NFL unveils national anthem 'respect' mandate

[Mook]

Amid repeated protests during the playing of the national anthem over the past two seasons, the NFL on Wednesday passed a revised policy that mandates players and team personnel present on the sideline “shall stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem.”

The revision allows players who would not wish to stand to remain in the locker room. Also under the revision, each franchise will have the power to issue their own policies, which could include fines for players protesting the anthem, under the conduct detrimental provision of the league’s personal conduct policy.

The league also now has the power to fine any franchise that has personnel that does not stand or "show respect" while present on the sideline for the anthem.

The policy was passed Wednesday in Atlanta at the spring league meeting.

The NFL Players Association has already taken issue with the policy, which was reached without the union present.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...nal-anthem-policy-kneeling-protest/637050002/

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[Chester Copperpot]

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Bout time they made a stance instead of being all limp dicked

 

[Flyn]

NFL owners mostly just want to make money and win. IMO, most of the players think the same. The minority can sit in the locker room and sing We shall overcome.

 

[FESTER665]

Think anyone will have the cajones to go out and kneel and get their owner a fine?

 

[ragingclue]

Think anyone will have the cajones to go out and kneel and get their owner a fine?

Of course. Anything to be a martyr these days.

 

[Flyn]

Think anyone will have the cajones to go out and kneel and get their owner a fine?

They'll probably think about Kaepernick and Eric Reid first.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Boo hoo. I don't like the lame ass business casual dress code at my work, it suppresses my freedom of speech by not allowing me to express myself by wearing what I want. I deal with it because I get paid to be there and follow their rules.

 

[blakbearddelite]

These poor athletes. It must really suck to drive your Lamborghini back to your 10,000 sq ft mansion off the ocean and think about how someone is oppressing you.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Didn't watch last year, don't plan to this year, even after this desperate attempt to get viewers back.

Think anyone will have the cajones to go out and kneel and get their owner a fine?

Of course there's going to be morons that continue to test the boundaries and see what they can get away with, just because.

 

[blakbearddelite]

I don't think I'd jeopardize my $5M/year job by protesting the symbol of a country that allows me to make $5M/year.

 

[Fish]

Why is this a thing still?

 

[Spectragod]

NFL owners mostly just want to make money and win. IMO, most of the players think the same. The “minority’s” can sit in the locker room and sing We shall overcome.

***FIXED***

 

[guspech750]

No fucks given

 

[zenriddles]

TV will remain off this year too, I guess.

I don't even know what the Bears record was last year and at this point I don't care anymore because they belong to the NFL.

Damn. I will miss football. Not one penny from me you cunts. Someone else can watch the commercials that pay your salaries.

Not good enough. Entertainers are no longer entertaining for me, I don't support you back, and spankings have NOT been handed out. Buh-Bye. You're dismissed.
[MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] - Thanks for the heads up, won't even try at this point.

 

[Flyn]

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner—O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 

[Ti28]

If I am not mistaken, the "rule" states, something along the lines in you're on the field you must stand.

AKA don't leave the locker room and you won't have an issue.

 

[Fish]

Or heres an idea, dont broadcast it.

God damn living room Captain Amurikas all over once this shit hit the fan.

 

[Flyn]

We pay a lot of tax dollars for the patriotic anthem displays. NFL doesn't do it for free.

In 2015, Senator John McCain and the Senate Oversight Committee issued a statement and corresponding report condemning practice of “paid patriotism,” as charades, “conducted not out of a sense of patriotism, but rather done “for profit in the form of millions in taxpayer dollars going from the Department of Defense to wealthy pro sports franchises.”

The report continued to detail its findings:

Unfortunately, contrary to the public statements made by DOD and the NFL, the majority of the contracts—72 of the 122 contracts we analyzed—clearly show that DOD paid for patriotic tributes at professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer games.v These paid tributes included on-field color guard, enlistment and reenlistment ceremonies, performances of the national anthem, full-field flag details, ceremonial first pitches and puck drops. The National Guard paid teams for the “opportunity” to sponsor military appreciation nights and to recognize its birthday. It paid the Buffalo Bills to sponsor its Salute to the Service game.vi DOD even paid teams for the “opportunity” to perform surprise welcome home promotions for troops returning from deployments and to recognize wounded warriors.

Ultimately, the Senate was pretty clear in its conclusion that “paid patriotism” was not only distasteful, but also a gross misuse of taxpayer money:

Even if we accept the DOD’s assurances that the young men and women watching these games may be sufficiently inspired to military service by a half-time reenlistment ceremony, some of the displays funded in these contracts defy explanation as a legitimate recruiting purpose and may be little more than a taxpayer-funded boondoggle.

In my mind, though, it’s the tremendous disrespect this practice embodies that is really the problem. Senator McCain said it best:

Given the immense sacrifices made by our service members, it seems more appropriate that any organization with a genuine interest in honoring them, and deriving public credit as a result, should do so at its own expense and not at that of the American taxpayer. Americans deserve the ability to assume that tributes for our men and women in military uniform are genuine displays of national pride, which many are, rather than taxpayer-funded DOD marketing gimmicks.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...utrage-you-about-the-nfl-the-national-anthem/

 

[Great White Drake]

Can’t they just play fucking sports??? Everything doesn’t have to be politics.

 

[Flyn]

I watch football for football, not for politics. I'd be happy to see the government stop paying for the anthem. I bet the teams would continue with it at no charge to us. Maybe not if it's a hassle and they're not making money. It would be interesting to see what they do.

 

[Fish]

Its rare to see it broadcast for a baseball game, and there are a shit ton more of those. Just cut it out and call it a day.