UPDATE: Apparently this is not in the rule book, I’ll leave it up for someone to confirm who may know better than myself. It was a late night post and I was still pissed off about the days events, I took a shot and was wrong, sorry for the confusion.
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They have rules and refuse to follow them, but the league will fine you for an untucked shirt.
NFL Rule Book Regarding The National Anthem
The entire Pittsburgh Steelers team remained in the locker room during the national anthem, with the exception of one player: Army veteran Alejandro Villanueva, who plays offensive tackle for the Steelers.
While the rest of his teammates remained in the locker room, Villanueva stood in the tunnel holding his helmet in his left hand and holding his right hand over his heart as the anthem played. here…
Any questions??
Over the transom:
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I haven’t mentioned much about the NFL players acting like a bunch of immature spoiled brats because I didn’t think much of it, it’s happened before by an NBA player, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (born Chris Wayne Jackson on March 9, 1969).
Abdul-Rauf is perhaps best known for the controversy created when he refused to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games, stating that the flag was a symbol of oppression and that the United States had a long history of tyranny. He said that standing to the national anthem would, therefore, conflict with his Islamic beliefs. On March 12, 1996, the NBA suspended Abdul-Rauf for his refusal to stand, costing Abdul-Rauf $31,707 per missed game.
That was 1996 and nothing much came of it, fast forward to 2016 and the Kaepernick stunt. Kap is available as a free agent to play for any team that will have him, problem is, nobody wants him. This is a self inflicted wound, he didn’t only disrespect the flag, he wore socks depicting cops as pigs and wore a Che Guevara shirt for a press interview. Lovely fellow amiright?
I assumed this would all go away much like it did for Abdul-Rauf but I was wrong.
Here is a link to a list of NFL players who have followed the Kaepernick fiasco. Add to that list college and high school kids and now we hear an entire youth football team, led by their coach kneeling during the anthem. The coach should be fired, not for his beliefs, but for using his 8 year old players as pawns. He has the constitutional right to be a douche bag….the kids don’t know any better. 
Thanks to the perpetually oppressed and one Barack Obama this kind of thing isn’t going away, but there is a risk to all the activism. You’re pissing off whitey.
NFL ratings are down again this season and they can’t blame it on the election. The pundits are coming up with insane reasons for the free fall but they are missing the big picture, fans, particularity football fans don’t like being lectured on social justice issues while watching a game, they don’t like it while watching highlights, they don’t like it when ESPN’s hosts are liberal social justice warriors.
These players make millions of dollars to play a game, they are a very small group of individuals lucky enough and talented enough to do it, the majority of people who watch the games are white middle class who work hard for their money and take exception when a millionaire athlete turns his back on something they find sacred, their countries flag.
All I can say to theses pampered athletes, media, activists, and knucklehead pee wee football coaches…..keep it up….keep it up at your own peril. People are turning off the games because of these asinine protests and the NFL has to start paying back networks for failed viewership. Once the league starts losing money the owners start losing money, when the owners start losing money the players start losing money. The league and owners may need to think hard and fast about a player policy that shuts this shit down, the players have the right to do what they are doing, the owners have the right to let them know there are consequences.
Fans are tuning out and parents have their kids playing other sports. Between the concussion problems and activists using the league as a platform for whatever perceived injustice they can conjure up they are effectively killing the golden goose. It won’t be this year or next, but if the trend continues the NFL will end up just another sport that the only people who watch it are die hard fans watching a watered down sport that the majority of Americans really don’t care about.
Like I said….keep it up.
“Each act of illegal surveillance became more blatant. And when illegal surveillance couldn’t stop Trump’s victory, they had to double down on the illegal surveillance for a coup.
The more Obama spied on Trump, the more he had to keep doing it. This time it was bound to pay off.
Obama and his allies had violated the norms so often for their policy goals that they couldn’t afford to be replaced by anyone but one of their own. The more Obama relied on the imperial presidency of executive orders, the less he could afford to be replaced by anyone who would undo them. The more his staffers lied and broke the law on everything from the government shutdown to the Iran nuke sellout, the more desperately they needed to pull out all the stops to keep Trump out of office. And the more they did it, the more they couldn’t afford not to do it. Abuse of power locks you into the loop familiar to all dictators. You can’t stop riding the tiger. Once you start, you can’t afford to stop.” Keep reading……
I took great pleasure in watching Nan Pelosi getting bitched down by the very people she is trying to get amnesty for.
She can’t understand how they could turn on her because she is the Empress of the Evil Empire and she has their back (as Obama would say). The betrayal of the illegals must be a stunning set back for her but now she knows what the people she endorses are all about, they want it all and the want it now.
She doesn’t give a swamp rats ass about the Dreamers other than a probable democratic vote and lawn care.
It is was it is Nancy, best you stay in the royal chambers lest the alphabet crowd decides to beat the Botox out of you.
https://youtu.be/2MHs0Omk9OY
“ESPN isn’t guilty of creating someone as hateful and spiteful as Jemele Hill. That was likely the result of a combination of unfortunate factors that coalesced long before she ever arrived in Bristol. However, there are dozens, hundreds, even thousands of Jemele Hill’s who work in media. Yet, the one who tweeted explicit hate and slander to the president of the United States, did it while working at ESPN.
Why?
Because ESPN made it comfortable for her to do it. They did everything but log-in and send the tweet themselves, and that, is the direct fault of John Skipper and Disney CEO Bob Iger. Now, they’re trying to put the awful, toxic genie back in the bottle before he folds his arms, nods his head, and makes their network disappear.
And it’s too late for that.” Here…..
Why would she attack Trump? What’s her motivation? Oh…..
And apparently buddies with another activist.
“Hillary Clinton is a terrible person. Her politics are terrible. She’s a nasty creature whose hatred, entitlement and greed are in direct proportion to her mountainous avalanches of self-pity.
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What’s the point? Her political career is over. After the last election, there’s no way that even the Green Party or the Pedophile Cannibal Satanists of America would let her top their ticket.
And doesn’t kneecapping Bernie and Biden help Trump?
But Hillary doesn’t care. This isn’t about politics. It’s spite. And she would rather see Trump win another term than have Bernie in the White House. That’s who she is. That’s who she has always been.” Keep reading….
