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Your girl lost, get over it.

Its called the NATIONAL football league, so the cock sucking over paid performers can atleast show a little respect for the NATIONAL anthem and act like adults and stand up for it.

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You mean trump has now portrayed his political opponents as inherently anti-American thus positioning himself as the sole alternative to those who are pro-American?

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I have never seen a bigger bunch of grown men aka "real men that actually like full contact sports" act like a bunch of sniveling snowflakes.

"We don't want politics in our sports."

GTFO, politics is in everything!

If Trump announced a rally/speech during the Super Bowl halftime stage, the same "get politics out of sports" types here would be screaming MAGA

Even my biggest MAGA friends are bewildered why so many on social media (and here) are clutching their pearls/passing out on their fainting couches simply because of some easily ignorable nonsense.

"Oh my, we must boycott the NFL, this is just tooo much...giving me the vapors!"

And please, stop with the sanctimonious "I was OUTRAGED, I was in the stands and THREE people near me were sitting down during the anthem!  I'm a vet and that angers me!"

Excuse me? Have any of you actually hung out on a typical Marine Corps base when it's time for Colors? (and yes, I was an 03)

Half the unit is staying inside the entrances of buildings because they DON'T want to be caught outside/having to stand through it. Then you have the other groups outside that start to hear the beginning of colors and make a dead sprint to any nearby doorway so NOT to be caught outside. This isn't the shitbirds, this is EVERYONE.

This happened daily on many Marine infantry battalion bases I was stationed on or visited. I saw on Camp Horno, Mateo, Margarita/1st Recon, 29 Palms, Oki, etc..  And yes, this was 2005-2010, not some garrison peacetime. The only time you rarely saw it was on mainside or near 52/infantry school simply because you used to have terrorizing figures like SGT MAJ Vines patrolling.

I don't want to hear any recent vets become all sanctimonious because we all did our best to avoid it too. This is just the daily....not even the dreaded Friday medley.  

I still can't figure why there is so many threads about it. Why are you all so damn upset? If it bothers you so much, simply start watching the game at the kickoff? Do you avoid movies because the upcoming previews piss you off?

Who gives a shit what goes on before??? By being a bunch of "OMG, time to boycott" you sound like a bunch of triggered old ladies clutching their knitting balls. Fuck the non-football bullshit, I came to watch modern day gladiatiors trying to kill each other. If a bunch of players kneeling hurts your sensitive feelings, go watch figure skating or something. I seriously cannot believe this place and the level of butthurt.  

One last thing. Like I said earlier, my MAGA friends can't wrap their heads around why so many conservatives are literally pissing themselves over this situation (as you can see here with the 30 various threads that give up to the minute drama queen updates: "OMG Buffy, did you see that? The dolphins are now kneeling too. Better tell everyone ASAP!!" It's like you're all going out of your way to be offended just like your typical SJW pansy liberal.

My diehard MAGA friends can only assume that the usual culprits are fanning the flames: Hannity and Limbaugh. None of us watch Hannity or listen to Rush but by the amount of just pure rage/emotions over something so trivial, I can only assume Hannity/Rush are making this a BIG deal and really laying down the rhetoric (and I'm assuming they're doing the "Boycott NFL because of the thugs" since that seems to be the usual parroting/talking point here).

Everyone take a deep breath and chill out. Football is still awesome and this is the best sport in the US, hands down. We know this "protest" is just current flavor of the month and will be as relevant as Livestrong bracelets in the coming months. Meanwhile when you all realize you made a mountain out of a mole hill, you'll sit back and realize how much NFL you missed and really regret it.

This forum was the absolute last place I figured on seeing such pearl clutching over something so nonsensical. These "protestors" are like children acting up, the more you give them attention, the more they're going to push. If Trump could keep his mouth fucking shut we wouldn't have all the extra "now we need to double down!" needless drama this weekend. All he did was flame the flames and gives these kneeling fucks even MORE ammo,

In case we haven't forgot....

WOW, great idea huh? Let's stop focusing on nonsense, huh, Trump????

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKhUWesWkAEWvcU.jpg

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I have never seen a bigger bunch of grown men aka "real men that actually like full contact sports" act like a bunch of sniveling snowflakes.

"We don't want politics in our sports."

GTFO, politics is in everything!

If Trump announced a rally/speech during the Super Bowl halftime stage, the same "get politics out of sports" types here would be screaming MAGA

Even my biggest MAGA friends are bewildered why so many on social media (and here) are clutching their pearls/passing out on their fainting couches simply because of some easily ignorable nonsense.

"Oh my, we must boycott the NFL, this is just tooo much...giving me the vapors!"

And please, stop with the sanctimonious "I was OUTRAGED, I was in the stands and THREE people near me were sitting down during the anthem!  I'm a vet and that angers me!"

Excuse me? Have any of you actually hung out on a typical Marine Corps base when it's time for Colors? (and yes, I was an 03)

Half the unit is staying inside the entrances of buildings because they DON'T want to be caught outside/having to stand through it. Then you have the other groups outside that start to hear the beginning of colors and make a dead sprint to any nearby doorway so NOT to be caught outside. This isn't the shitbirds, this is EVERYONE.

This happened daily on many Marine infantry battalion bases I was stationed on or visited. I saw on Camp Horno, Mateo, Margarita/1st Recon, 29 Palms, Oki, etc..  And yes, this was 2005-2010, not some garrison peacetime. The only time you rarely saw it was on mainside or near 52/infantry school simply because you used to have terrorizing figures like SGT MAJ Vines patrolling.

I don't want to hear any recent vets become all sanctimonious because we all did our best to avoid it too. This is just the daily....not even the dreaded Friday medley.  

I still can't figure why there is so many threads about it. Why are you all so damn upset? If it bothers you so much, simply start watching the game at the kickoff? Do you avoid movies because the upcoming previews piss you off?

Who gives a shit what goes on before??? By being a bunch of "OMG, time to boycott" you sound like a bunch of triggered old ladies clutching their knitting balls. Fuck the non-football bullshit, I came to watch modern day gladiatiors trying to kill each other. If a bunch of players kneeling hurts your sensitive feelings, go watch figure skating or something. I seriously cannot believe this place and the level of butthurt.  

One last thing. Like I said earlier, my MAGA friends can't wrap their heads around why so many conservatives are literally pissing themselves over this situation (as you can see here with the 30 various threads that give up to the minute drama queen updates: "OMG Buffy, did you see that? The dolphins are now kneeling too. Better tell everyone ASAP!!" It's like you're all going out of your way to be offended just like your typical SJW pansy liberal.

My diehard MAGA friends can only assume that the usual culprits are fanning the flames: Hannity and Limbaugh. None of us watch Hannity or listen to Rush but by the amount of just pure rage/emotions over something so trivial, I can only assume Hannity/Rush are making this a BIG deal and really laying down the rhetoric (and I'm assuming they're doing the "Boycott NFL because of the thugs" since that seems to be the usual parroting/talking point here).

Everyone take a deep breath and chill out. Football is still awesome and this is the best sport in the US, hands down. We know this "protest" is just current flavor of the month and will be as relevant as Livestrong bracelets in the coming months. Meanwhile when you all realize you made a mountain out of a mole hill, you'll sit back and realize how much NFL you missed and really regret it.

This forum was the absolute last place I figured on seeing such pearl clutching over something so nonsensical. These "protestors" are like children acting up, the more you give them attention, the more they're going to push. If Trump could keep his mouth fucking shut we wouldn't have all the extra "now we need to double down!" needless drama this weekend. All he did was flame the flames and gives these kneeling fucks even MORE ammo,

In case we haven't forgot....

WOW, great idea huh? Let's stop focusing on nonsense, huh, Trump????

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKhUWesWkAEWvcU.jpg

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Or maybe we just see the NFL is full of shitheads who are anti American and we arent so addicted to a game that we sell out our country and beliefs.  /It's just a game get over it.

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As I've said before. The small minded fanatics on both sides scare me. A lot of people in here are no different than the hard line Clinton or Obama supporters. Just a different side of the same coin.

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Sounds like OP is the buttercup whinning about his football is being ruined.  As typical for a liberal, he complaining at the wrong people.

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But you are above it all.  the high minded moderate who cannot see difference between Antifa and the Tea Party.

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”-Some Roman faggot.

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I used my freedom of speech and burnt all my Cleveland Browns shit yesterday. Hell, they suck ass anyways.

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Nothing but net....

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OP's either 8 years old, a moron or a troll.

There are no other options.

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Yep. The goal is simply to protest the object of current protest is meaningless.

RACISM!

"Take down all the Confederate flags for healing"

RACISM!

"Take down all the Confederate monuments for healing"

RACISM!

"Take down Jefferson/Washington etc. for healing"

RACISM!

"Stop the Anthem!"

RACISM!

Ad infinitum.

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Binary thought in action. Maybe the extremists on both sides are idiots?

What liberty is being defended here and by whom?

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It is not just a game.

It is a business.

If a any business does anti-Amercican stuff, I avoid doing business with them as best I can. I do not support commie, or anti-American, or anti-gun businesses if I have a choice.

NFL teams are showing disrespect for the American Flag.
A flag and country people have sacrificed and died for.
Some of those people I know personally.
It is a protest based in lies.
They are protesting the killing of blacks by cops.
It is propaganda by the communist forces trying to divide and conquer  this country.
It is the follow on to HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT narrative that is nothing but a promoted lie.
The cops are shooting blacks because they commit crimes and then fight cops.

So the teams and players, and the main stream media doing that can go fuck themselves, and twice on Sunday.
I reject their bullshit narrative.
I reject their disgrace for our Flag, and our country.
I reject them, their business, and will not support their pay checks that give them the opportunity to disgrace the flag.
As far as I am concerned they can go fuck themselves.
I hope their business model and multi-million dollar employment fails.
A bunch of stupid, disrespecting, multi-million dollar, communist shit head useful idiots.
Fuck them.

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Poor analogy. The guys in the pic aren't intentionally making a protest statement about the country over an issue that doesn't exist. 

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And so many NFL players didn't suddenly join in this past weekend to say fuck the USA either. They joined in to say fuck Donald Trump and his call to fire people who disagree with him.

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And they are intentionally disrespecting the Flag and Anthem because they know it's divisive, and pride in ones country is not conducive to a global society. 2 birds,1stone. Globalist + victim/no personal responsibility. Nice to see it in the open though.

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The players were not even required to be on the field for the National Anthem until 2009. Coincidentally, that was the year the Pentagon started PAYING the NFL for their patriotic displays. Those players have every right to do what they are doing, (as much as I disagree) and the President calling them "Sons of Bitches" did not help. Trump brought this upon himself, and he's only exacerbating the problem.

How about we stop this jingoistic, faux patriotism and spend that Pentagon money on spare parts or something military related instead?

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The players were not even required to be on the field for the National Anthem until 2009. Coincidentally, that was the year the Pentagon started PAYING the NFL for their patriotic displays. Those players have every right to do what they are doing, (as much as I disagree) and the President calling them "Sons of Bitches" did not help. Trump brought this upon himself, and he's only exacerbating the problem.

How about we stop this jingoistic, faux patriotism and spend that Pentagon money on spare parts or something military related instead?

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You're saying an employer can't decide who works for them?

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I will admit, many of these replies busting my balls actually caught me off guard/got me laughing out loud.

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Well judging by op's experience BSA>USMC

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I think those out of power who hate Trump will do anything to get a rise out if their enemies. If they knew it would piss you off they'd burn stacks of vintage Transfomer robots. Trump chiming in lit the fuse.

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No, I'm not saying that.

But we will be in a world of hurt if we use that right foolishly.

I have the right to vote. But a vote for Hillary would have been foolish. Correct?

And would you rather have ignorant people vote or stay home on Election Day?

In the universe of possible options, not all are equally wise simply because all or equally available to me.

Trump absolutely screwed this up. And in the long run we'd be better off remaining intellectually honest and highlighting the left's intolerant hypocrisy for what it is rather than adopting their same tactics.

Freedom is scary. It means people that hate it get to use it against itself. But that's an inevitable risk. There is no way to have it and eliminate that risk at the same time. The left can't grasp that truth. Apparently, neither can the right.

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And Trump knows that picking a fight with the NFL over this will get the players to act out worse while also riling up Trump's base.

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"We don't want politics in our sports."