What about all those tweets from Russian funded actors? Oh wait, my bad, that's tomorrows news! Today it's Trump's tax cuts for the rich... My bad again, tax reforms for the middle class that will be the BIGGEST in history. The Bush tax cuts netted me $40 bucks a month. I guess $41 bucks would be bigger.

I know...I'm just a greedy lazy ungrateful liberal expecting something for nothing!

Tal I don't know who or where you work for . I do not have the freedom to say what I want; and to demonstrate on my bosses dime in his place of business ,unless he permits it . Go ahead and argue that in court . You'll lose every time That is the way it is . I can't believe you don't understand that . The Free Speech clause is very clear.

It has nothing to do with the private workplace.

WG . All I have to say about the players 'quitting ' is remember the strike of 1987 . It lasted about 2 weeks before it fell apart because the fans went to games played by scabs ;and the players realized they had more to lose with every paycheck they missed. When the owners start losing sponsor dollars you'll see how quickly they'll end this . I believe there is a correlation between these demonstrations during the Anthem ,and the drop in viewership the league has experienced in the last year + .

Tomder, why do we need professional sports anyway? Seems like a big waste of money. :D Who is REALLY getting rich?

I don't care who is getting rich. I know the athletes who make it to the top professional levels get paid very well .... much more than they would in almost every other profession .God bless them . Their career's are short and they make the ownership lots of money . Theirs is one of the few professions where they get paid close to their worth .There are very few of them that can make it to where they perform at such high levels . They are the elites in their sport ,and are the product that gets marketed . They deserve every dollar.

What I want as a consumer is a few hours so I can watch a game that I love ,and where I don't have to deal with the issues of the day .That is my biggest objection to this whole protest thing . If they don't get why many people object to them using the anthem and the flag as a prop for their protest then they are just as clueless as those who don't "get " what their protest is about .

A lot of us also want to watch a game in peace, but that wish doesn't override the players' right to protest an obvious gross miscarriage of justice by cops gunning down blacks because they're black. The latest event included the cop murderer actually stating his intention to kill the black man while in pursuit, and more than likely the cop planted the weapon which showed no DNA or prints from the murdered man but did show DNA from the cop.

The reason the judge brought a not guilty verdict was, "I do not believe a heroin dealer would be unarmed". Mull on that for a while and tell me you don't get why black players protested on the field.

Can the owners stop the protests? Sure. The players have no legal right to protest on the owner's dime, but just about everybody gets where they're coming from - except for Trump, of course. He maintains they disrespect the fallen soldiers and completely ignores the REAL issue.

But that's Trump - the guy who believes Obama wasn't born in the USA, who refused to rent to blacks in his NY real estate, and who would like to see a few thousand Puerto Ricans die from starvation and dehydration. Yeah, THAT Trump. The guy from New York City who has a lot of Puerto Ricans as friends and who loves Puerto Ricans. "They're great people, really great. Wonderful people. I love Puerto Ricans."

BLM and those ANTIFA domestic terrorists are Funded at least in part By Soros and his minions in crime numerous shadow entities he funnels his sedition projects through.

Athos... are you that clueless to think the White Majority didn't SEE for themselves that BLM IS a domestic Terrorist group as is ANTIFA... there is nothing legitimate, OR legal with what EITHER of those groups do.

Maybe the Canadians needed the Russians to bring this to their attention... we didn't. Its bloody OBVIOUS to everyone here.

Equating BLM with Antifa is par for the course for the truly clueless typical right wing loony. Even the Russian knew better but you believe everything they say anyway. That doesn't surprise me either.

I'll give them their perception of a grievance if they equally will realize and accept that I am offended by them using the Anthem and the flag as a prop in their protest . It is also misguided on their part to do it . No movement in this country that disrespects the flag is going to succeed .


I'll stipulate that herr Donald threw gas on the fire this weekend and made the protest a protest about his inane comments . Still if they are looking to win hearts and minds to their cause then they should find a better way to protest .

We need to take a breath away from the things that divide us every once in a while ,and football was until recently one of those things that united us in a single purpose . That is why Super Bowl Sunday has become almost a national holiday . We used to be able to do that with pop culture /movies etc also . But it has been a long time since I felt that I could watch a movie without feeling that we are being judged by the elites in Hollywierd . I resent that the fields of NFL stadiums are becoming ground zero for cultural differences . The only color that used to matter on the NFL fields was the color of the uniforms .

What do you suggest?

Breaking News

Reubs have found evidence that Russian operatives have taken both sides of the anthem protest issue for the purpose of making it a much bigger issue than it really is.

GOP senator: Russian trolls using NFL controversy to stir divisions in U.S. | World News

https://www.cnet.com/news/russian-li...anthem-debate/

Of course Dufus is in the middle of it and guess which side?

see last paragraph comment #10

I kind of get what you're saying, but it's not about and never been about the anthem, or the flag. At least acknowledge the frustration and desperation at not being heard, or listened to in a very life threatening situations that ALL young black guys see. Makes one not even believe in "All men are created equal", or "equal protection under the law".

How many protests and marches do you need before we get some action on those INNOCENT black guys murdered by the cops? I won't even conflate that lack of justice with black on black crime, or the murder rate of Chicago, a bi product of decades of economic deprivation. You may as well have built a wall on the south and southwest side.

Ever wonder why crime is so prevalent in poor neighborhoods? Not just in Chiraq, but every town in the world?

Excuse the soapbox. The game is delayed in Green Bay for lightning.

Really now... Both are clueless idiots.. both of whom are full of followers that are essentially unemployable.. who think they have a right to violence and looting... and BOTH participate in violence and looting anyplace they show up... birds of a feather by ANY definition.


Care to prove how that isn't accurate?

No I'll just wait for YOU to show the TRUTH of YOUR own statements. Not holding my breath though.

Tal - I have had smoothy blocked for months ever since he has consistently been unable to post anything with a semblance of logic to scottgems repeated challenges for smoothy to support his claims with FACTS.

Your perfect description of him as a "truly clueless typical right wing loony" was 100% on target. The right is riddled with the loony smoothys of this country who can do little more than sputter out meaningless well-worn phrases sacred to Trump and his cronies. We know now that they are part of the "low-information/low IQ" population segment and comprise the great majority of Trump's core supporters.

To engage them in debate is a useless exercise. Unlike Tomder who offers reasons for his positions although I may not agree with him (rarely do). Smoothy the Loony and his friends are a sad case and best left alone to stew in the poisonous juices they love to wallow in.

They DO realize that you are offended by their actions. That's sort of the point, isn't it? To draw attention to a terrible injustice by maybe pissing off people until those people finally examine why the players are protesting. To see how such a large segment of cops are out of control and how some of them (too many) routinely act as executioners. By a large segment, I include those "good" cops who know exactly who the bad ones are and keep silent. The "Blue Wall of Silence".

I come from a family of NYPD cops - grandfather, three uncles and cousins, from beat cop to Captain. I know police corruption has always existed but that is no excuse to ignore it. It is high time to expose the murderous behavior of cops for what it is - MURDER!


For what is a very mild disruption of the national anthem, I fail to see how that indicates disrespect for the military and/or American values. But that is what Trump wants his supporters to believe, and they go right along. It is a pathetic spin designed to prevent people from thinking about police behavior and African-Americans.

As far as the flag being desecrated as you mentioned, I have seen NO instance of that in the NFL. Yet you casually include it as though it were fact. That comes straight from the mind and mouth of Trump - made-up news.

Dufus, no doubt, sees an advantage to himself by playing ball with the Russians. He is in for a BIG surprise.

The Russians, apparently, are doing this all over the world in the industrialized countries. They seek to divide, then pick and support a side, then annex part of the country in question.

For those who don't believe it - See Ukraine where they did precisely that and wound up taking over the Crimea. This is WAY above Dufus' paygrade and as long as he sits in the White House, he puts America in jeopardy.

No it isn't Trump ho puts america in jeopardy, it is his transgender advisors who put america in jeopardy

You may have to explain that to me in terms my little bity brain can understand Clete.

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