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| Frisco Texas: Players Kneeling for Anthem Met with Boos Before MLS Game |
| 2020-08-14 |
| [Breitbart] There was a smattering of boos when players from FC Dallas and Nashville SC collectively took a knee during the national anthem before their MLS game on Wednesday night in Frisco, Texas. Dallas defender Reggie Cannon said he was disgusted by the boos at Toyota Stadium when players and officials knelt to call attention to racial injustice. He said teammate Ryan Hollingshead turned to him afterward and said he was sorry. "You can’t even have support from your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me," Cannon said. "As a team we try to give the best possible product on the field and these last six months have been absolute hell for us. Absolute hell." Obviously, self-awareness isn't Cannon's strong suit. STFU and get a clue Dallas and Nashville had not played a game since the season was suspended on March 12 because of the coronavirus. While Major League Soccer’s other teams played in the MLS is Back tournament in Florida over the past month, Dallas and Nashville were forced to withdraw before the start because of positive COVID-19 tests among players from both teams. The teams met as MLS restarts the regular season in local markets. Some of the games will include fans if local jurisdictions allow it. Just over 5,000 were allowed to attend the match at Toyota Stadium, although the crowd that showed up appeared smaller. The death of George Floyd has spurred a number of MLS players to form the group Black Players for Change, which seeks to address systemic racism in soccer and society. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 About 1,700 families times the average length of a car (14.7 feet) divided by 5280 feet per mile is slightly less than five miles long for the line, but the Daily Mail would rather be excited than mathematically accurate. Incidentally, one wonders how many of those Dallas families are illegals, and therefore receiving neither unemployment payments nor the COVID supplements. According to the charts, as of end-June, 2020 the Dallas, Texas unemployment rate had fallen to 9% from its peak of 13% at end-April. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-14 18:04 |
| #3 Texas has other worries, food riots. THOUSANDS of cars form mile-long line at Dallas food bank as families drive across Texas for box of noodles, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, rice, and trail mix as unemployment cripples state |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-08-14 10:27 |
| #2 Everybody act like Asians, won't be no problem. Plus, without ticket sales, where do the MLS salaries come from? Haven't seen them on television being sponsored by, say, Progressive Insurance or Budweiser. So it would be hard for a television audience to be even less commercially valuable. Tix are it and.... |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2020-08-14 07:46 |
| #1 Floyd was smoking grass just before he complained of not being able to breath before the knee to the neck happened. That is on video. As that stuff is being legalized more and more users, the highest percentage being African Americans, are having health issues. Far worse than tobacco use. That is the primary racial inequality I see. Of course a knee on the neck doesn't help but unfortunately people can't see past that part of the incident. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-08-14 06:41 |