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| Commanders Coach Fined $100,000 After Downplaying Jan. 6 |
| 2022-06-14 |
| [Townhall] At this point it is known if you speak out against the radical left’s narrative, they will come for you. An NFL coach is under hot water for giving his opinion, a First Amendment right, not the January 6 debacle. The Washington Commanders fined its defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio $100,000 after downplaying the events that took place last year at the Capitol. Del Rio compared the Jan. 6 protests at the Capitol with the "riots, looting and burning" that destroyed thousands of businesses and cities during the summer of 2020. During a press conference earlier this week, Del Rio said "Why are we not looking into those things? If we're going to talk about it, why are we not looking into those things?...I see the images on TV. People's livelihoods are being destroyed. Businesses are being burned down — no problem. And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we're going to make that a major deal." Perhaps 'dust-up' infuriated the official narrative. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #6 The guy tells the truth and gets dinged a $100,000. Things are upside down in today's screwed-up politically-correct world. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-06-14 17:52 |
| #5 If it was a football-related press conference, I can see team management being annoyed that he brought up politics. If he was answering a direct question on the subject, though, or responding to something another of the speakers said, that’s different. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-14 13:42 |
| #4 Del Rio is a straight-up guy, but discovered he should consider the context of being at a company presser in a company uniform, with a paranoid head coach and owner. Snyder is under serious pressure by the NFL to lose control of the "Redskins", (I'm a native Washingtonian and will never think of shaming the team with that doofus name, I had season tickets for a brief time at RFK Stadium and watched the Skins beat Miami in the Rose Bowl in person), so Jack got smacked hard to keep his boss out of more trouble. Pity |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-06-14 13:39 |
| #3 I have not watched the No Firearms League in many years now. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-14 13:03 |
| #2 I suppose the NFL has a right to fine the man for saying things they don't want to hear. But I have a right not to watch any more NFL games. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-06-14 12:46 |
| #1 I missed all the burning and outright rioting like the prior summer. Oh, mostly peaceful demonstrations. Right. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-14 12:22 |