re: OT: Okay I'm done

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Your dad fought for their right to kneel if they want to, and he'd tell your dumbass that if he were here. This isn't communist China.

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Here is my take.

The NFL messed up by allowing the players to inject their politics ONTO the field. They were afraid of the backlash from players and media if they told them they had to stand so they hoped it would just go away.

But it didn't go away. And it pissed the fans off. Now they are stuck because they allowed it and are afraid to not allow it but know they run the risk of further eroding the image of the league.

On the players side there are mixed attitudes but they don't want to break the unity of the player, not out of brotherhood, but because it will impact performance and endanger the union.

All of their hopes that people would lose interest in their shitshow were dashed when Trump decided to gin up the base by blasting the league and the players.

The league is so fricked at this point that they don't have an organized reaction so you have players kneeling for our anthem while standing for foreign anthems. Some teams try to duck the issue by not coming out of the locker room. Probably the wiser teams just came out and let the players do whatever they individually wanted to do because that was what they have been doing all along. Why draw more attention?