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(09-24-2017 11:09 AM)ivansirko Wrote:  ^ Steelers fans are some of the most hardcore in the country. I am curious how they will react short term. I know of a couple who wont ever go back to supporting their team and the NFL.

Not just PA. Steelers fans are the most widely distributed NFL fanbase in the country. There are Steelers fans and Steelers bars EVERYWHERE it seems.

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(09-23-2017 08:37 PM)911 Wrote:  Doc - It's going to help him in the battleground states of the Midwest and will also resonate with the base.

Actually I was referring to the NFL tv ratings. But yeah Trumps ratings will go up as a result of this.

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Speculating on the Most Valuable Kneeler...

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(09-24-2017 11:38 AM)IveBeenFramed Wrote:  

(09-24-2017 11:09 AM)ivansirko Wrote:  ^ Steelers fans are some of the most hardcore in the country. I am curious how they will react short term. I know of a couple who wont ever go back to supporting their team and the NFL.

Not just PA. Steelers fans are the most widely distributed NFL fanbase in the country. There are Steelers fans and Steelers bars EVERYWHERE it seems.

Yes pretty much seen in a lot of areas.

Steelers, Cowboys, and Packers probably fall under the category. And recently have seen a lot of Patriots fans outside of NE.

Any of those teams can end the gravy train quickly by being this stupid.

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I wonder how many leftist SJW will react, watch and boost this weekends ratings.

Never did like football. A bunch of guys tackling each other for a ball. Slapping their teammates butts incessantly. To each his own on their style of living.

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(09-24-2017 01:32 PM)Thedeadknight Wrote:  I wonder how many leftist SJW will react, watch and boost this weekends ratings.

Just as many SJWs as those watching the WNBA. None. There's no attention they can generate from watching TV.

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http://www.pennlive.com/steelers/index.s...ds_by.html

Quote:Left tackle Alejandro Villanueva, a West Point graduate who served three tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger, was the only Steelers player to emerge from the locker room for the national anthem on Sunday.

Villanueva stood in front of the tunnel with his hand over his heart.

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It's starting.

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(09-24-2017 11:09 AM)ivansirko Wrote:  ^ Steelers fans are some of the most hardcore in the country. I am curious how they will react short term. I know of a couple who wont ever go back to supporting their team and the NFL.

I've got a couple of FB friends that are hardcore Steelers fans, they belong to a local group, and always post stuff leading up to the game(s).

They've both been strangely quiet the last couple of days.

I'm waiting to see the (if any) response or criticism regarding the Steelers antics today.

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(09-24-2017 01:42 PM)ivansirko Wrote:  http://www.pennlive.com/steelers/index.s...ds_by.html

Quote:Left tackle Alejandro Villanueva, a West Point graduate who served three tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger, was the only Steelers player to emerge from the locker room for the national anthem on Sunday.

Villanueva stood in front of the tunnel with his hand over his heart.

Can you imagine the peer pressure on that guy - 50 odd team mates and all of them in the locker room bar him. He deserves huge props for heading out on his own to stand up for his flag.

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(09-24-2017 03:40 PM)zatara Wrote:  

(09-24-2017 01:42 PM)ivansirko Wrote:  http://www.pennlive.com/steelers/index.s...ds_by.html

Quote:Left tackle Alejandro Villanueva, a West Point graduate who served three tours in Afghanistan as an Army Ranger, was the only Steelers player to emerge from the locker room for the national anthem on Sunday.

Villanueva stood in front of the tunnel with his hand over his heart.

Can you imagine the peer pressure on that guy - 50 odd team mates and all of them in the locker room bar him. He deserves huge props for heading out on his own to stand up for his flag.

Old interview from 2014.




Gillette Stadium - fans started booing around 2:25.

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(09-24-2017 10:46 AM)Roosh Wrote:  

Quote:In the first NFL game since President Donald Trump made comments about players who kneel during the national anthem, members of both the Ravens and Jaguars took a knee while the “Star-Spangled Banner” was played ahead of their match-up in London.

Some players on both teams and Jaguars owner Shad Khan, who did not kneel, stood arm-in-arm as the “Star-Spangled Banner” and Britain’s national anthem, “God Save The Queen,” played.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/09/24...hem-kneel/

Are the players who stand arm in arm showing unity as American people or what is the significance?

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delete

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Perhaps, in truth, there's nothing to remain on the feet for.
It is a matter of perspective.
What a sideshow though. I feel no pity for the laissez-faire capitalist owners.
The NFL bubble must burst, as the tech and housing bubbles did.

Quote:Are the players who stand arm in arm showing unity as American people or what is the significance?

Standing means support for anthem I assume. (?)
Where's the 2017 guide to NFL symbolism.

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This is not going to go well in the long-run, which these SJW losers never can think about.

Maybe this week's ratings are slightly up, but ticket sales are going to drop next week, views are going to drop, etc., etc. No matter how ESPN tries to spin this, politics and football are not a good combination.

People turn on football to enjoy a distraction from the world of politics. They don't turn on football to have politics shoved in their face.

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NASCAR won't put up with this bullshit. . They will throw the drivers out if they protest.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/352164-...s-at-races

Regarding the NFL, I have it on good authority that Marcus Mariota is a homosexual. His "girlfriends" were and are staged.

Aloha!

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(09-24-2017 04:35 PM)Kona Wrote:  NASCAR won't put up with this bullshit. . They will throw the drivers out if they protest.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/352164-...s-at-races

Well, I guess I'm into NASCAR now.

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Kind of funny that those idiots stood for God Save the Queen seeing that it was the British who initiated the slave trade in America...

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The NFL is going to rue this day for a long, long time.

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Didn't all the Kneelers lose today ?

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Quote:Don’t stand for anthem? Richard Childress says get on the bus afterward

LOUDON, New Hampshire — While many NFL players kneeled during the “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games Sunday, NASCAR crews stood along pit road for the national anthem.

More attention has been paid to the issue since President Donald Trump said in a speech Friday that NFL owners should fire players who kneel during “The Star-Spangled Banner.’’

Several NFL players have not stood for the anthem before games to protest the treatment of blacks by police. Former quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the trend last year when he played with the San Francisco 49ers.

Car owner Richard Childress was asked before Sunday’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway what the policy was for his team if someone kneeled for the anthem.

“Get you a ride on a Greyhound bus when the national anthem is over,’’ Childress said on pit road. “Anybody that works for me should respect the country we live in. So many people gave their lives for it. This is America.’’

Richard Petty told USA Today: “Anybody that don’t stand up for (the anthem) ought to be out of the country. Period. If they don’t appreciate where they’re at … what got them where they’re at? The United States.”

Car owner Joe Gibbs said he didn’t talk about the issue with his team before the race.

“You’ve got an athletic event and that’s what we’re going to have,’’ Gibbs said.

Car owner Chip Ganassi said: “I like Mike Tomlin’s answer.’’

Tomlin is the coach of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers. All but one of his team’s players stayed off the field for the anthem before its game Sunday.

Tomlin told CBS Sports before the game: “We’re not going to play politics. We’re football players, we’re football coaches. We’re not participating in the anthem today. Not to be disrespectful to the anthem, to remove ourselves from the circumstance. People shouldn’t have to choose. If a guy wants to go about his normal business and participate in the anthem, he shouldn’t be forced to choose sides. If a guy feels the need to do something he shouldn’t be separated from his teammates who chooses not to. So we’re not participating today. That’s our decision.”

Last year, Austin Dillon talked about how the sport displays patriotism.

“I don’t know how it would go over with the fans – we’re a very patriotic sport,” Dillon said if someone in NASCAR would kneel during the anthem. “I think our sport does a good job of showing that every Saturday, Sunday of showing patriotism and what the flag means. Not only that, we have a lot of military out here each and every weekend.

“I’ve got SEAL guys that will personally text me and say, ‘Hey, thank you for not moving around (during the anthem). … It means a lot to them just to stand at attention.”

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Hopefully the NFL players will figure out that the people they are disrespecting by kneeling are the ones that buy their jerseys. The one that they be "reppin for" ironically steal their jerseys in the related riots.

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