Is it a grudge match?
Is he still angry that the NFL rejected his USFL merger bid?
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In reply to black
You don't even have to go back to the USFL days. Trump was looking into buying the Buffalo Bills not too long ago.
Some might suggest that they should have let him do it in retrospect so he would let his presidential dream be put on hold
But it doesn't appear to be even that complex. The line has been drawn with regard to the protestors, and the Trump administration has continued their efforts to intensify the divide and undermine the issue at hand.
In reply to Tryangle
Some might suggest that they should have let him do it in retrospect so he would let his presidential dream be put on hold
Damn!!! Could have saved us from the insanity.
True, he is trying to detract from his failures as President. I think it's a little of both ( holding a grudge and being an opportunist ).
Smh... Anyone that claims kneeling for the anthem is disrespectful has another agenda.
No one never said anything about disrespecting the flag or American troops.
The knee is to protest police shootings of UNARMED black men.
But Trump and Co. are doing a good job of making it into another issue.
In reply to black
No love from u on the passing of the Hawk, Connie
What will happen when the WRs take a kneel in the next CB game.
Trump probably doesn't want the NFL to fail, he just wants to feed his rabid fan base and force the athletes to stand, hand on heart, all that jazz. Probably even declare an allegiance to Trump as a bonus.
He has "friends" who clearly supported his campaign like Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft, two of the more prominent team owners.
But like Gun_Play says, it's about redefining the issue as being anti-America. And it's worked. The narrative as far as most of white America is concerned, is that the guys hate the military and the vets.
It inspires memes like this one.
In reply to Tryangle
Military in USA is the bedrock of the economy.
3 in 5 families are on Military benefits in the South
Just for being a "reservist" in the military brings a BOUNTY of uncle sam benefits
GOVERNMENT BROCHURE LINK Health, Loans, Money, Child Care, Rent money, Dental... on and on
This is a well kept secret 'prop' of the US economy, and they print millions, wage war every year to support it.
In reply to pelon
But meanwhile we see reports of how the VA has failed in taking care of war injured. I mean that should be a bigger public scandal, right?
Maybe the DoD spending on the NFL would be better served treating its soldiers.
Gonna be an interesting "Salute to Service" month in November.
In reply to Tryangle
Trump does not ACTUALLY give a rats ass about Vets. This is a fraudulent punt (NFL pun intended)
Trump has CALCULATED segments of the undeserved voter block that he could manipulate - in part due to the strategic 'How to get Trump Elected' plan of Bannon and others.
1. Vets
2. Police
3. Active Duty
These "voter markets" have been documented as being exploited politically, and Trump - a man who never previously gave a PENNY (personally to any of them before he became a politician) is now seen as a CHAMPION of that subset.
Amazing.
By throwing tax payer money and very vocal support of these sectors, Trump has wrapped up the greatest 'fake punt' coup in the last 50 years. (Also: He dodged the draft)
He's tapped/exploited the vets brilliantly. Very willing to spend (TAX DOLLARS) to keep them too.
In reply to black
Whatever the reason, he is correct. Cannot condone disrespecting our anthem, the flag and most of all our vets.
In reply to nitro
I respect your position on the flag but don't give me that bullshit about vets dying for the flag, that is done to drum up sympathy. There are injured vets from Iraq and Afghanistan that support the protesters. You can say, they fought for their right to protest.
In reply to pelon
Wow!!! That seems like an unusually high number.
In reply to black
Don't mistake 'military benefits' with primary income (vocation).... It's a hidden 'open secret'.
In reply to pelon
Well, I know that most of the large military bases are in the south and retirees and veterans health care are through the VA system but that still seems unusually large.
In reply to tc1
What will happen when the WRs take a kneel in the next CB game.
A true legend of the game but I never actually saw him play, it's about 3 to 4 years before I really became interested in the game.
RIP
In reply to black
Large, but you are thinking of families like 4 people... no example: If your uncle served... you get deeply discounted auto insurance. You are thinking 'benefits' like welfare.
The number of people that are working in say Home Depot, and on "reserved duty" + benefits... is much much larger in the south than anywhere else.
Oh: and it's a certain demographic... maybe that's the part I'm missing excluding..
In reply to pelon
You are hitting on all cylinders only point missing is this flag thing is Trumps new birther issue ---- its still all about race --- check it out Tom Brady did not go with the super-bowl winning Patriot to the white house ---- Trump hasent uttered a peep about it ---- Steph Curry says he wasent going with his NBA champ Golden state team ---- Trump went ballistic ----
What is so illogical about this is in prayers the Christian get down on their knees men proposing to their girl take a knee ----- somehow Trump is able to con people that kneeling is disrespectful ---- he is convincing those who wants to be convinced
In reply to birdseye
Maybe when Trump proposed to Melania, instead of going on bended knee he called her into the boardroom and offered her a job opportunity?
In reply to Tryangle
Don't know about that, coming out of the USFL fiasco Pete Rozelle said NEVER FUCKING EVER!!!!
Pete Rozelle saw right through that fucking transparent shyster!!!
In reply to Larr Pullo
Fascinating article, this.
The Doug Flutie story, hilarious.
In reply to Tryangle
Trump has been pulling them old tricks for years now...
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Replying to @jeffpearlman
We the People support Donald Trump and thank the President for exposing rich, spoiled brat athletes for who they really are! Go America!
...guruincortland‏ aka nitro
... taking a break from cussing Obama!
In reply to nitro
I have no sympathy for the racist American national anthem
First off, the song, which was originally written as a poem, didn't become our national anthem until 1931 which was 117 years after Key wrote it. Most of us have no true idea what in the hell we've been hearing or singing all these years, but as it turns out, Key's full poem actually has a third stanza which few of us have ever heard. In it, he openly celebrates the murder of slaves. Yes, really.
It goes like this:
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.
While it has always been known that the song was written during American slavery and that when those words about this nation being the "land of the free" didn't apply to the millions who had been held in bondage, few of us had any idea that the song itself was rooted in the celebration of slavery and the murder of Africans in America, who were being hired by the British military to give them strength not only in the War of 1812, but in the Battle of Fort McHenry of 1814. These black men were called the Corps of Colonial Marines and they served valiantly for the British military. Key despised them. He was glad to see them experience terror and death in war to the point that he wrote a poem about it. That poem is now our national anthem.
While I fundamentally reject the notion that anyone who owned other human beings was either good, moral, or decent, Francis Scott Key left absolutely no doubt that he was a stone cold bigot. He came from generations of plantation owning bigots. They got wealthy off of it. Key, as District Attorney of Washington, fought for slavery and against abolitionists every chance he got. Even when Africans in D.C. were injured or murdered, he stood strong against justice for them. He openly spoke racist words against Africans in America. Key said that they were "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."
While San Francisco 49ers quarter back Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand for the national anthem because of the overflowing abundance of modern day injustice in America, he has helped bring to light the fact that this song and its author are deeply rooted in violent white supremacy.
I will never stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" another day in my damn life. I don't care where I am or who's watching. The statue of the racist Cecil Rhodes, which stood tall in South Africa as a painful relic from white supremacists until March of 2015, was finally removed once and for all. It should've never been erected. It should've been removed a very long time ago, student leaders made it clear that they had had enough.
Like Kaepernick, I've had enough of injustice in America and I've had enough of anthems written by bigots. Colin Kaepernick has provided a spark.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well. We must do away with it like South Africans did away with their monument to Cecil Rhodes. We must do away with it like South Carolina did with the Confederate Flag over their state house.
In reply to mikesiva
That is why i like this site. I learn a lot from people like you and pelon.
Biased most of the times but you give reasons for it.
In reply to mikesiva
Very insightful stuff.
These were the same people that were murdering blacks and going to church on Sundays.
In reply to mikesiva
Meanwhile Cecil Rhodes statue to remain at Oxford after 'overwhelming support'
And the Rhodes Scholarship is still one of the most revered
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. Albert Camus.
It is odd that a country like the US would adopt essentially a war song, as its national anthem.
I thought this long ago, even before I knew about the third verse. Germany's anthem is about German pride and unity. England's one is about loving their monarch.
The American one is about blowing stuff up. And a plucky little flag hanging in the midst of the bomb bursts.
In reply to Tryangle
I thought this long ago, even before I knew about the third verse. Germany's anthem is about German pride and unity.
Was that after Hitler?
Arrogance disguised as patriotism.
Fair question, I don't have the answer to that.
In reply to black
I think it's only fitting that the Murican anthem was penned during a war and is about war and destruction.
Any reference to peace or harmony in that song would sound...well kinda weird.
In reply to SnoopDog
Any reference to peace or harmony in that song would sound...well kinda weird.
Boy, don't make me laugh.
In reply to black
It's Friday Bro!!!
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