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Divemaster
08-27-2016, 17:09
49'ers choke artist Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem at the beginning of their preseason game against the Green Bay Packers last night. Here's why:
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
"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."
http://bit.ly/2bWAZ4v
Kaepernick has no freaking idea what oppression really is. He should also remember that freedom of expression cuts both ways.
F him and the NFL
NFL POLICY
NFL: Players are encouraged but not required to stand for national anthem
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/08/27/nfl-players-are-encouraged-but-not-required-to-stand-for-national-anthem/
He is a fine example of what the following quote means:
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt."
Just another clown who I no longer have any use for -- not that I ever did to begin with.
Him -- and the NFL -- can disappear for all I care!
This is rich coming from a multi-million dollar player. Americans certainly don' have to watch the 49ers play and if they had any sense, they wouldn't.
Badger52
08-28-2016, 05:50
This is rich coming from a multi-million dollar player.
"Kaepernick, who is biracial, was adopted and raised by white parents and siblings."
Is this a great country or what?
:boohoo
ETA: He can do what he wants & is of no real consequence to the movements of the Earth. Perhaps when he visits Chicago he could work on all the violence being visited on people of color... by other people of color.
What a turd. This morning the news is trying to mitigate the bad news about it and make it into a positive act.
WTF. I am so tired of the media and turds like him.
What a turd. This morning the news is trying to mitigate the bad news about it and make it into a positive act.
WTF. I am so tired of the media and turds like him.
They have all drank from the deep well of PC'ism. They drank it to the last dregs.
Golf1echo
08-28-2016, 08:23
I was thinking the same thing as many of the posts above, just who where the people in Colon's life that helped him out and forwarded his future enabling him to rise to the point of quarterbacking a Super Bowl ? Those same people who facilitated his earnings?
Colon interviewed with the Broncos and others this last year and was rejected by those teams.. his current stats are not good...the intangibles obviously weren't there either....just another as$ hat flailing in the wind as I suspect his earnings will be too.
Wonder what number 85, LA Rams Jack Youngblood thinks...:lifter
Kaepernick sits thru national anthem...he can sit on the bench for the rest of the season.
A privileged prick who hasn't the sense to realize it - oppressed indeed.
I like the idea expressed above about him working on the ground in Chiraq to stop the near daily murders - that would deserve some airtime - badmouthing the nation that provides him the very opportunities which he enjoys...not so much.
His misplaced symbolic act makes him feel like he has actually done something...all he has really accomplished is to express disrespect to a nation...while he sits on his ass...sad really.
blue02hd
08-28-2016, 09:45
So how much is he donating to charity? How many hours of volunteer work has he racked up? Sitting on your ass with your lower lip sticking out and your chin raised isn't really quite the same.
Streck-Fu
08-29-2016, 06:18
He wore a Malcolm X hat and shirt to the post game interview so it seems that he is having an identity crisis and is trying to come to terms with his bi-racial identity.
All this talk of diversity and shit is causing more division and problems. People are diversifying themselves into self segregation.
For every person like Colin that is troubled by their origins, I think of the Ancestry.com commercial in which the actor describes that he grew up thinking he was German and participated in all the German culture activities. Then he found out he was actually Scottish and had to sell his lederhosen....
Just roll on...some people just have to have a hard time being themselves.
Everybody wants to be a victim today. Everyone wants to have a cause because they can't get by with who they are.
Victims are pitied and can do and say what they want with impunity because it a victim is questioned, then you are accused of victim bashing.
Poor little Colin...such a horrible life he as lead.
bblhead672
08-29-2016, 07:40
I argued with a liberal relative of mine over the confederate flag being deemed "racist" that the next step in the agenda would be the American flag. She said I was being ridiculous.
I was off somewhat as the Gadsden flag was attacked first, but standby as the race baiters go after the American flag. After all, it has flown over this "racist" country from its earliest days of founding by a bunch of racist white guys.
mojaveman
08-29-2016, 07:47
This morning the news is trying to mitigate the bad news about it and make it into a positive act.
And how many younger people who look up to professional athletes as role models are going to want to emulate him?
All this talk of diversity and shit is causing more division and problems. People are diversifying themselves into self segregation.
I tend to agree. Mr. Kaepernick is just a higher profile symptom of our policy and leadership problems (failure) - divided Americans encouraged to further divide into more and more groups fighting and bickering among ourselves...and the media fans the flames.
If that's not bad enough...import more non-assimilating cultures and more poverty.
Division is a Molotov cocktail recipe for disaster.
Let's hope we (and political leadership at all levels) can generate more respect for our nation and its symbols soon before it's too late. We as a nation are not magically immune from the problems of division.
Well stated, rest assured you won't see this on the national news.
http://ijr.com/2016/08/681907-army-ranger-vet-tells-colin-kaepernick-what-he-should-be-doing-instead-of-sitting-out-natl-anthem/
Old Dog New Trick
08-29-2016, 10:03
Well stated, rest assured you won't see this on the national news.
http://ijr.com/2016/08/681907-army-ranger-vet-tells-colin-kaepernick-what-he-should-be-doing-instead-of-sitting-out-natl-anthem/
I sure hope the media and Hollywood elites like Dawn Cheidel don't jump his ass for misspelling Dwyane Wade's name, like that other white fellow did.
Message from a non-oppressed black man to Colin Kaepernick… by Allen B. West. (http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/message-non-oppressed-black-man-colin-kaepernick)
OH, and then there is this: Hey Kaepernick, THIS is what a REAL champion does… (http://www.allenbwest.com/michele/hey-kaepernick-real-champion)
Pat
His first amendment rights afford him the freedom to be a loser. He should worry more about being able to read coverage and handle the blitz or he will be flipping burgers soon...
TacOfficer
08-29-2016, 13:35
To Mr Kaepernick,
I'm in a position to offer you an opportunity to observe the day to day oppression visited upon the masses you say you empathize with.
Beware, In this particular location bring body amor, as they tend to shoot each other with frequent regularity and typically not very sympathetic to visitors to their cultural/jungle.
Bring your own lawn chair and have a seat at Long Ave and West End Ave in Chicago.
Good luck and let me know if you seek directions?
Enjoy. :)
Colin Kaepernick has made headlines in recent days for his decision to sit during the National Anthem. According to the mainstream media, his reasoning is simple (because the only thing that is comprehendible to the majority of Americans is a soundbite) - police brutality and the oppression of people of color.
Implicit in that simple narrative is one thing unsaid - it's Trump's fault... and Hillary will fight the good fight to support black people.
However, if one took the time to actually read Kaepernick's full interview transcript, the narrative is very different, and not at all what the mainstream would like you to hear...
Colin Kaepernick (CK): People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it’s not happening for all right now.
Media: Does the election year have anything to do with timing?
CK: It wasn’t a timing thing, it wasn’t something that was planned. But I think the two presidential candidates that we currently have also represent the issues that we have in this country right now.
Media: Do you want to expand on that?
CK: You have Hillary who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who’s openly racist. We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn’t make sense to me because if that was any other person you’d be in prison. So, what is this country really standing for?
Media: It is a country that has elected a black president twice…
CK: It has elected a black president but there are also a lot of things that haven’t changed.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-29/what-media-did-not-report-here-ignored-part-kaepernicks-speech
This young lady pretty much says it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30l6H7Ubk8I
Old Dog New Trick
08-29-2016, 20:42
This young lady pretty much says it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30l6H7Ubk8I
BOOM!
Divemaster
08-29-2016, 21:04
I've taken a step back and reanalyzed the whole Kaepernick sitting through the anthem thing.
1. This was preseason NFL football.
2. Preseason NFL football is a dress rehearsal for regular season NFL football.
3. In a dress rehearsal (think mission rehearsal) everyone practices the part they will play during the NFL season.
4. Colin Kaepernick was sitting on the bench.
5. Colin Kaepernick successfully completed his dress rehearsal for the regular season of NFL football.
bblhead672
08-30-2016, 09:08
CK is merely repeating words he has heard other people say without benefit of independent thought or research of his own.
Donald Trump probably has put more black people to work than either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
...the guy is just more proof that you don't have to be wise to be an athlete, and that no matter how much money you have, you cannot buy self respect or class.
I also think his step parents wasted a lot of effort on his up-bringing.
PedOncoDoc
08-30-2016, 14:51
I heard he also sits when he pees....so he's got that going for him...
:D
Word around the campfire is, he recently converted to Islam for his girlfriend's sake.
Ironic isn't it ... the fact that he's now a Moolum and is getting paid a butt load of $$$ to play with a pig skin.
Ahhhh ... the freedom of the Liberal mind. :eek:
bailaviborita
08-31-2016, 00:38
Radio station this morning defended him - saying that the National Anthem is racist. Something about the third verse celebrating the killing of slaves. I read it and didn't see it explicitly condoning the killing of slaves, but I guess you read into it what you want:
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.
Does it mean those pressed into service by the British against their will? Does it mean American ex-slaves who fought against the U.S.? Or was it just a convenient word that rhymed with "brave" and "grave" and "wave"....?
Astronomy
08-31-2016, 19:01
It's a free country (more or less). He can say what he wants. The Free Market will respond accordingly.
I could shit care less about 99% of "sports heroes". My heroes were always standing in the ranks beside me.
How 'bout a hymn in his honor?
"Hymn, Him, Fuck Him..."
It's a free country (more or less). He can say what he wants. The Free Market will respond accordingly.
I could shit care less about 99% of "sports heroes". My heroes were always standing in the ranks beside me.
How 'bout a hymn in his honor?
"Hymn, Him, Fuck Him..."
I agree 100%
I still think that he did this because he is on thin ice and might have not made the preseason cut. By doing this he was setting him self up for a "Hay they cut me because I stood up for a cause and I was a activist and a black man that the white NFL slave owners did not like". Just my take....
I agree 100%
I still think that he did this because he is on thin ice and might have not made the preseason cut. By doing this he was setting him self up for a "Hay they cut me because I stood up for a cause and I was a activist and a black man that the white NFL slave owners did not like". Just my take....
Maybe it was partially because he was pussy-whipped. Got his nose into some activist and went full retard.
It's happened to better men...
Old Dog New Trick
08-31-2016, 21:48
Where's the Joe Montana face palm meme?
I support every professional athlete that falls on their sword for social justice. It's even better on national television. In what other country could you disrespect, disagree and promote your idyllic ideology and not wind up missing by morning?
Ain't aMErica great!
bblhead672
09-01-2016, 14:22
The story won't die...
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/09/01/colin-kaepernick-caught-wearing-socks-showing-pig-cops.html
Team Sergeant
09-01-2016, 22:03
Yeah, and if the "Americans" that watch football just shut it off for 2 weeks Kaepernick would be asking folks if he can "biggie size that for you?"
America is half dead and the other half doesn't give a shit about anything anymore, well, except themselves.
I know there is a difference for sure but I do understand the sentiment given in this attachment.
I know there is a difference for sure but I do understand the sentiment given in this attachment.
Been out of the Army a loooong time. I’ve been told by folks who’ve ETS’d not so long ago that there is no longer a requirement stop and exit their vehicles anymore. Is that so?:munchin
We never had to exit our vehicles. We had to stop, but that was it.
Old Dog New Trick
09-02-2016, 12:34
Been out of the Army a loooong time. I’ve been told by folks who’ve ETS’d not so long ago that there is no longer a requirement stop and exit their vehicles anymore. Is that so?:munchin
You really have been out a loooong time. Yes, in the early '80s that was protocol on at least Ft. Riley, KS. Especially if you were driving a military vehicle. If you could see or hear the cannon, the Flag or the music, you stopped, exited the vehicle and rendered a hand salute when in uniform. The whole post came to a brief halt and you stood there until movement began again.
'Course the Army let us drink beer with lunch two (too) we must have been more disciplined back then than today's crop of soldiers.
At a Kaserne in Germany (1982) we had a young man (SP4 on his own) that played Tattoo (Taps) on trumpet every night at 22:00 rain hail or snow. Damn near everyone stopped what they were doing and rendered a salute to where the flagpole stood. Honorable times!
"insert long winded diatribe here"
....fuck c0lin kaPernick
fuck him right in his,
well.... fuck him right in his colon
coincidentally...
a c0linoscopy is a process were they point a camera at an asshole
Golf1echo
09-02-2016, 14:15
^ He looks like a Sigmoid to me :D
TrapLine
09-07-2016, 07:45
I liked the response by Team USA's hockey coach John Tortorella. "If any of my players sit on the bench for the National Anthem, they will sit there the rest of the game." :lifter
I liked the response by Team USA's hockey coach John Tortorella. "If any of my players sit on the bench for the National Anthem, they will sit there the rest of the game." :lifter
I like that! Good for him for saying it. After all, everyone else says what they feel.
bblhead672
09-07-2016, 08:00
I liked the response by Team USA's hockey coach John Tortorella. "If any of my players sit on the bench for the National Anthem, they will sit there the rest of the game." :lifter
Let's see how long he sticks with that once the PC crowd, BLM and other lefty groups start demanding his retraction or resignation.
PedOncoDoc
09-07-2016, 09:00
Let's see how long he sticks with that once the PC crowd, BLM and other lefty groups start demanding his retraction or resignation.
They don't hold too much sway over hockey - I wish the same sentiment was held by the coaches for all teams representing the country (e.g. Women's national soccer team and others).
Former Seahawk and SF Soldier Nate Boyer's interview on Kaepernick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq6zh3134lM
Pat
Streck-Fu
09-09-2016, 06:50
Let's see how long he sticks with that once the PC crowd, BLM and other lefty groups start demanding his retraction or resignation.
Not many BLM types are into hockey like they are football and basketball.
bblhead672
09-09-2016, 08:55
Not many BLM types are into hockey like they are football and basketball.
True, but they go where Soros and company tell them to go.
WarriorDiplomat
09-09-2016, 20:01
My biggest birch is he is doing his protest on company time. His right to protest is his right but when he is on the clock he is working for the team and he should STFU about his personal opinions. I quit watching sports years ago and things like this do not make me want to go back to it. BTW I plays football all through high school as well as other sports.
Agreed, I too was an athlete but lacked the discipline and maybe the talent to get wealthy from it maybe I should protest because the "man" is keeping me down....
A company like the NFL needs to put their foot down and squash this.
If I'm an owner and made a multi million dollar contract to an athlete and he jeopardizes my profit by bringing race politics onto the job he's gone, benched, suspended etc...
bblhead672
09-14-2016, 13:32
Agreed, I too was an athlete but lacked the discipline and maybe the talent to get wealthy from it maybe I should protest because the "man" is keeping me down....
A company like the NFL needs to put their foot down and squash this.
If I'm an owner and made a multi million dollar contract to an athlete and he jeopardizes my profit by bringing race politics onto the job he's gone, benched, suspended etc...
The billionaire boys club don't give a damn about what's right, moral or American - only in what it takes to continue raking in the bucks. If their employees want to make public protests while working, fine with the owners as long as the employees show up and do their job. Well, as long as the protests don't run afoul of whatever the commandant of the NFL says that day is league policy about a particular subject.
WarriorDiplomat
09-14-2016, 20:27
The billionaire boys club don't give a damn about what's right, moral or American - only in what it takes to continue raking in the bucks. If their employees want to make public protests while working, fine with the owners as long as the employees show up and do their job. Well, as long as the protests don't run afoul of whatever the commandant of the NFL says that day is league policy about a particular subject.
Yeah unfortunately true the Denver Bronco's Marshall was scheduled for a signing here in the Springs but the owner of the store cancelled the event because of negative public feedback.
TOMAHAWK9521
09-14-2016, 22:32
I wondered how long it would take for activist legislators to join in the stupidity:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/09/14/state-senator-refuses-to-stand-during-pledge-of-allegiance-in-solidarity-with-colin-kaepernick/
If those of the civilian authority no longer wish to show respect to the flag, can those who defend it choose to decline paying respect to said civilian authority? I'm not talking about flipping them the bird, a throat punch or swift kick to the nether region. Perhaps just blowing them off and giving them one's back or decline to shake their hands.
Petty, disrespectful and against regs, I know. But frankly, I believe these supposed "leaders" should have to earn the respect of the military and not simply have it given to them.
I wondered how long it would take for activist legislators to join in the stupidity:
Here is her "platform".
• The injustice of police brutality — the refusal to mandate police body cameras;
• The injustice of poverty — the underfunding of our public schools;
• The injustice of voter suppression — passing Voter ID laws;
• The injustice of not having health care — not expanding Medicaid;
• The injustice of unlivable wages — refusing to raise minimum wage and the right-to-work attack on labor;
• The injustice of unequal pay for women;
• The injustice of mass incarceration; and
• The injustice of economic disparity.
Notice how every single item falls under her power to change. This mooslem is standing in solidarity with kimpernickel (both powerful, influencial and quite wealthy I might add) over shit that she and her peers have created. She must need some more twitter followers.
Nasheed was taken into police custody on October 20, 2014, in front of the Ferguson, Missouri police station. News reports indicated she was in possession of a firearm at the time of her arrest.[10] She was criticized for possessing a weapon after having sponsored anti-gun legislation.[11] Nasheed did possess a valid conceal and carry permit at the time she was taken into custody.[citation needed]
Another protester said Nasheed refused to get off the street even after police gave instructions to the protesters to do so. After police smelled alcohol, they prompted her to take a breathalyzer, which she refused to do.[12]
Nasheed went on record publicly saying "Sometimes you have to break the law"[13]
Seems to be an exemplary member of American society who pulled herself up by her bootstraps and became a successfull business owner.
But there was a change. Not in the scenery or what she was subjected to, but in Jamilah herself. The turning point of her life, she says, was in finding Islam, and reading.
Jamilah began attending a mosque on Grand Boulevard during what would have been her high school years, and ended up studying the religion for two years before eventually converting.
“It had become a way of life for me,” she said.
Reading was another major part of Jamilah’s life as she slowly transitioned out of the gang life. She spent every day in a bookstore on the Delmar Loop called “Progressive Emporium.” In fact, she spent so much time reading that her Islam brothers encouraged her to open a bookstore, which she did.
Source (http://themissouritimes.com/3321/from-the-projects-to-the-capitol-part-two/)
bblhead672
09-15-2016, 10:02
Elected Democrats in St. Louis are some of the stupidest in the country.
I lived there for 20 years, I could never figure out exactly how stupid the people are who continued to stupidly vote in these stupid Democrats who did nothing to improve the people's lives who voted for them. Stupid is as stupid does.
bblhead672
09-15-2016, 10:06
Injured Texas high school football player stands for national anthem (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3790199/Injured-Texas-high-school-football-player-stands-national-anthem.html)
And then there's this kid.
Injured Texas high school football player stands for national anthem (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3790199/Injured-Texas-high-school-football-player-stands-national-anthem.html)
And then there's this kid.
#1 in the Woodrow Wilson school photo impresses the hell of of me! Peer pressure? Who me? :lifter
Divemaster
09-22-2016, 16:30
Veterans attending these games need to stand and render the hand salute during the national anthem. There are more of us there than they realize.
PedOncoDoc
09-22-2016, 16:37
Veterans attending these games need to stand and render the hand salute during the national anthem. There are more of us there than they realize.
And afterwards they can stand and render the one-finger salute to any of these boys who are feeling oppressed while getting paid millions to play games - if enough people join the momvent then they will give the television stations an extra hurdle to jump when televising games and trying to pan across the crowd. :D
What the NFL needs is for people to stop going to their games. They do this kind of stuff because they know people will keep watching anyway.
The Reaper
09-23-2016, 06:44
I haven't watched an NFL game since the Superbowl, and I am not missing it.
If they want to exercise their 1st Amendment rights, I can as well.
Sending letters to sponsors might not be a bad idea either.
I get the impression that their 1st Amendment concerns end right about at their bottom line.
If it costs therm money, they will change their tune.
TR
bblhead672
09-23-2016, 08:34
Sadly too many sheeple love the NFL/MLB/NBA regardless of how the players and owners behave and aren't willing to give it up for something so mundane (in their minds) as disrespect to the country. After all, you know, 1st Amendment, "merica, etc.
Sadly too many sheeple love the NFL/MLB/NBA regardless of how the players and owners behave and aren't willing to give it up for something so mundane (in their minds) as disrespect to the country. After all, you know, 1st Amendment, "merica, etc.
You can add the NCAA to that as well...look at the pressure they have recently applied to North Carolina. I would venture to say that college football fans are a conservative bunch; but they will continue to support CF in spite of the NCAA's support of "progressive" ideals. :(
If you scramble the letters from NCAA/NFL/MLB/NBA you can spell NAMBLA
...now I'm not suggesting that these over entitled fuck-wads like to kiss little boys, I'm just observing that statistically, some of them probably do.
bblhead672
09-23-2016, 09:53
If you scramble the letters from NCAA/NFL/MLB/NBA you can spell NAMBLA
...now I'm not suggesting that these over entitled fuck-wads like to kiss little boys, I'm just observing that statistically, some of them probably do.
Billy L-bach: your sarcasm and humor always makes me laugh.
Old Dog New Trick
09-23-2016, 10:32
One man's freedom of speech is not like another man's freedom of speech.
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Mariners' Steve Clevenger should be released for insensitive tweets about protesters
http://usat.ly/2d1NPxF
Mariners suspend Steve Clevenger after tweeting protesters should be treated 'like animals'
http://www.king5.com/sports/mlb/mariners/mariners-suspend-steve-clevenger-after-tweeting-protesters-should-be-treated-like-animals/324745355
(Via KING 5)
I guess he 'invoked' "animals and obama" in the same tweet.
Shame the NFL didn't treat Kapernicks or all the others on that bandwagon with the same level of NIMBY attention.
This nation is jacked up and in some serious trouble!
....
I didn't think it was possible for me to stop watching football after all these years, but after the last Superbowl I can do without it.
This nonsense that's happening now reinforces that belief.
Some people just take their life as an American citizen for granted.
I heard Burgess Owens, formerly with the Jets and Raiders, yesterday say that, if Kaepernick truly believes in his cause, he should kneel through the whole game.
Pat
One man's freedom of speech is not like another man's freedom of speech.
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Mariners' Steve Clevenger should be released for insensitive tweets about protesters
http://usat.ly/2d1NPxF
Mariners suspend Steve Clevenger after tweeting protesters should be treated 'like animals'
http://www.king5.com/sports/mlb/mariners/mariners-suspend-steve-clevenger-after-tweeting-protesters-should-be-treated-like-animals/324745355
(Via KING 5)
I guess he 'invoked' "animals and obama" in the same tweet.
Shame the NFL didn't treat Kapernicks or all the others on that bandwagon with the same level of NIMBY attention.
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"...
That being said:
The mariners are nine and a half games out of first place with just ten games left in the regular season. This guy is a second or third string catcher that makes close to league minimum while the starter makes 3.5 million per year.
...in context, the season is over for this guy already.
Also don't forget that we are talking about Seattle - one of the most liberal cities in the USA. Legal recreational use of the chronic, grunge as a lifestyle, a socialist city government and well...
for fuck sake it's Seattle - enough said.
If this second string catcher from Seattle had fed a Christian or a banker or a heterosexual cis-gendered plumber to the lions as a symbolic gesture for freedom of speech to shine the light on BLM-LGBT-HIJKLMNOP then Seattle would have already retired his Jersey number as the greatest Mariner of all times.
...but he didn't. He criticized the movement.
Instead, he now has plenty of time to plan for Halloween so he can go trick-or-treating with his kids...
...maybe he will get a hiLlary klinton pants-suit and dress up like an evil librarian from outerspace
NFL taking a hit in the ratings.
They mention Kaepernick in the article, but seem to be shifting blame towards splintering of media channels beyond television(which is true).
My friends and family in the US who follow NFL all seem to be much more low key on social media this season(although it's fairly early in the season).
I reckon the Kaepernick story is helping turn the comfortable community distraction of the NFL into a bitter pill.
Players thinking of future participation should really be aware of ad buyer concerns or they're in for an interesting surprise.
I like Aussie band AC/DC.
They've articulated that they have no political opinions. They are entertainers with blue collar roots. They work hard to entertain their audiences who worked hard for their money to attend concerts.
The last thing people want to do with their precious and limited money and free time is be involuntarily preached to.
NFL taking a hit in the ratings.
They mention Kaepernick in the article, but seem to be shifting blame towards splintering of media channels beyond television(which is true).
I'm glad to see it. I'm as much a supporter of women's health as the next guy but seeing a bunch of yoked up dudes bashing into each other on the line, wearing pink socks and gloves absolutely neutered any interest I had in the NFL.
I also hope that its the stupid political activism that is hurting them in the rankings.
"The NFL; fifteen thousand people who need to exercise watching 30 people who need a cheeseburger." - don't remember.
I suggest the problem is a lack of leadership, from the coaches, team owners and the NFL. They could have very simply ended this controversy by cutting anyone from the team that kneels during the anthem. They won’t, which I believe is a grave miscalculation.
They have bowed at the altar of political correctness, likely believing that was the smart financial decision. They are pandering to the social justice warriors (how many SJW’s actually watch football?), and taking their fan base for granted; A fan base that doesn’t watch NFL football to be preached to by overpaid man-boys.
I was an avid fan of Major League baseball, prior to the 1994-1995 baseball strike. I have not paid to see a game since and I no longer spend my valuable leisure time watching baseball on television.
Until the NFL, team owners and coaches put an end to players using our national anthem to express solidarity with the racist and Marxist Black Lives Matter movement, I will never watch an NFL game again. And yet, that still may not be enough to entice me to watch another NFL game. Ever.
Not a blip in declining NFL ratings but a clear trend lower:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/bell/2016/10/18/nfl-television-tv-ratings-down-election/92388304/
Not a blip in declining NFL ratings but a clear trend lower:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/bell/2016/10/18/nfl-television-tv-ratings-down-election/92388304/
I took a knee from watching the NFL this season - looks like others might have was well.
The Reaper
10-19-2016, 13:01
I took a knee from watching the NFL this season - looks like others might have was well.
Me too.
TR
bblhead672
10-19-2016, 13:14
IF the media, both "news" and "sports" would quit reporting on these little people's "protests" then the whole thing would just fade away. Instead, they all have to keep rubbing everyone's faces in it and are surprised when they discover people don't have to take tune it and take it.
Now the crap has spread all the way down into youth football.
Texas youth football team's season ends early after National Anthem protest (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/19/texas-youth-football-teams-season-ends-early-after-national-anthem-protest.html)
At least these kids learned a lesson - you can protest, but there may be consequences.
I had pretty much given up on the NFL before his antics, but once he did what he did...that reinforced my reasons for completely giving up on them.
Since then, I haven't missed a thing!
IF the media, both "news" and "sports" would quit reporting on these little people's "protests" then the whole thing would just fade away. Instead, they all have to keep rubbing everyone's faces in it and are surprised when they discover people don't have to take tune it and take it.
Now the crap has spread all the way down into youth football.
Texas youth football team's season ends early after National Anthem protest (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/19/texas-youth-football-teams-season-ends-early-after-national-anthem-protest.html)
At least these kids learned a lesson - you can protest, but there may be consequences.
Today's MSM is no longer truly a news outlet. It has become a form of entertainment that mimics news. Controversy fits their narrative so they spend the majority of their time on that rather than speaking about "true news."
What actor is cheating with what actress isn't news worthy, but that seems to be more important than the fact that our country is going down the drain.
bblhead672
10-19-2016, 13:27
Today's MSM is no longer truly a news outlet. It has become a form of entertainment that mimics news. Controversy fits their narrative so they spend the majority of their time on that rather than speaking about "true news."
What actor is cheating with what actress isn't news worthy, but that seems to be more important than the fact that our country is going down the drain.
MSM now stands for Main Sewer Media.
bandycpa
10-19-2016, 14:02
I took a knee from watching the NFL this season - looks like others might have was well.
I mentioned to Mrs B that we haven't watched a game all year, and haven't missed it at all. Being newlyweds, this was a mark in the plus column for me. Happy wife, happy life...
I believe people watch entertainment (and make no mistake, the NFL is solely entertainment) to get away from every day life. The second my television was inundated with who took a knee this week and why instead of how will the Dolphins make a QB out of Ryan Tannehill, I turned it off...no Sunday Countdown, no Fox Pregame, none of it.
When did our sports shows turn into news shows?
Once it was clear that taking a knee was free speech, but wearing shoes to memorialize 9/11 victims or a patch to memorialize fallen police officers couldn't be tolerated...
...well, since then I have retired from football.
I don't think I am going to get into the football hall of fame unless they create a record category for "least amount of fucks given by a fan: career".
...even then I don't think I would attend the induction ceremony.
If you were to stop by my house and look at the garden where I grow all of the fucks that I give about the NFL...
...you would notice that my garden is bare.
Fuck Colon Klumperdink and those cut from his cloth.
Fuck them right in the Colon.
Patriot007
10-19-2016, 14:36
Standing at attention for the anthem or pledge before a game was one of the two most important parts of the game along with the post game display of good sportsmanship. These are lessons and values that were instilled from the very first little league game. They were reminders that the game was a game and the game is small and inconsequential in the scheme of life and the stuff that really matters. Even those making millions need to remember this. This is not a "boycott" as much as it is a rejection of American values. Just as BLM is not a movement for the betterment of blacks as much as it is socialist propaganda and agenda.
I also have not watched a single NFL game this year and as long as this is tolerated have no interest.
Standing at attention for the anthem or pledge before a game was one of the two most important parts of the game along with the post game display of good sportsmanship. These are lessons and values that were instilled from the very first little league game. They were reminders that the game was a game and the game is small and inconsequential in the scheme of life and the stuff that really matters. Even those making millions need to remember this. This is not a "boycott" as much as it is a rejection of American values. Just as BLM is not a movement for the betterment of blacks as much as it is socialist propaganda and agenda.
I also have not watched a single NFL game this year and as long as this is tolerated have no interest.
I don't recall the national anthem being played, or the pledge being recited before my little league games. I also can't remember any of the ball fields having a flag pole. Who plays the anthem...Do they have little league bands?
Fuckstick is now wearing Black Panther shirts to press conferences.
Link (http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/10/23/13375930/colin-kaepernick-black-panther-party-tshirt-post-game-press-conference-49ers-bucs)
bandycpa
10-24-2016, 07:42
Fuckstick is now wearing Black Panther shirts to press conferences.
Link (http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/10/23/13375930/colin-kaepernick-black-panther-party-tshirt-post-game-press-conference-49ers-bucs)
And he can't seem to understand why the ratings would drop because of his protest.
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=17870290
And he can't seem to understand why the ratings would drop because of his protest.
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=17870290
I suspect that is not the only thing he doesn't understand.
Team Sergeant
10-24-2016, 12:34
Fuckstick is now wearing Black Panther shirts to press conferences.
Thug lives matter..............but only to other thugs and the left-wing media.
It's almost spooky(in a good way) how little NFL chatter I'm seeing on social media this season.
Whereas the kickoff to the NHL hockey season seems to be off to a boom.
Next year is 100 years for NHL, and the following year is 100 for Mr Stanley's Cup.
Slap Shot film scene(Hansen Brothers fight and pre-game National Anthem):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMi-j7W2gM
Specifically, 1:15-1:48 in the video, WARNING a bit of profanity if watched at work.
bblhead672
10-24-2016, 15:41
Fuckstick is now wearing Black Panther shirts to press conferences.
Link (http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/10/23/13375930/colin-kaepernick-black-panther-party-tshirt-post-game-press-conference-49ers-bucs)
Doesn't SPLC list the Black Panthers as a domestic terrorist organization? If so, it seems the NFL wouldn't want to promote that. Lol...as if the NFL gives a rats ass how I feel anymore.
Doesn't SPLC list the Black Panthers as a domestic terrorist organization? If so, it seems the NFL wouldn't want to promote that. Lol...as if the NFL gives a rats ass how I feel anymore.
I believe you're confusing the Black Panther Party (Kaepernick's shirt) with "New Black Panthers".
BTW....
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/26/fbi-dumps-southern-poverty-law-center/
Was this idiot adopted? Here he is with his parents.
http://www.subjectpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-28-at-2.51.11-PM.png
Streck-Fu
10-25-2016, 08:14
Was this idiot adopted? Here he is with his parents.
http://www.subjectpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-28-at-2.51.11-PM.png
Yes he was. Abandoned by his black father and his white mother too poor to provide for him, he was adopted by a somewhat well to do white couple. So it is natural for him rebel against all the whiteness in his life and grow an afro and protest the privilege that led to a career in the NFL.
Yes he was. Abandoned by his black father and his white mother too poor to provide for him, he was adopted by a somewhat well to do white couple. So it is natural for him rebel against all the whiteness in his life and grow an afro and protest the privilege that led to a career in the NFL.
I'll be darned. Poor dude. I guess I feel his pain :rolleyes:
bblhead672
10-25-2016, 12:26
Yes he was. Abandoned by his black father and his white mother too poor to provide for him, he was adopted by a somewhat well to do white couple. So it is natural for him rebel against all the whiteness in his life and grow an afro and protest the privilege that led to a career in the NFL.
I suspect that it is more about the tightness of his girlfriend's anatomy than anything else!
Colin,
I am happy you have returned home. Best of luck. I can't imagine you would want to return to the USA, the place that robbed you of your independence.
The former NFL quarterback, who no one wants to pick up this year for some reason, tweeted out his disgust for America on Independence Day.
Kaepernick: “How can we truly celebrate independence on a day that intentionally robbed our ancestors of theirs? To find my independence I went home.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/colin-kaepernick-travels-home-ghana-trash-us-independence-day-video/
Perhaps you could join up with the former President on his bash America foreign tour.
Former President Obama took an oblique swipe at his successor’s move during a Saturday speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he spent four years of his childhood.
“In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history about climate change, an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership can still give our children a fighting chance,” he said, according to the AP.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hawking-trump-paris-decision-push-earth-brink-article-1.3295853
Colin,
I am happy you have returned home.
He isn't "home" until he renounces his U.S. citizenship. Hope he does it so that we can be done with him.
Pat
Streck-Fu
07-05-2017, 10:51
Colin went "home" to Ghana and lamented America's slavery past but fails to acknowledge that Ghana was a main port for where Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans.
Maybe he meant he went home to slavery's 'Roots"......
rsdengler
07-05-2017, 11:01
Good, then it looks like we all are in agreement that Colin Kaepernick is indeed a total Ass Wipe...:munchin
Old Dog New Trick
07-05-2017, 13:20
I'm thinking that his adopted 'rich white parents' are real proud of him. I wonder what his birth mother and father think about what his choices in life are now.
Maybe he should team up with "Team Obama" and go on a worldwide discovery tour. Both have the 1% wealth category the other 99% dream of...but one will be bankrupt of money soon and the other will gladly bankrupt the coffers of those whom continue to support his wildly expensive vacations with other over the top 1%ers.
To all the other Americans and foreigners who fought for our Independence and gave all...I salute you. Thank you for you honor and sacrifice.
bblhead672
07-05-2017, 13:24
In sports news today, former NFL QB Colon Kapurdick alienated the remaining two teams who were considering signing him to their practice squads.
That idiot should study up on the history of the gold coast...
...went home to Ghana - that is fucking priceless.
bailaviborita
07-06-2017, 07:10
And to say the Paris agreement "gave our children a fighting chance" is ludicrous on multple levels. 1- the models predict it would not have made a difference, 2- it was mainly a transfer of wealth from rich to poor countries.
2- it was mainly a transfer of wealth from rich to poor countries.I know that feeling with the amount of taxes, we the working-class pay for the non-working class AKA welfare recipients.:mad:
BTW...Kaepernick is just plain ole stupid!
BTW...Kaepernick is just plain ole stupid!
As would be any for profit business (team) who would hire him.