Penalties for Kneeling Being Considered

So, will fans in the bathroom or getting a Bud Lite and Nacho helmet be ejected from the stadium? Doing those things during the anthem seems disrespectful.

No? So it’s just bullshit optics.

 

The NFL ‘s broadcasting partners will show a phone number for the trump police so anyone watching at home or at a bar can turn in their neighbor for not showing proper respect during the broadcast of the anthem.

 

You're not wrong, but those are paying customers, not employees of the league or its teams.

 

So here we are two years later.

The #1 sports league in America is enforcing mandatory patriotism, because the President of the United States insists upon it.

Clearly these protests have been a failure.

 

The No.1 sports league also has a long history of allowing its core businesses to enforce "voluntary" prayers for its employees in the dressing areas prior to beginning work too.

 

You just haven't been properly inculcated.

 

That's because they're told it's important to be into that shit.

They are into that shit of their own accord like they're willingly into slurping a bottle of castor oil.

 

"Maybe you shouldn't be in the country."

 

I'm not sure why temporary, event driven, patriotism is better, and less offensive, than year round patriotism.

To me, it's more like buying flowers on Valentine's Day, but doing nothing else the rest of the year.

If you love your country, or your wife, you'll find ways to express that yer round.

 

You get flowers for your wife in your context as spouse. It makes sense. Showing affection for her is part of the normal process. It is human. But requiring football players to stand for the anthem is a non-sequitur. Patriotism is in no way relevant to their performance of playing football. It does not make them more effective tacklers. And the opponent is another team, not another country. The stakes are not freedom.
There is no reason to compel this because it is irrelevant to the job at hand.

 

Patriotism is so great we should make it mandatory.

 

My reply was on response to a post about requiring players to stand for the national anthem.