In a Slate interview, San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid said he’s been told the National Football League is planning to allow owners to shift money pledged to other charitable campaigns like breast cancer and Salute the Troops to the players’ seven-year, $89 million program to fund social justice causes. It’s a cowardly attempt by NFL owners to shut up ungrateful players.
Kneeling by NFL players during our national anthem, for reasons players still cannot articulate, continues. The result? NFL ratings are down and so is attendance. Sunday night’s NFL game attendance was down another 11% from the previous week.
Mostly Southerners and conservatives are upset about this disrespectful kneeling during our National Anthem. We Southern fans only feels it’s appropriate to kneel at a football game when our bourbon flasks fall out of our socks.
Kaepernick has gotten what he wanted out of starting this protest: dubious leftist-awards for himself. In speeches with more “I’s” than an Obama or Trump speech about someone else, he’s shown that he is shallow. Of course it’s every American’s right to speak freely, and mine to make fun of him or her when it’s stupid. – READ MORE
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