Stand-up team: No Philadelphia Eagles players knelt for national anthem in 2017

[shockedcanadian]

Interesting to read, one of seven teams to not be worms and kneel. Maybe I won't mind if they win after all...



Stand-up team: No Philadelphia Eagles players knelt for national anthem in 2017

If you’re planning to watch the Super Bowl but you can’t stand the NFL take-a-knee protests, you may want to root for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Not a single Eagles player sat or knelt during the national anthem, one of just seven teams with perfect non-kneeling records, in a season that saw 684 such incidents, according to a study released Thursday by Sports Pundit.

The other Super Bowl LII team, the New England Patriots, landed in the middle of the pack with 17 incidents of anthem sitting or kneeling, wedged between the Buffalo Bills with 16 and the Cleveland Browns with 20.

Still, neither of the Super Bowl teams was in any danger of catching the leader: the Seattle Seahawks, which easily scored the most episodes of sitting or kneeling with 156, followed by the San Francisco 49ers with 110.

Both of those teams play in the NFC West. Oddly enough, the division’s other two teams — the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams — had zero take-a-knee protests.

 

[miketx]

Nice. What post will the awaited "You don't believe in the first amendment" show up?

 

[usmbguest5318]

You do realize Eagles team members protest just as Colin K did, but using a different protest signal?

• Why Malcolm Jenkins, other Philadelphia Eagles demonstrate -- but don't kneel -- during anthems
• Philadelphia Eagles owner joins players, coaches on sideline to link arms during national anthem

The point of non-violent demonstration/protesting isn't the form of non-violence one takes, but rather that one is protesting/demonstrating one's dissatisfaction with something. Just what be that something and why s/he is protesting is up to the demontrater, not others, to declare.

EDIT:

Frankly, I think the raised fist and arm-linking is ambiguous as goes a means of protesting, but it's the means the Eagles team have chosen, so fine for them. AFAIC, it's just a different means than kneeling. Neither is a solitarily extended middle-finger, so I'm fine with either.​

 

[PredFan]

I hope they win then, but I still won’t watch.

 

[PredFan]

 

[Auld Phart]

 

[idb]

Interesting to read, one of seven teams to not be worms and kneel. Maybe I won't mind if they win after all...



Stand-up team: No Philadelphia Eagles players knelt for national anthem in 2017

If you’re planning to watch the Super Bowl but you can’t stand the NFL take-a-knee protests, you may want to root for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Not a single Eagles player sat or knelt during the national anthem, one of just seven teams with perfect non-kneeling records, in a season that saw 684 such incidents, according to a study released Thursday by Sports Pundit.

The other Super Bowl LII team, the New England Patriots, landed in the middle of the pack with 17 incidents of anthem sitting or kneeling, wedged between the Buffalo Bills with 16 and the Cleveland Browns with 20.

Still, neither of the Super Bowl teams was in any danger of catching the leader: the Seattle Seahawks, which easily scored the most episodes of sitting or kneeling with 156, followed by the San Francisco 49ers with 110.

Both of those teams play in the NFC West. Oddly enough, the division’s other two teams — the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams — had zero take-a-knee protests.

Good for them.
They have the right to take a knee or not take a knee.
Hooray for free speech.