Papageorgio
The Ultimate Winner
Which has nothing to do with the topic of why the players are kneeling.
Then, apparently, priorities are out of order. Respectfully.
Possibly, however one has nothing to do with the other. If you wish to kneel, you are absolutely free to do so. The rest of us have the right to react to your actions.
Actually one has very much to do with the other, and it's (again) telling that the poster removed that inconvenient part of the post hoping it would just go away. The missing quote says:
The NFL is caught in the middle of a bad sitution. Since 2005, the DOD has spent millions of taxpayer dollars patriotizing and militarizing sports in general. Not just football. Those millions of dollars in taxpayer money that are being spent by the DOD promoting militarism and patriotism in sports serves largely as a means of recruitment and to create the illusion of support on mainstream television for all of these useless wars and emperialist meddling which is destroying our economy.
This has plenty to do with how we got here. A decade ago there were no players out standing on the field. That was coerced. And yet nobody here was complaining that the players weren't out there.
The poster (Correll) removed that quote because he can't deal with the scandal of paid patriotism charades, which makes the whole thing FAKE. This was exposed two years ago in a Congressional investigation, and the NFL actually sent three-quarters of a million bucks back to the government of pimp money. Pimp money that by the way came out of your taxes.
I've been bringing this up for the entire run of this fake kerfuffle, and nobody wants to touch it or even admit that it exists. Because it means that what the kneeler-wags are supporting is pimped fake-patriotism charades.
And that takes us right to the root point --- somebody who stands for the national anthem should be doing so because they WANT to ---- not because they're coerced into it and not because the Pentagon pimps tax dollars into this fake parade shit that has all the authenticity of Astroturf.
They are out there now. That is what we see. That they weren’t out there a decade ago has no relevance for today.
Oh but it does, because it addresses the question of where it came from. A question in a slightly different form that I've been posing constantly here, a question that can't be answered because my version of the question is "what is its purpose in a football game?".
Obviously there's no answer to that question, so the next one that leads to is, "then why is it there?".
Absolutely it's always relevant to know how the present evolved from the past. Those who ignore their history, etc. Why would anyone intentionally choose to be ignorant if the answer is there for the taking?
If you see a turtle sitting on a fence post, do you not at least wonder how it got there?
The anthem has been at sporting events for a long long time, that the players were in the locker until recently is not relevant, that people choose to stand or kneel is the issue.
Ask the turtle.