Penalties for Kneeling Being Considered

[DMNHL]

"One was how the league will handle players kneeling during the national anthem going forward. An idea being floated in the room goes like this: It would be up to the home team on whether both teams come out of the locker room for the anthem, and, should teams come out, 15-yard penalties could be assessed for kneeling."

Thoughts?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

If both teams kneel, do penalties offset?

 

[Neutral Corner]

That would be a very neat solution. It would also make some heads explode once they figured it out.

 

[HanSenSE]

So the NFL is mulling joining the administration in its quest to run roughshod over the First Amendment?

Best solution is to just drop the anthem and start the game. Do you hear it at the start of a concert or play? Why are sports expected to be so patriotic?

 

[poindexter]

Just continue to blackball the kneeling players and the problem will take care of itself.

 

[Human_Paraquat]

How many yards would it be if the players actually flipped off the flag (instead of that being a figment of triggered right-wing snowflake imagination)?

 

[LongTimeListener]

So the NFL is mulling joining the administration in its quest to run roughshod over the First Amendment?

You don't know what the First Amendment is.

 

[HanSenSE]

You don't know what the First Amendment is.

It protects free speech and the press. Or did they really screw up in my fifth-grade civics class?

 

[LongTimeListener]

They really screwed it up, I guess.

Unless the NFL has become a government agency.

 

[BTExpress]

Do you hear it at the start of a concert or play?

Yes, at my city's symphony orchestra. Wife was refusing to stand years before Kaepernick made it fashionable.

 

[HanSenSE]

They really screwed it up, I guess.

Unless the NFL has become a government agency.

If there's a clause in the contract saying "thou shalt stand for the anthem," it's an issue, no? Oh, heck, not the first time I've been wrong here, if so.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Yes, at my city's symphony orchestra. Wife was refusing to stand years before Kaepernick made it fashionable.

Throw some Ukrainian peasants in the woodchipper, maybe?