#national football league
A mockery was made of the national anthem all right.
But it wasn’t by the San Francisco 49ers.
Vice President Mike Pence turned the anthem into a prop Sunday, co-opting it for a stunt that served no other purpose than to sow division, further enrage the administration’s conservative base and try to cow NFL owners. That it likely deflected attention from yet more neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville was all the better.
Please, though, tell me again how it’s the players who are so disrespectful.
Pence was so incensed by the sight of several 49ers kneeling during the anthem at Lucas Oil Stadium that he left immediately afterward. Not so incensed that he wasn’t right there with a carefully crafted statement to let the world know of his outrage, however.
Some see kneeling during the national anthem as patriotic protest. Some see it as disrespect to flag and country. And some see it as something they don’t want to think about as they settle in to watch the football games they attend to forget the troubles of the world outside the stadium walls.
Thenational anthem was an NFL flashpoint for another Sunday, but at what seemed a lower temperature this time. The heat on display as the anthem played last Sunday came just two days after President Trump said NFL owners should fire the “son of a b—” who fail to stand when it’s playing.
Michael Bennett: “The country that we live in now, sometimes you get profiled for the color of your skin. It’s a tough situation for me."
In a heartfelt letter posted on Twitter on Wednesday, the Seattle Seahawks’ star defensive end revealed the details of a recent encounter with police in Las Vegas – just harrowing stuff – that is all-too-common for African-American males in America.
A police officer put a gun to Bennett’s head, according to the football player I have no reason not to believe, and threatened to blow “my (expletive) head off.” A second officer came over and “forcefully jammed his knee into my back,” Bennett wrote, “making it difficult for me to breathe.”
Well, that hurt. Seriously, we caused most of our own problems with all those penalties…
49ers - 23 Cowboys - 17
DAK ATTACK!!!
49ers - 23 Cowboys - 17
Anthony Brown (#30) with the INTERCEPTION!!!!
49ers - 23 Cowboys - 10
SNEAK PLAY! Alright Boys!
Current Mood:
(These penalties are killing me…)
49ers - 23 Cowboys - 7
COOP!!!!
49ers - 13 Cowboys - 7
Merry Christmas Cowboys Nation!
Like Aaiden Diggs, I too want to give thanks to all the quarterbacks that throw his dad the football.
Way to go Cowboys!
DAL - 27 NO - 17
TOUCHDOWN CARLOS WATKINS!
DALvsNO
Trevon Diggs with an interception!
DALvsNO
That Micah Parsons sack had me like:
58 YARD TOUCHDOWN!!!
