http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com...for-national-anthem/

After facing backlash about standing in the tunnel during the national anthem last Sunday, Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey says the team will stand this Sunday.

“I promise you one thing, this week we will all be standing out there for the national anthem. Trust me,” Pouncey said Wednesday.

Pouncey says he expects the entire team to be on the field for the anthem.

“As far as I know it’s 100 percent participation,” Pouncey told reporters. “We love this country. It’s America. We know there are injustice in this world, but to me, personally, football is football and that’s what we need to approach it as.”

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I think the Steelers especially got called out by the fans because of the Villeneuva fiasco.

These fellas seem awfully patriotic suddenly.

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Originally posted by sdy:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com...for-national-anthem/

After facing backlash about standing in the tunnel during the national anthem last Sunday, Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey says the team will stand this Sunday.

“I promise you one thing, this week we will all be standing out there for the national anthem. Trust me,” Pouncey said Wednesday.

Pouncey says he expects the entire team to be on the field for the anthem.

“As far as I know it’s 100 percent participation,” Pouncey told reporters. “We love this country. It’s America. We know there are injustice in this world, but to me, personally, football is football and that’s what we need to approach it as.”

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I think the Steelers especially got called out by the fans because of the Villeneuva fiasco.

These fellas seem awfully patriotic suddenly.

They saw Steeler fans burning their hats, jackets and jerseys, etc. One more fiasco like last week, and they might be burning jerseys with the players still in them.

I wish the Cops at these games would all just call in sick. No need for law enforcement to be there. The NFL can hire bouncers like bars do and probably do it at a cheaper rate. If the NFL and the players want to protest police we shouldn't have to to be there.

The players have exerted their right to have their free speech in the workplace. I wish I, as an officer, could tell these bitches what I think.

^^^^
Yup. And I bet the whole "the team decided" to stay in the tunnel was the decision of that trashbag Tomlin.

Not that anyone here would buy a ticket anymore.... but:

Too little, too late.
Just because the commies are sorry they got caught showing their true colors doesn't mean I'm stupid enough to believe that they suddenly stopped hating my country.

Krappernick started this because "I am not going to stand up and show pride In a flag for a country that oppreses black people and people of color". He also mentioned "bodies in the streets while cops get paid leave and getting away with murder".

At this point anyone doing anything other than standing alone without any virtue signalling is in full agreement of the sentiments originally voiced by Krappernick. So, screw the NFL.

Looks like the CBS announcers will be naked this week and the NFL out a few dollars as well


Now, a CEO for a company that advertises during NFL games and provides wardrobes for NBC’s on-air NFL analysts and sportscasters has decided to take a stand against taking a knee. In fact, he has announced that he is pulling all ads and will no longer provide clothing to NBC talent, according to Independent Journal Review.


"Our companies will not condone unpatriotic behavior” in the NFL, Jones said in a statement. Jones, who has been a big supporter of President Trump, ordered his media buyer — ad agency Tombras Group in Knoxville — to pull all ads for Check Into Cash, Buy Here Pay here USA, or U.S. Money Stores from all NFL games “for the entire season.”

“When I see Colin Kaepernick lecturing the ‘oppressed’ wearing a Fidel Castro T-shirt you realize the hypocrisy to this stupidity,” Jones stated , according to The Chattanoogan. “I love America. They have the right to protest and I have the right to turn off the channel and place our ads elsewhere.”


https://conservativetribune.co...m_content=2017-09-27

^^^^^ Awesome! We need more to stand up!

We'll see what happens before tonight's game and what the talking heads have to say.

^^Right on - yup!^^

Well looking at sdy's chart, if the Panthers played the 49er's, I might
Nope I am done.

They could wear all red, white, and blue with sparklers up their, meh never mind they had their chance last Sunday.
I am done with the NFL, we know their true colors.

Where's the category in the chart of, "Stood respectfully with hand over heart?"

When our kids threw a tantrum, we usually ignored them. When they realized they weren't getting any attention, they straightened up.

You can watch the 'horns and Iowa State now, on ESPN.

ESPN

he he

That's good

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Originally posted by parabellum:
ESPN

he he

That's good

Things are seldom ever perfect, you know.

So I wonder if this, joining arms is coming from the NFL and not teams and players. Maybe they have seen the push back and are now worried about profits and this is their compromise.

Will be interesting to see what happens this weekend.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
You can watch the 'horns and Iowa State now, on ESPN.

I am Looking for an upset, not a fan of the Horns. Sorry.

As this plays out, remember that Collin Kaepernick started it. He is why the kneelers kneel.

Kaepernick quotes:

“One thing Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest more in their education system than they do in their prison system, which we do not do here even though we’re fully capable of doing that,” Kaepernick said.

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"I’m going to continue to sit. I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed," Kaepernick on Sunday. "To me, this is something that has to change and when there is significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it’s supposed to represent and this country is representing people the way that it’s supposed to, I’ll stand."

"There’s a lot of things that need to change. One specifically is police brutality," said Kaepernick. "There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. Cops are getting paid leave for killing people. That’s not right. That’s not right by anyone’s standards."

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Are you concerned that this can be seen as a blanket indictment of law enforcement in general?
CK: There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police. So that’s a large part of it and they’re government officials. They are put in place by the government. So that’s something that this country has to change. There’s things we can do to hold them more accountable. Make those standards higher. You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That’s insane. Someone that’s holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.”

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“People are getting too caught up in the flag,” Kaepernick said. “At the end of the day the flag is just a piece of cloth and I am not going to value a piece of cloth over people’s lives. That’s just not something I can do, it’s not something I feel morally right doing and my character won’t allow me to do that.”

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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color," Kaepernick said. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

let's ask the NFL if all of this is their position, since they support the kneelers