sakinago
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I did play sports. Former collegiate athlete. D-2 baseball. My screen name here is derived from my days living in the baseball house in college. I don’t think I’d recommend it though, not worth the time. Looking back I’d rather do intramural softball instead. But also Football and soccer high school. Football at a public school until I was a junior and got recruited to play baseball at a private school that didn’t have a football team, and the baseball coach was also the soccer coach, and he strong armed me into playing soccer too.
To say that Brees is wrong, is to say that what the Flag symbolizes to him is wrong. He’s allowed to feel that way about the Flag. All Americans are allowed to feel that way. To him the flag symbolizes freedom, the bill of rights, and all the ideals that we should live up too as a country. It also symbolizes for him the people who’ve sacrificed for those ideals. Brees is entitled to feel that way about the flag. At least half of Americans do.
Remember Kapernick didn’t start out by kneeling. He sat like a petulant child, and didn’t even start to kneel until he caught backlash for being disrespectful. Kapernick was disrespectful, and to expect the rest of America to believe that he’s been respectful the whole time because he kneeled on the ground instead of his ass is ridiculous. I digress. That’s how this started. To at least half of Americans the flag, and the anthem before a game, is sacred. We stand because of the millions of young men and women who died for those higher ideals. That’s what the anthem and flag has signified for centuries now. To see kneeling as disrespectful to the flag and those who died, is just as fair as the BLM movement seeing “all lives matter” as disrespectful to them. To them you are disrespecting something sacred.
I’ll describe the kneeling issue as this. Trying to get someone’s attention by not ringing the door bell, but instead stomping on their flowers on purpose and banging on their window. To say people are wrong for feeling that way is ridiculous. To say that Brees is wrong for feeling that way is disgusting. NO ATHLETE ON THE PLANET HAS DONE MORE THAN BREES HAS AS FAR AS GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. No one. Not Lebron. Not Kapernick. Not Malcolm Jenkins. No one. Brees has helped build back up NO more than the rest of his team combined. To say Brees isn’t an “ally” (ridiculous religious term) is blasphemy. Brees is the reason the team is the New Orleans Saints instead of the San Antonio Saints.
