re: Eric Reid takes a knee....on Veterans Day weekend

Rebel and RedTigerRulz


Did you "REID" that article you are referring to? It is from LAW & CRIME: Donald Trump and many like-minded Americans would much prefer that professional athletes “should not be allowed” to refuse to make patriotic gestures. The sincerity of those gestures, however, does not seem to be part of this debate – not even when they are paid for by the government itself.

NFL players chose to make a wordless statement, using the public stage available to them yesterday. The statement those players actually made conflicted directly with a fake statement of patriotism that the NFL received millions to have those same players make.

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The national anthem story you should actually be outraged over.

The American government pays the NFL to tell its players to stand during the national anthem. That’s right.For those of you whose heads are beginning to spin, let me lay this all out legally. The First Amendment prohibits any government entity from forcing an individual to say anything. That’s the basic concept of freedom of speech. In a related story, forcing people to salute a flag or swear an oath of loyalty to the government is pronounced, “tyranny.”

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Before 2009, football players standing for the national anthem wasn’t even a thing. The teams stayed in the locker room until after “and the hoooome of the braaaave,” and then ran onto the field. No one was offended, and no one was on cable news eliciting tears from disrespected military families.

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If the waste of taxpayer money isn’t gross enough, grab your barf bag as you learn about the motivation behind the expenditure. The DOD and the National Guard were marketing to sports fans. The concept was that if sports fans saw their favorite athletes standing for the Star Spangled Banner, or saluting the flag, they’d emulate that behavior and become more patriotic themselves.

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In 2015, Senator John McCain and the Senate Oversight Committee issued a statement and corresponding report condemning practice of “paid patriotism,” as charades, “conducted not out of a sense of patriotism, but rather done “for profit in the form of millions in taxpayer dollars going from the Department of Defense to wealthy pro sports franchises.”


These paid tributes included on-field color guard, enlistment and reenlistment ceremonies, performances of the national anthem, full-field flag details, ceremonial first pitches and puck drops. The National Guard paid teams for the “opportunity” to sponsor military appreciation nights and to recognize its birthday. It paid the Buffalo Bills to sponsor its Salute to the Service game.vi DOD even paid teams for the “opportunity” to perform surprise welcome home promotions for troops returning from deployments and to recognize wounded warriors.

Proud of Eric Reid. He’s a Tiger.

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SEC Grapevine

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I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

I commented on Powerman's post that he didn't see how the National Anthem was in anyway connected to the troops. I provided 3 examples.

My personal opinion is that it is up to the NFL as business whether or not to enforce a code of conduct during the presentation of colors.

But the customers of the NFL also have a right to voice their approval or disapproval of a policy or lack of policy.

We all have freedom of speech. But none of us have freedom of speech at the workplace. If you think you do, throw out some racial slurs in your HR department tomorrow and tell them, "It's cool. 1st amendment". See how that works out for you.

I personally don't care what Eric Reid does or doesn't do. I haven't watched a NFL game in years. But don't be disingenuous and act surprised that there has been such a great backlash over the way some of the players have chosen to protest.

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Imagine going to home depot and having all the staff pushing politics in your face while you're just trying to buy some herbicide. Then some tard online calls you insufferable because you no longer care to shop there...

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Lol, yeah, I'm sure you always used to tune in early to games to make sure you could pay close attention to the national anthem.

Kneeling during the anthem might be the least confrontational form of protest I've ever heard of.

I'm proud of Reid for being an excellent representative of our University. If anything, the only issue with this kneeling protest is that it's TOO easy to ignore.

I’m still trying to figure out how/why/when this became about the military anyway.

It’s actually the definition of pushing politics in someone’s face. It’s virtually the only way that someone in his position could push politics in someone’s face who doesn’t give a shite about him or his political views. No one is tuning in to hear about how oppressed the $20,000,000 a year athletes who go to college for free are

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t’s actually the definition of pushing politics in someone’s face.

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He's kneeling, you know he's kneeling, and you still tune in. It sounds like you want it in your face.

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He's kneeling, you know he's kneeling, and you still tune in. It sounds like you want it in your face.

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You know all he has to do is reply that he doesn't watch anymore and your point turns to shite, right?

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The Boy Scouts could probably present the colors but I don’t know about flying the jets.

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They very well could, but it's typically someone from one of the services, national guard, or ROTC.

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I thought they stopped doing flyovers anyway.

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They may have. I wouldn't waste that much fuel flying over 1/2 empty stadiums.