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NFL may change anthem policy next season... (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=311734)

NFL may change anthem policy next season...

if players continue to protest. IMO, it's great news. regardless of how symbolic the anthem is, when you have a bunch of millionaires protesting in front of a crowd that averages about 40K a year in income, it is truly a slap in the face to the ones in paid attendance. :thumb:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...r-rooms-during

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Some NFL owners might consider keeping teams in the locker room during the national anthem next season if player protests continue, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

“I think that if players are still kneeling at the end of the year, then it could very well happen,” a source told the newspaper.

Multiple people told the newspaper that it was too early to tell if league owners would follow through on a new policy, adding that there have not been detailed discussions.

NFL players have protested social justice issues, such as police brutality, since the 2016 season, either kneeling or raising a fist during the national anthem. The issue was brought into the spotlight again in September, when President Trump suggested those taking a knee should be fired.

On Monday, he called for Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch to be suspended for the remainder of the season after Lynch sat for the United States national anthem, but stood for the Mexican anthem during a game in Mexico City.

Players have been spotted protesting each week since Trump's remarks.

The protests have stirred controversy among fans and businesses as well. Papa John's earlier this month suggested the protests were to blame for their sagging sales numbers.

Prior to 2009, teams remained in their locker room for the national anthem. The league policy currently requires players to be on the sideline for the anthem.

Without getting political the free market has always allowed the opportunity to make more money and provided less protection for the worker.

The state/feds tend to pay less and offer more protection in civil rights/social matters.

I always remember every game I watch how much better people they are than I, so I'm thankful of that

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Originally Posted by ptlyon (Post 13232274)

I always remember every game I watch how much better people they are than I, so I'm thankful of that

Good point.

I should start doing that...

It's like parenting small children. Would be effective. Good move, if needed.

Or you know they could change it back to the players not even being required on the field while the anthem is playing. They only had the players out on the field since 2009. Before that it was completely optional.

Ya bet let Marshawn out to stand for the Mexican anthem because you know they have such better morals than America.

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 13232287)

The NFL is getting the blowback it deserves...karma sleeps until it's ready to punish you. It'll find your Achilles heel.

They have NEVER been "patriotic"....it took the DOD paying them millions to get the players out there, standing, for the anthem. It's a sham...a photo op.

Like any good marketing strategy...you want people to associate unrelated things together...Like Papa Johns and Peyton Manning. The DOD/MIC used the NFL connection to recruit young and malleable minds to go fight their manufactured "profit wars".

It worked so well...that the two are almost inseparable in less than a decade's time. You have military people boycotting the sport over something that has nothing to do with it. That's rich...

This shit never happened when the NFL was actually, almost, relevant. They can burn in their greed...they mixed military propaganda with their product and can suffer the consequences.

The NFL is dead...and justifiably so.

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Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 13232323)

The NFL is getting the blowback it deserves...karma sleeps until it's ready to punish you. It'll find your Achilles heel.

Truff...

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 13232287)

They've been doing it for years. Not sure about the optional part

Good militarism in football is stupid

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Originally Posted by Best22 (Post 13232335)

They've been doing it for years. Not sure about the optional part

NFL players today aren't half the man that Walter Payton was.

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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 13232329)

Truff...

People are confusing the NFL's motive for having pregame military displays. Fans were juked into believing it was an organic expression of appreciation.

It wasn't...it was strictly for profit.

The NFL is, was, and will always be run by a bunch of corrupt, soul-less scumbags.

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Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 13232342)

People are confusing the NFL's motive for having pregame military displays. Fans were juked into believing it was an organic expression of appreciation.

You always bait us with truth and then fill us with bullshit...

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Originally Posted by Rausch (Post 13232349)

You always bait us with truth and then fill us with bullshit...

There is nothing untruthful about what I wrote...do you think the NFL payed for those 300 ft. flags?