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stringer bell wrote: »http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/11/49ers-safety-disputes-nfls-ability-to-require-players-to-stand-for-anthem/49ers safety disputes whether NFL has ability to require players to stand for anthem
SANTA CLARA — 49ers safety Eric Reid believes any potential amendment to NFL rules that would require players to stand for the national anthem would have to be negotiated with the players association.
NFL owners are reportedly planning to discuss the issue at their scheduled fall meeting next week. At present, the league’s policy only encourages players to stand for the anthem.
“As far as I know, that would have to be something that’s collectively bargained,” Reid said Wednesday when asked about a potential vote by the owners. “I’m not sure if they can do that, but I guess we’ll find out soon.”
As first reported by ESPN on Tuesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a letter to all 32 teams saying in part that, “Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem. It is an important moment in our game. We want to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us.
“We also care deeply about our players and respect their opinions and concerns about critical social issues. The controversy over the Anthem is a barrier to having honest conversations and making real progress on the underlying issues. We need to move past this controversy, and we want to do that together with our players.”
Some NFL owners showed solidarity with players in one form or another the weekend of Sept. 24, two days after explosive comments by Trump, who used inflammatory language and said owners should fire players who do not stand for the anthem.
Reid said he’s had discussions with 49ers owner Jed York “and he’s expressed very clearly that that he wants to support us, that he’s not going to force us to do anything.
“Speaking for our team, that’s what he’s told me explicitly.”
Reid did not know if York had told other 49ers players the same thing. Pressure has escalated from the White House and President Donald Trump, who tweeted Wednesday “It is about time that Roger Goodell of the NFL is finally demanding that all players STAND for our great National Anthem-RESPECT OUR COUNTRY”
A league spokesman told NFL.com on Wednesday that it has no plans to mandate players stand for the national anthem, adding that “commentary this morning about the Commissioner’s position on the Anthem is not accurate. The NFL is doing the hard work of trying to move from protest to progress, working to bring people together.”
Reid has consistently said his and the actions of other NFL players’ are not meant to disrespect the anthem, the flag or the U.S. military, but feel that the message has been distorted.
“I was hoping that it wasn’t,” going to shift the tone of the conversation, Reid said, “but I guess, they said it was going to be a one week thing when they did it. I expected it.”
The emotionally charged issue has been brewing for more than a year when it was noticed that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down for the national anthem in a preseason game last August to raise awareness of police brutality and racial injustice.
The following week, Kaepernick was joined by Reid and Eli Harold as all three players took a knee during the anthem. Reid was deeply affected by the shooting death of Alton Sterling by police in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Before Sunday’s game against the Colts in Indianapolis, 23 players knelt on the 49ers sideline while all the Colts players stood and locked arms during the anthem. That prompted Vice President Mike Pence to quickly leave Sunday’s game, which Reid dismissed as a publicity stunt.
“I think we are reaching people, and there’s another handful of people who chose not to hear us. Those people, you can’t change their mind — they’ll never listen to you, you’ll never win with them,” Reid told this newspaper after the 49ers’ 26-23 overtime loss, in which he didn’t play because of a PCL injury.
“We just need to keep the conversation going. When an opportunity presents itself to elect somebody into office at the state and national level, then we have to take advantage of those opportunities and put people in place who are going to do what we need done to fix these issues.”
The week before the game against the Colts, the 49ers put forth a new demonstration in which 30 players knelt and others stood behind them with hands on the shoulders of those kneeling. The 49ers ownership has supported players’ rights to protest since last season.
No 49ers knelt during the national anthem of the first two exhibitions. But then Reid resumed kneeling and about 10 teammates stood around him in support before the more team-wide demonstration two weeks ago.
I believe Eric Reid is correct here, but the NFLPA has shown itself to be weak. They couldn't collectively bargain to amend the suspension rule to take the power out of Goddell's hands on any appeal, its doubtful that if a rule is changed the union will be able to stop the owners.
The question that needs to be asked here, is whether the players are willing to risk their livelihoods in order to prevent such a rule from being propagated? -
wasnt fritz one of the first black head coaches in the league
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stringer bell wrote: »
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Shannon sharpe has like 10 civil suits from bitchws n restraining orders Lmaol
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Lmao this wasn't even necessary. It's a gang of active military and vets that are on wax saying they support the kneeling. -
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You post a lotta fake news, ? -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBM1fagzZxI
https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-uses-presidential-weekly-address-to-go-after-nfl-players-again-for-not-respecting-our-flag/President Trump isn’t done criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. Now he’s taking his criticism to the Presidential Weekly Address.
The President talks about the history behind the American flag and says, “Every day millions of American citizens raise it, salute it, and honor it on the home front.”
And then he gets around to the protesting players:
“Before watching a football game, you want to see those players be proud of their country. Respect our country. Respect our flag. And respect our national anthem and we think they will. We certainly hope they will.” -
That ? reads like a ? .
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German soccer team kneels before match in solidarity with NFL protests
https://sports.yahoo.com/german-soccer-team-kneels-match-solidarity-nfl-protests-151641076.html?.tsrc=new_fauxdal -
All you had to was scroll up... i aint impressed if they are kneeling for the c0-opted reason
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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/oklahoma-cop-gets-social-media-counseling-slap-on-the-wrist-for-racist-facebook-threat-against-nfl-players/Oklahoma cop busted for racist Facebook threat against NFL players
A part-time police officer in Oklahoma will spared punishment and instead receive “social media counseling” after threatening protesting NFL players on Facebook.
According to News on 6, Verdigris police officer Brandon Jarvis launched a racist attack on professional football players who have protested anti-black police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem.
Writing on Facebook, Jarvis threatened, “Precisely why I don’t watch NFL bunch of f*ckin overpaid greasy headed moon crickets expecting everything for nothing!! It would make my day to b*tch slap the Jerry juice outta everyone of them’s hair!! F*ck em!! #sorrynotf*ckinsorry”
Alerted to the post, which Jarvis wrote when commenting on hockey players standing for the anthem, Police Chief Jack Shackleford said that the officer would not be suspended.
According to Shackleford, Jarvis will instead receive “some personal counseling by me in the use of social media.”
“If he is saying that his account was hacked, I don’t have any evidence to substantiate either claim,” Shackelford said in a statement.
“Good” part-time cops… -
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/stcharles/st-charles-vfw-post-disagrees-with-protests-stops-showing-nfl/article_d9830ebc-f1f2-5389-8cae-3f5151bc35cd.htmlUpset by anthem protests, St. Charles VFW post stops showing NFL games
ST. CHARLES • Amid the national debate over free speech and protests against alleged police brutality, a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in St. Charles has stopped showing National Football League games because members feel players are disrespecting the flag.
A news release issued by Post 2866's commander, Paul Schmidt, said NFL games won't be shown anymore in the post's Club Room until the league and its players "show proper respect to our flag."
Schmidt said all members attending a meeting Wednesday voted to turn off the NFL games.
Their decision is in reaction to football players on various levels, from pro to high school, protesting police behavior toward African-Americans by kneeling or remaining in the locker room as the national anthem plays.
The Club Room is the Post's bar and is open to the public. If people stop coming to the Club Room because there's no pro game to watch, it could cost the VFW Post $300 to $400 per week, Schmidt said.
But to post members, "it's not about money; it's standing up for what we believe in," Schmidt said. Just as players have a right to protest at any venue and for any purpose they choose, so, too, does the VFW post, he said.
"The flag represents the United States of America, and it has nothing to do with what's going on in their minds or how they think the police are unjustly shooting their people," he said.
"We got a lot of guys that came home with that flag draped on their coffins, so to us it's a disrespect."
Instead of taking the protest to a national stage as large as the one offered by NFL games, Schmidt wishes the protests would remain where, to him, they belong.
"Obviously they're entitled to their opinion and to protest but this is not the proper venue for them to do that," he said. "If they want to do like they do in St. Louis and hit the streets, that's great, we're all behind that, if they feel there's an injustice there." -
Hershel been Cooning for quite some time now, Did this ? say white lives matter too ? lol....Sad
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http://www.wbrz.com/news/sheriff-s-office-refuses-to-buy-ford-vehicles-due-to-nfl-protests/Sheriff's office refuses to buy Ford vehicles due to NFL protests
BOSSIER PARISH - A parish in North Louisiana says it refuses to buy any more Ford vehicles for its force because of ongoing protests in the National Football League.
The announcement came from Bossier Parish Sheriff Julian Whittington Wednesday afternoon in the form of an open letter addressed to the Ford Motor Company, which is a longtime sponsor of the NFL. The boycott is a direct response to players who have been protesting by kneeling during the national anthem before football games.
"The recent events surrounding the NFL, its players and their audacity to thumb their collective noses at the American flag, the American military as well as the obvious disdain for the profession of law enforcement in general forces me to take a stand," the statement read.
The statement goes on to recommend that other law enforcement agencies follow suit and refuse to buy Ford vehicles.
"NFL players have the right to protest as they deem necessary, but we, the Bossier Sheriff's Office and the taxpayers of Bossier Parish have a right to spend our money elsewhere."