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| Houston Texans owner: 'We can't have the inmates running the prison" |
| 2017-10-28 |
| [Breitbart] Houston Texans Owner Bob McNair raised eyebrows at an NFL meeting earlier this month, with an expression he made regarding anthem-protesting players, saying that we "can’t have the inmates running the prison." McNair has since apologized for the remark. McNair reportedly made his initial comment during an October 17 NFL owners meeting held at league headquarters in New York, ESPN reported. The NFL owner made his comment after fellow Texan Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, said that the anthem protest was killing TV ratings and hurting the NFL’s bottom line. "See, Jones gets it ‐ 96 percent of Americans are for guys standing," McNair reportedly said. "We can’t have the inmates running the prison." However, Executive Vice President of football Operations, Troy Vincent, bristled at the analogy. According to TMZ, "Vincent reportedly told McNair that he had been called all sorts of terrible slurs during his NFL career ‐ inlcuding the N-word ‐ but never felt like an "inmate." Related: Townhall - Nosedive: NFL Ratings Have Dropped Almost 20 Percent Since 2013 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Yeah, end wight privilege! Hey hey, ho ho, those barrow wights have got to go! |
| Posted by: Frodo Baggins 2017-10-28 17:28 |
| #11 since the topic is SJW, understand there is a protest at Kitty Hawk; something about Wright priviledge.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2017-10-28 16:22 |
| #10 We have reached a point where offense is taken for allegory....by people thin-skinned about facing anything uncomfortable and using the race card so often it is meaningless. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-10-28 15:07 |
| #9 Why did McNair apologize for speaking the truth? Maybe because NFL should stand for National Felons League? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-10-28 14:29 |
| #8 What I like about Trump is that he would not have apologized. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-28 13:26 |
| #7 Swap out 'asylum' for 'prison' and nothing would have come of it. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-10-28 12:15 |
| #6 I never had any sympathy for Bob McNair until he said this. You have to wonder if the owners have thought about hiring a retired 3rd grade teacher and put them into personnel management. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-10-28 10:58 |
| #5 The players get paid a handsome amount of money for playing. They are employees of a corporation. If they choose to protest on the field about social justice, tell them to take a hike--their services are not needed. Treat them as any other trouble-making employee. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-10-28 09:15 |
| #4 It is not a prison and they are definitely not inmates. This is an insane asylum run by the media and the democrats to make everyone think they are slaves and keep everyone at each others throats. This is cultural marxism which the Soviet used on their enemies to cripple them. It was never meant to be used as an ACTUAL POLITICAL SYSTEM like the democrat system uses on US and themselves, idiots. This is psychological warfare you dummies. Please read the Marxist playbook to the end so you are at least more nuanced with your stupid before you go all stalin on US. I really have no respect for anyone in your party right now, and lesser so as every day passes. Please be ready to explain if you even reach Heaven. Excuses of hating your fellow Man will not fly there. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-10-28 01:59 |
| #3 "can’t have the inmates running the prison." Nothing like straight talk, except these inmates are paid way too much and will be soon getting a hair cut. |
| Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-10-28 00:51 |
| #2 This is a page from the Jackson/Sharpton playbook. Want us to give it up?Then give us money to pour into the inner cities of your faans. Social Justice for all at your expense. |
| Posted by: Lemuel Gurly-Brown6944 2017-10-28 00:42 |
| #1 McNair has since apologized for the remark. He's boned. As Our Ford said, "Never complain, never explain." On a positive note, at least he didn't say "It's time to call a spade a spade". |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-10-28 00:21 |