NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, held a presser following second round of owners meetings where they addressed players protesting the National Anthem. Not surprising the NFL will not be changing their policy to require players to stand and respect the very symbols of the blanket of freedom that allows them to act like complete and total jerks.
In some pathetic attempt to save face Goodell stated they "We believe everyone should stand for the national anthem. We all take great pride in and it's also important for us to honor our flag and our country, and we think our fans expect us to do that and so that is something that we continue to focus on.." But they chose not to change policy thus allowing players to inject politics into the game where Goodell then told reporters, "What we're trying to do is stay out of politics. That's not, it's not, we're not, we're not looking to get into politics, what we're looking to do is continue to get people focused on football."
Exactly how are you going to have people focused on football when you have players making political statements on the field before the game even starts by showing outright disrespect to the country?
It is not the NFL's job to get involved with politics but they have, knee-deep. These players don't understand the problems going on as they're screaming racial injustice, social justice and calls for criminal justice reform they hear from radical Leftists on the MSM and in Hollywood. Many players have rap sheets who should be the last ones opening their mouths! This needs to stop, but clearly it won't from this billion dollar organization.
The commissioner and the owners want to keep things status quo, that's fine. The American people will punish this anti-American organization by continuing to boycott the games, advertisers and hopefully bankrupt the NFL!
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