Let us sports degenerates watch in peace. Goodell, Kaepernick, Bennett, Kraft, Trump.....everyone! Can't we sit down on our fat asses, in peace, with a cocktail and enjoy our Sundy's!

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Epic rant.

Won't happen.

Protests are just gonna be more widespread.

Wait until NBA season starts.

So I guess the end game is to make it so obnoxious, you drive off half the people that pay the bills in the sport that makes you a multimillionaire. does anyone win? (this is not political, this is about something unrelated to sports overshadowing the games)

I watch hockey thank god. Haven't watched even a minute of a NBA game in a decade or more.

I personally don't like the protests, but I 100% respect their right to protest.

Being forced to stand for a flag means we're North Korea.

I really don't want to be North Korea.

I believe the people swearing off watching the NFL don't really understand what these protests are about.

More room for others at the games, I guess!

Wish it would lead to a reduction in ticket prices

The NFL loses either way. Supporters of the protests who were not football fans to begin with are not going to support the players by watching and going to games. Current fans who are being turned off by the politics bleeding into the game will stop watching and attending as often, or completely. I don't think there are other "fans" to take their place anymore. I would have said there were 10 years ago. Not now.

I suppose it could eventually. But that will be awhile. Unless you're talking about the secondary market, because that could happen sooner. Much sooner. Like this week.

I think all of these people burning their Steeler gear.....will be out shopping for new Steeler gear within a matter of weeks.

That is, unless the Steelers continue to be a dumpster fire, then I might even buy a jersey just so I can burn it.

excellent perspective KC.

Not looking to take their rights away. They have the absolute right to do what they're doing. Those of us who have a problem with them are pretty much what Swiss said. They've chosen the wrong thing to protest. The flag and anthem they are protesting represents their very right to protest. It doesn't represent injustice, racism, bad cops, etc. Somehow Kaepernick and those who followed him believe our country is racist. It's not. Of course there is all that in this country and it is reprehensible, but the flag and country do not represent it.

The people who are protesting don't believe they are full partners in the United States of America. They don't believe the flag represents them.

Here was Kaepernick's original statement when he first kneeled. He explained his position saying: ‘I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.’

Whether we agree or don't agree, this is why these protests began.

This is where I'm at. Eyeing the Pats tickets in December. Wouldn't mind a 10-15% reduction in price.

Also hope this bumps me up that season ticket waiting list.

I'm guessing this gentleman doesn't agree with you:

They don't? So you can cherry pick what the flag stands for? So when the anthem was played in 1860 and we had 4 million slaves anthem the flag didn't stand for that?

It didn't stand for Jim Crow, segregation, lynchings, Japanese internment camps?

You can't have your cake and eat it. You need to deal with America's history good and bad. Yes, the flag represents all of that as does the anthem. The same anthem that has a 3rd stanza btw, maybe when you get time you should go check it out. It is revealing to say the least.

Yet, 9 years ago, this country elected the first black man into the office of the President. Black all across this nation jumped for joy, now they are oppressed. It just goes to show how the political winds change, particularly once the media hops aboard the run-away train. I wonder if these athletes truly understand how much they are being used!

Of course, Anerica's core wasn't racism but an ideal that was far from perfect (and is still not perfect today). But it was that idea that has freed millions from the bounds of flslavery and from poverty. It was that idea -- ironically perfected in the U.K. -- that largely ended the scourge of slavery. It is ahistorical to think of slavery as an American sin; instead, it was a global sin ended largely by the west. Thomas Sowell has written so much about this and really changes a lot of my views that were more inline with what has been suggested by some posters. Would really suggest reading Black Redneck and White Liberals.

The stupid, it burns!

Wish I could post a screen grab from Breitbart comment section on a Steelers article they have up. There are some submental gems. One comment is especially adult:

"Its [sic] the nigger football league. Fuck em all."

I'm not making this up.

Thomas Jefferson, Paris, November 13 1787

And the way to do that is to constantly revisit stuff from 1860? Since the past can't be changed all that can be done is do better in the future.

I realize if you don't recognize mistakes from your past you could be doomed to repeat them. But that isn't happening and wouldn't.

So what purpose does it serve to have people who were never slaves (or their parents, grandparents, and in many cases great grandparents) to talk about what our nation was over 150 years ago and get upset at people that were never slave owners (or their parents, grandparents, and in many cases great grandparents).

I'm only pointing this out because you have mentioned several times now what the anthem "represented when there were 4 million slaves".

In the words of a former Secretesry of State, at this point what difference does it make?

It was an ugly part of our history. But it's also an ugly part of just about EVERY countries history.

Blacks enslaved other blacks too. And it still goes on to this day when thugs roll through a village and kill the men, rape the women, and enslave the young boys as fighters.

That is happening today. Right now.

Slavery ended in this country 151 years ago. I have no issues with protesting injustice that is taking place today.

I don't see how it helps to bring up an ugly past that only further divides people on the basis of race when none of the people had anything to do with it or were victims of it.

You could put a picture of Black Lives Matter and Antifa members up as well. The image and message of the KKK is no different than the image and message of BLM and Antifa. There has always been hate and will always be hate I'm afraid to say, but for the last 30 years, tolerance has prevailed, until now.

Jefferson was a libertarian whack job. Makes Rand Paul look like a communist. Man he could turn a phrase, though. Thank god for Madison.

You just compared BLM to the KKK. Astonishing.

So MNF starts with everyone on the field locking arms in a "show of unity".

It's almost so good it makes everything over the weekend seem a little....orchestrated.

Unarmed Justine Ruszczyk was shot dead by police while Somali immigrant police officer is currently on paid leave.

Where was the outrage over this? Why wasn't the city set ablaze and business vandalized and looted?

Guarantee if Justine was a Somali immigrant and the officer was a white male that would have occurred.

For many, it's not the subject of protest that upsets people but the cherry picking and inconsistency in their outrage.

CK talks of oppression while wearing a Fidel Castro t-shirt.

There is very real and violent oppression occurring to this very day outside our country.

Out of sight out of mind though.