NFL Owners Considering Rule Change Requiring Players to Stand for National Anthem

[Old Rocks]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

I hope they do too, so they all get fired.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

The owners should just get it over with. Fire every last one of these overpaid sportsball apes. It's not like they're not easily replaceable. There's plenty of dumb jocks that have the same skill level the current batch has.

 

[toobfreak]

NFL Owners Considering Rule Change Requiring Players to Stand for National Anthem

WAIL as they might,
WHINE as they might,
The ball just keeps inexorably rolling over the heads of liberals everywhere.

Another epic fail for the Left again as Donald Trump marches on ------ STILL your American President.

I love it.

 

[Fang]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

A business owner writing you a check for millions, giving you the best equipment, trainers and food qualifies as an "authoritarian" these days simply because he's asking you to follow a few company rules like "don't piss off half the customer base by kneeling for the anthem"? You Liberals need go find some better causes. This one is pretty week. lol

 

[Weatherman2020]

NFL is starting to realize it is dead.
ESPN has started to realize it is dead also.

Death by SJW suicide.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Even the leftist media is calling it a Trump win.

Trump scores a win in the culture war as NFL seeks to ensure players stand for national anthem

 

[Pogo]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

A business owner writing you a check for millions, giving you the best equipment, trainers and food qualifies as an "authoritarian" these days simply because he's asking you to follow a few company rules like "don't piss off half the customer base by kneeling for the anthem"? You Liberals need go find some better causes. This one is pretty week. lol

Ummm how 'bout this ..................... don't allow the fucking Pentagon to inject, using your tax dollars, all this political bullshit into an event that has nothing to do with politics in the first place, duh?

What a load of fucking hypocrites.

 

[Pogo]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

I'd salute that. Bigliy.

 

[Pogo]

NFL Owners Considering Rule Change Requiring Players to Stand for National Anthem

WAIL as they might,
WHINE as they might,
The ball just keeps inexorably rolling over the heads of liberals everywhere.

Another epic fail for the Left again as Donald Trump marches on ------ STILL your American President.

I love it.

Why don't you join blondie here in celebration...........

​

"Those who ignore history.................."

 

[Faun]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

There’s nothing from preventing NFL owners from instituting it themselves since they’re the employer of the players. So why don’t they just do that now instead of waiting for a rule change?

 

[Faun]

The owners have TWO concerns that put fear in them:

1. Falling ticket sales.

2. Loss of their anti-trust exemption.

There is no moral or patriotic element in any of this.

Falling ticket sales??

Attendance has never been higher than this year (so far)...

2017 NFL Football Attendance - National Football League - ESPN

 

[Ace Nova]

It's hilarious when people start touting "free speech" when these people are employed by the NFL. My boss has a right to tell me what to say or what not to say or do (within the confines of the law of course) and if I don't like it, I can quit or he can fire me.

But I do NOT have a right to do what I want on HIS dime.

This.

Have these people ever worked for a company/corporation? No such thing as free speech in the workplace.

 

[Fang]

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NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

A business owner writing you a check for millions, giving you the best equipment, trainers and food qualifies as an "authoritarian" these days simply because he's asking you to follow a few company rules like "don't piss off half the customer base by kneeling for the anthem"? You Liberals need go find some better causes. This one is pretty week. lol

Ummm how 'bout this ..................... don't allow the fucking Pentagon to inject, using your tax dollars, all this political bullshit into an event that has nothing to do with politics in the first place, duh?

What a load of fucking hypocrites.

How are they doing that?

 

[Pogo]

Mods, this is a legitimate news story. Please leave it here where it will be seen by most members.

NFL owners are considering changing league rules to make it mandatory that players stand for the national anthem, a league spokesman said Tuesday.

The owners will discuss the possibility of changing the rule in a meeting next week. The league’s current policy asks that players players “stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, but only allows for potential discipline from teams toward players failing to be on the field at that time.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

A business owner writing you a check for millions, giving you the best equipment, trainers and food qualifies as an "authoritarian" these days simply because he's asking you to follow a few company rules like "don't piss off half the customer base by kneeling for the anthem"? You Liberals need go find some better causes. This one is pretty week. lol

Ummm how 'bout this ..................... don't allow the fucking Pentagon to inject, using your tax dollars, all this political bullshit into an event that has nothing to do with politics in the first place, duh?

What a load of fucking hypocrites.

How are they doing that?

Seriously? REALLY??

>> There's a complicated history involving the connection between patriotism and professional sporting events. Almost every team or organization in the country regularly holds ceremonies that commemorate those in the armed services. But last year (article is from 2016, so "last year" = 2015), Arizona senators John McCain and Jeff Flake found that the Department of Defense paid $6.8 million to 72 teams in the NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS to hold patriotic displays during games. These payments took place over a four-year period beginning in 2012.

Few actions appear to be more unpatriotic than multibillion-dollar sports franchises using military appreciation events as a way to stuff their coffers. Yet, the discovery of those duplicitous actions curiously didn't draw nearly the amount of outrage as Kaepernick's protest. With that in mind, it's worth wondering whether the #BoycottNFL movement is more about political grandstanding than anything else.

Up until 2009, it wasn't even standard practice for NFL teams to be on the field during the anthem. Those who are decrying Kaepernick for kneeling should ask themselves if they considered it disrespectful when players didn't appear to acknowledge the Star-Spangled Banner at all.

.... Few people painted NFL owners who profited off patriotic displays as anti-American or anti-military. Instead, those labels have been thrown on Kaepernick, who's exercising his First Amendment rights. In actuality, there aren't many things more American than that.

.... Only one group in this equation is carrying out a shallow protest, and it isn't Kaepernick or the players following his lead. << --- Where Was The "Boycott NFL" Movement During the Paid Patriotism Scandal?​

But no --- let's jump on the black guy refusing to be a marionette for it and ignore the actual perpetrators.

 

[Fang]

Mods, this is a legitimate news story. Please leave it here where it will be seen by most members.

NFL owners consider requiring players to stand for anthem

Well now, in the spirit of resisting authoritarian decrees, I hope that all the players kneel at the anthem. LOL

A business owner writing you a check for millions, giving you the best equipment, trainers and food qualifies as an "authoritarian" these days simply because he's asking you to follow a few company rules like "don't piss off half the customer base by kneeling for the anthem"? You Liberals need go find some better causes. This one is pretty week. lol

Ummm how 'bout this ..................... don't allow the fucking Pentagon to inject, using your tax dollars, all this political bullshit into an event that has nothing to do with politics in the first place, duh?

What a load of fucking hypocrites.

How are they doing that?

Seriously? REALLY??

>> There's a complicated history involving the connection between patriotism and professional sporting events. Almost every team or organization in the country regularly holds ceremonies that commemorate those in the armed services. But last year (article is from 2016, so "last year" = 2015), Arizona senators John McCain and Jeff Flake found that the Department of Defense paid $6.8 million to 72 teams in the NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS to hold patriotic displays during games. These payments took place over a four-year period beginning in 2012.

Few actions appear to be more unpatriotic than multibillion-dollar sports franchises using military appreciation events as a way to stuff their coffers. Yet, the discovery of those duplicitous actions curiously didn't draw nearly the amount of outrage as Kaepernick's protest. With that in mind, it's worth wondering whether the #BoycottNFL movement is more about political grandstanding than anything else.

Up until 2009, it wasn't even standard practice for NFL teams to be on the field during the anthem. Those who are decrying Kaepernick for kneeling should ask themselves if they considered it disrespectful when players didn't appear to acknowledge the Star-Spangled Banner at all.

.... Few people painted NFL owners who profited off patriotic displays as anti-American or anti-military. Instead, those labels have been thrown on Kaepernick, who's exercising his First Amendment rights. In actuality, there aren't many things more American than that.

.... Only one group in this equation is carrying out a shallow protest, and it isn't Kaepernick or the players following his lead. << --- Where Was The "Boycott NFL" Movement During the Paid Patriotism Scandal?​

But no --- let's jump on the black guy refusing to be a marionette for it and ignore the actual perpetrators.

I already read about that. But you still didn't answer the question. Where did the Pentagon inject politics? I've been to more NFL games than I can count and I've seen plenty of military ceremonies. But never once did I hear any politics from these events. Commemorating/advertising the armed forces is not a political rally. Unless of course you're telling me Liberals really do hate the military so those events were really for the Republicans in the stands.

Now if you're simply telling me you don't want your tax dollars spent on these types of events. I get it and might even agree with you.

 

[BulletProof]

If the owners weren't afraid of being labeled racists by the true racists, the assholes of the left, they would have put an end to the flag protest the first time Kaepernick sat through the The Star-Spangled Banner. The proof of this is the intolerance the NFL has had for other "free speech" from players, when the speech has been unrelated to race.

It's pretty sad when the NFL feels the need to make a new rule to enforce expected behavior from players who prove themselves to be brats.

 

[Pogo]

I've been to more NFL games than I can count and I've seen plenty of military ceremonies. But never once did I hear any politics from these events.

So --- to make the 2nd sentence work, were you stuffing your fingers in your hears gong during the first sentence?

Commemorating/advertising the armed forces is not a political rally.

Of course it is.

How is it that playing a national anthem and expecting every marionette to stand up for it is "not political", and then all of a sudden declining to play the part of that marionette IS political?

Can't have it both ways. Either they're both political or neither one is. Having established that ---- which came first? And which is forcing its will upon the other?

Now if you're simply telling me you don't want your tax dollars spent on these types of events. I get it and might even agree with you.

Again ---- trying to have it both ways....

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The owners have TWO concerns that put fear in them:

1. Falling ticket sales.

2. Loss of their anti-trust exemption.

There is no moral or patriotic element in any of this.

Falling ticket sales??

Attendance has never been higher than this year (so far)...

2017 NFL Football Attendance - National Football League - ESPN

Depends on who you ask.

NFL national anthem protest denting ticket sales

Operators of two of the largest U.S. ticket marketplaces say they are seeing declines in orders for NFL games amid festering controversy over the national anthem.

NFL ticket sales at TickPick slumped 17.9 percent this week compared with the prior week, their steepest decline since 2014, while sales at TicketCity plunged 31 percent. For pro football games in September, ticket sales at TicketCity are down 16 percent from a year ago. TickPick's NFL sales rose this month, but by the smallest margin since 2015. The vendors' data reflect tickets sold in the secondary market, as opposed to direct sales from NFL teams.

NFL national anthem protest denting ticket sales

 

[EverCurious]

Only in liberal la-la land does showing appreciation and respecting those who risk their lives to protect your safety become "political."