations like that are what's being protested. Happens over and over and over again by entitled-feeling police officers (who are 98% Caucasian).