@Frederick:
@cteavin:
@Fred, there was a case many years ago in which a policeman was refused a job because he was too smart. The reason is that police work is dull and will bore a sharp mind. He went to court and I believe won.
When you start talking about the abuses by the police – and there are many -- I would ask you then to rethink your stance on kneeling during the NFL. The protest started because Kaepernick wanted to draw attention to what the police have been doing to black people in the US. Trump changed the message to disrespecting the flag/vets.
In light of what you think about the police, what do you think of the kneeling protest AND Black Lives Matters in the context of a reaction to police abuse?
The subject of what is being protested is lost when the protesters are total assholes.. such as the BLM people.
I actually love police, all they need is worstershire sauce.
The NFL players are not "citizens" expressing themselves. They are wearing a uniform, being paid a fortune, and being presented to millions of people - many of them children - on live TV. Trump is right. You kneel.. and your fired. Simple as that. What's next? Players shooting a bird / giving the finger on live TV? Dropping their pants and taking a dump in the endzone? (one recently simulating urinating in the endzone - and you couldn't tell that it was simulated from a distance).
About 2 years ago, there was a revelation in New York in which the resumes of people with high IQs were being REJECTED.
In the case of Colon Coprolite, he should not have dropped to a knee to protest police, but his idea of having pig police socks was great! If I didn't live in Florida where it's too damned hot to wear socks, I would wear socks like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite
Lastly.. there is a silver lining to everything. Football is 99% hype.. and actually quite boring. Anybody that disagrees with this should try watching a game without the play-by-play or knowing which teams are playing. That could easily be done by watching a Canadian Football game. I wonder if the Arena Football players are doing this kneeling shit. This current NFL trend is like opening Pandora's box, and it can't end until the NFL ultimately makes a rule against it - they have to or it will never end. By having these ambiguous, random, nonsensical, offensive protests, the popularity of football is going down the toilet.. where it belongs. Sports like soccer, rugby, and hockey are superior to football. Football is a pussy sport with far too many stops in the action, far too many rules, and the players wear so much protection and padding that you can't see the human in the silly costume and a tank could run over them without harming them much.
So, in short, you're saying that when a player puts on the uniform they lose their individuality and become a representative of the team, is that correct? By extension, since people usually support a team because they identify with it, a protesting bended knee ends up representing the people who support that team.
That makes sense.
To that I would add that I turn on sport to escape from reality, not be immersed in it. There's more than one reason Hollywood's been losing big at the box office these past few years and now those reasons are spilling over into sports.