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Home Front: Culture Wars
TRUMP WINS AGAIN! NFL changes national anthem policy to show respect of the flag
2018-05-24
More on this story from yesterday.
[Twitchy] The money shot:
"A club will be fined by the League if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem."
The NFLPA shotgun to the foot response:
"The NFL chose to not consult the union in the development of this new "policy." NFL players have shown their patriotism through their social activism, their community service, in support of our military and lawe nforcement and yes, through their protests to raise awareness about the issues they care about.

The vote by NFL club CEOs today contradicts the statements made to our player leadership by Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Chairman of the NFL's Management Council John Mara about the principles, values and patriotism of our League.

Our union will review the new "policy" and challenge any aspect of it that is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement."
This is gonna' be fun!
Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#13  Jason Whitlock's idea; If the player disrespects the flag they still get paid but they won't play.
The players should pay the fine, and should all stand in respect for our flag, none of this hiding in the locker room crap.
Having the team pay the fine will only have them pass the cost onto us fans in ticket prices.
Wonder how many will be counting the players on the field, it still all sucks
Posted by: Jan   2018-05-24 18:31  

#12  I heard someone make the case that meterball is the worse, on account of the repetitions.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-05-24 16:33  

#11  Two years too late. The NFL has already committed slow-motion ritual seppuku. This is just the corpse twitching. Good luck getting your fans back, your ratings back up, or ever again fooling the taxpayers into buying you fancy new stadiums.
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-05-24 13:55  

#10  microcuncisions?

What about hockey? Besides the dental issues?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-05-24 13:30  

#9  I believe microcuncisions are real and they will doom the NFL as parents prevent kids from playing and eventually that works its way up the system until there aren't enough players to have a quality league.

NFL knows this and want to maximize cash before things start to get worse.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-05-24 12:43  

#8  Just those on the field, mind you. Those who wish to protest get another five minutes to work off the hangover, and then they can do the anal-fist charge onto the field afterwards.

Nope, found my freedom, not going back to the crazy ex.

Nothing to do with Trump, tipping point for me was/is the Jovan Belcher. Is, because they dug him up after a couple years and did a brain exam and found that some dude who had been drink'n and coke'n hard for 10-15 years, and especially hard the night of the murder-suicide, may have some brain injury from football which made him susceptible to NRA brainwashing.

Anyone else snicker at the Community Service bit?

I think this all but confirms that the upper management of the NFL are drunken clams, and if I had any business exposure to pro football I would start limiting that exposure last year at the latest, but now for sure.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-05-24 11:43  

#7  I actually love the proviso that protesting players stay in the locker room rather than doing the team glory run onto the field.

If you protest and there's no one there to see it, who do you hurt but yourself?
Posted by: regular joe   2018-05-24 11:26  

#6  According to this ESPN article, the owners are giving the players an out by letting the stay in the locker room while the anthem is playing. So the owners didn't do enough and they didn't do it soon enough. I don't know how they recover from this.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-05-24 11:13  

#5  Washington should look into the tax status of NFL teams.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-05-24 10:02  

#4  NOBODY has the right to disrupt their workplace and brand on the company clock. Be an asshole on your own time
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-24 09:19  

#3  It took them two years to come up with this? I could have told them that after the first 'protest'. To wit - you want to do something other than play the game when you're on the field? Fine - do it on your own time, not ours.
Posted by: Raj   2018-05-24 07:36  

#2  Your problem is not Trump, he's just a symptom of a deep and underlying pathology in America - one that values identity as an American, something that is an anathema to the crowd you keep in your lofty retreats, but one which provides the secure environment through their sacrifice of mind and body that you and yours exploit in your station.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-05-24 07:30  

#1  Too little too late. Cut 'em loose. I'm done with the National Felon League.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-05-24 00:15  

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