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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Super Bowl LII false flag terror alert: Security detail changed at last minute, numerous other red flags are cause for major concern!

A major Illuminati-backed deep state false flag plot may be underway and is possibly set to occur during Sunday night’s Super Bowl game


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (INTELLIHUB) — On Sunday, two American-themed football teams will faceoff inside U.S. Bank Stadium for the National Football League’s 52nd annual Super Bowl where over 60,000 fans will be in attendance for the Level-1 designated National Special Security Event just days after the Super Bowl Host Committee abruptly replaced EPG Security group with the globalist-controlled firm G4S, raising numerous red flags.


The New England Patriots are set to battle the Philadelphia Eagles under the roof in a much-anticipated showdown, as thousands of law enforcement personnel and G4S security guard the stadium and its entire 10-mile parameter.


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Tony Webster/Flickr

The abrupt change in security came last week after it was discovered that the Minneapolis-based firm was not conducting sufficient background checks on their employees.


When asked to comment, EPG issued the following statement: “We are not at liberty to comment on changing security strategies and assignments.”


EPG has since deleted a number of its social media pages but the Star Tribune managed to locate a cached version of an Instagram post which confirms that the company was, in fact, “hiring hundreds of protective agents for two major upcoming events in the Twin Cities: Red Bull Crashed Ice and Super Bowl Live.”


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Minnesota National Guard Soldiers are assisting the Minneapolis Police Department with security efforts for Super Bowl 52. The Soldiers will perform security operations at the request of the city of Minneapolis and the direction of the governor to ensure a safe and secure Super Bowl for residents and visitors. (Minnesota National Guard photo by Sgt. Luther Talks)

Additionally, the Star Tribune reports:



A G4S security guard, who asked not to be identified because he did not have permission to talk to the press, said the company sent staff from across the country, including Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, to work Super Bowl Live and that they have been on duty since last weekend.



The security guard’s testimony confirms the depth of the situation. However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s more — a lot more.


Former D.C. police chief, high school dropout, heads up Super Bowl security


It just so happens, the current NFL Security Chief Kathy Lanier was the former District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Chief from 2006-2016, during the Obama Administration.


The NFL security chief dropped out of school in the ninth grade and became a teenage mother at the age of 15 before joining D.C. Metropolitan Police Department in 1990 where she progressed through the ranks until she became the Commander at the Office of Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism in 2006.


According to a Tweet fired out by investigative reporter George Webb on Saturday, “Kathy Lanier, ex-DC Police Captain, head of NFL Security, [is] now employing new-Nazi (kinda) G4S for the Super Bowl, allowed an active subversive reprisal group in the Department.”


Take note of the New World Order-style symbolism that’s tattooed on the security officer’s right forearm. It’s a pyramid with the Eye of Providence.




Webb’s observation and the photo are concerning, to say the least.


Additionally, we can see subliminal propaganda being pushed on the NFL’s official Twitter feed which suggests that danger may lie ahead at tonight’s game.


In the Tweet posted Sunday, you can see Fletcher Cox #91 standing next to the Super Bowl LII logo which appears to form a combination of numbers ‘911–II,’ as in 9/11 part two!




Predictive programming, a forewarning to people in the know, or just a coincidence?


Again…




Wackenhut’s ties to the CIA


Spy Magazine reported in September of 1992 that Wackenhut (now G4S) is “the shadow CIA” and confirmed the company’s ties.


An excerpt from the report reads:



We have spoken to numerous experts, including current and former CIA agents and analysts, current and former agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and current and former Wackenhut executives and employees, all of whom have said that in the mid-197O’s, after the Senate Intelligence Committee’s revelations of the CIA’s covert and sometimes illegal overseas operations, the agency and Wackenhut grew very, very close.


Those revelations had forced the CIA to do a housecleaning, and it became CIA policy that certain kinds of activities would no longer officially be performed. But that didn’t always mean that the need or the desire to undertake such operations disappeared.


And that’s where Wackenhut came in.


Our sources confirm that Wackenhut has had a long-standing relationship with the CIA, and that it has deepened over the last decade or so. Bruce Berckmans, who was assigned to the CIA station in Mexico City, left the agency in January 1975 (putatively) to become a Wackenhut international-operations vice president.


Berckmans, who left Wackenhut in 1981, told SPY that he has seen a formal proposal George Wackenhut submitted to the CIA to allow the agency to use Wackenhut offices throughout the world as fronts for CIA activities.



As you can see, Wackenhut has a deep dark history.


Did FBI Director Christopher Wray really just put out some kind of cryptic message regarding the Super Bowl LII?


It just so happens that a note sent by FBI Director Christopher Wray, in regards to the current FISA memo fiasco, may have had some sort of cryptic message embedded into it.


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FBI Director Christopher Wray (FBI/Flickr)

“While Democrats and Republicans argue over the veracity and impact of the long-anticipated FISA memo, FBI Director Christopher Wray – who despite being appointed by President Trump opposed his push to have the memo released — sent a heartfelt note to the bureau’s rank and file employees, reassuring them that this, too, shall pass, and thanking them for their dedicated service,” Zero Hedge reported late last week.


The questionable line in Wray’s note reads: “Remember: keep calm and tackle hard.”


Could this be some sort of coded message relating to Sunday’s Super Bowl and, if so, what does it mean?


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Homeland Security Investigations Special Response Team provides security in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota during the week leading up to Super Bowl 52. This photo shows some of the SRT agents providing security around the Minneapolis Convention Center. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Flickr)

The rundown


To recap, so far, we have a freshly inserted NFL Security Chief who was the former D.C. police chief during the Obama Administration who just last week replaced a Minneapolis-based security firm with G4S (known to have ties to the CIA) amid the first ever Super Bowl to have two American-themed teams playing against each other.


Do you realize the magnitude of this? If a terror attack or staged false flag were to occur during Sunday’s game it would be devastating to America’s facade and would allow the deep state to retaliate against another boogyman enemy, like al-Queda, which would, in turn, ultimately allow the gears of war to turn yet once again.


Philidelphia Eagles owner’s Wikipedia page, death date, edited, changed to Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, despite the fact that he is still alive


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Philidelphia Eagles NFL team owner Jeffrey Lurie (Angie Six/Flickr)

Jeffrey Lurie is the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles and an actor and producer, as his IMDb and his Wikipedia state.


However, Lurie’s Wikipedia was recently altered to show that he died on Feb. 4, 2018, on Super Bowl Sunday.



Moreover, the New England Patriots coach Ernie Adams was listed as dying on 4 Feb. as well. The ominous edits were made on 29 Jan, as seen below.



Could such an edit suggest an impending terror attack or staged false flag during Sunday’s game?


The Sum of All Fears


In the 2002 Hollywood film Sum of All Fears starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman, “CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazis faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia’s newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.”


Remember this?




Sum of All Fears (2002) film trailer:



To top it all off, if that’s not enough, CNN is planning to cover Sunday’s game live for the first time ever in the agency’s broadcast history.


This is a major red flag people!


Potential bioterror threat


The following Minnesota Depart Ment of Health document was submitted by an Intellihub reader Sunday afternoon. (Please follow @BasedBasterd on Twitter)


https://twitter.com/BasedBasterd/status/960225666175262720


Former Intelligence analyst speaks about potential terror threat to Super Bowl LII


A former intelligence analyst, known only as Zach, talks about the threat on The Alex Jones Show.



Zach was taken in and questioned by the FBI just days after he called into The Alex Jones Show on Oct. 31, 2017, and confirmed Intellihub Founder and Editor-In-Chief Shepard Ambellas’ report which presented the theory that the 1 Oct. Las Vegas massacre was conducted via a helicopter air assault. Zach confirmed Ambellas’ analysis was “spot on.”


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Alex Jones in the studio with special guest Shepard Ambellas. Oct. 31, 2017. (Intellihub) Screenshot via The Alex Jones Channel/YouTube

During the broadcast, Zach also mentioned that the deep state-backed Saudi Arabian-based private military company ETS Risk Management was “on the ground” on the night of the shooting.



Related: What is CNN?


Let’s get this information out to everyone, just in case. There is still a chance to thwart the deep state’s plan.


Spead this far and wide people!


Hat tip: @Tabertronic on Twitter 


Related:


Hollywood film predicts 2017 Super Bowl LI was the last



Featured Image: Screenshot via Mirror.co.uk

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Shepard Ambellas is an opinion journalist, analyst, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Intellihub News & Politics (Intellihub.com). Shepard is also known for producing Shade: The Motion Picture (2013) and appearing on Travel Channel’s America Declassified (2013). Shepard is a regular contributor to Infowars. Shepard is the leading journalist covering the Las Vegas Massacre, logging over 800+ hours, 130+ reports, during his ongoing investigation. Read more from Shep’s World. Follow Shep on Facebook. Subscribe to Shep’s YouTube channel.


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NFL fan turnout so bad that Fox Sports is soliciting actors to play fans, fill seats at Sunday’s pre-game show

Warm bodies now getting paid to attend games, sit-in as ‘fans’


(INTELLIHUB) — It’s no big secret that NFL viewership and fan turnout at live games has diminished to all-time lows as teams struggle to sell even their lower-level tickets for as little as $3 and $4 after players decided to kneel during game numerous opening national anthems but no one would have ever thought it would come to the point to where fans have to be paid to fill stadium seats.


That’s right, you heard me, in the latest barrage of NFL shenanigans, Fox Sports has put out a casting call and is looking for Rams fans to attend Sunday’s pre-game in Los Angeles. The geniuses that took a knee to spite America have now created their own demise.


The solicitation posted on ProjectCasting.com reads:



Casting directors are now looking for NFL fans for Sunday, December 10th in Los Angeles, California.


Producers are seeking the following:



  • We’re looking for LA’s biggest NFL fans to be a part of #NFLSunday’s Los Angeles Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles Pre Game Show!

    Calling all LA Rams fans!



Maybe we should give all that NFL money the players have been getting for decades to Monster Energy Supercross riders, athletes who really risk life and limb to do what they do.


Just some food for thought. Please comment below and share.


H/T: @tabertronic on Twitter


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Shepard Ambellas is an opinion journalist, analyst, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Intellihub News & Politics (Intellihub.com). Shepard is also known for producing Shade: The Motion Picture (2013) and appearing on Travel Channel’s America Declassified (2013). Shepard is a regular contributor to Infowars. Read more from Shep’s World. Follow Shep on Facebook. Subscribe to Shep’s YouTube channel.


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Monday, December 18, 2017

ESPN President Quits Due To "Substance Addiction"

Amid plummeting ratings, mass job cuts, and constant #resistance, ESPN President John Skipper has finally called it quits from running the so-called sports channel.



Here is Skipper’s statement:


Today I have resigned from my duties as President of ESPN. I have had a wonderful career at the Walt Disney Company and am grateful for the many opportunities and friendships. I owe a debt to many, but most profoundly Michael Lynton, George Bodenheimer and Bob Iger.


 


I have struggled for many years with a substance addiction. I have decided that the most important thing I can do right now is to take care of my problem.


 


I have disclosed that decision to the company, and we mutually agreed that it was appropriate that I resign. I will always appreciate the human understanding and warmth that Bob displayed here and always.


 


I come to this public disclosure with embarrassment, trepidation and a feeling of having let others I care about down.


 


As I deal with this issue and what it means to me and my family, I ask for appropriate privacy and a little understanding.


 


To my colleagues at ESPN, it has been a privilege. I take great pride in your accomplishments and have complete confidence in your colective ability to continue ESPN"s success.



The 61-year-old Skipper joined ESPN in 1997 as senior vice president and general manager of ESPN The Magazine. He was promoted to his current job on January 1, 2012.


Here is what ESPN president John Skipper said in a recent memo to staffers:


"ESPN is about sports... It is not a political organization."



So will that agenda change now?










Vince McMahon Considers XFL Relaunch As NFL Fans Evaporate

WWE owner Vince McMahon is considering bringing back his ill-fated football league, the XFL, amid sagging NFL viewership and a racially charged kneeling epidemic of players who won"t stand for the National Anthem which began during the summer 2016 pre-season. In a recent "30 for 30" documentary about the XFL, McMahon and his partner in the 2001 endeavor - former NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol, pondered the possibility of relaunching the league once promoted as having fewer rules and rougher play than other leagues.



Vince McMahon


“I don’t know what it would be,” McMahon told Ebersol, adding “I don’t know if it’s gonna be another XFL or what it may be or how different I would make it. It seems like in some way it would tie in either with the NFL itself or the owners.”


Then, on Friday, journalist and pro wrestling fan Brad Shepard tweeted "EXCLUSIVE: Vince McMahon is looking to bring back the XFL and may announce it on January 25th, 2018." Then on Saturday, Shepard said that McMahon pointed to the "30 for 30" interview 




Without much else to go on, Deadspin"s David Bixenspan approached the WWE - which neither confirmed nor denied the rumor, but did state that McMahon is "personally funding a separate entity from WWE, Alpha Entertainment, to explore investment opportunities across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including professional football," followed by another tweet stating that WWE has filed for two new XFL trademarks this year.  




And while the NFL has recently instituted a concussion protocol to address the league"s growing brain injury epidemic, perhaps a rougher, more violent version of the NFL is exactly what America needs right now.



As Mike Florio of PFT writes, 








Arguably, the time may be right for the XFL or something like it. A November 2016 Sports Illustrated article regarding the current state of football in America created the distinct impression that fans want old-school football, with all the big hits and none of the obsessions over safety.


 


Those attitudes from fans coupled with the messages that invariably will be sent by the incoming Commander-in-Chief,” we wrote on November 16, 2016, “suggest that the time may be right for someone to roll the dice with $250 million or so in the hopes of launching a football league that would essentially operate like a modern-day XFL — loud, proud, violent, brutal, bloody, and everything that the NFL was before political, legal, and social sensitivities forced the league to change.”



Is Vince McMahon going to make football great again? 









Wednesday, December 13, 2017

NFL Network, ESPN Suspend Faulk, McNabb And 3 Other Stars After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Ever since sexual assault allegations first surfaced against Harvey Weinstein several weeks ago, barely a day has gone by that some high-profile media personality or politician didn"t get exposed for their truly sickening sexual deviancy. 


Now, it seems as if the latest allegations have struck the sports world with the NFL Network and ESPN having suspended five former football players, including Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk and former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, due to allegations in a court filing accusing them of repeated sexual harassment. Other ex-players named in the suit include Ike Taylor and Heath Evans, who along with Faulk were suspended by the NFL Network, as well as Eric Davis, who along with McNabb were suspended from ESPN.


Both the NFL Network and ESPN say they are investigating the allegations and that the NFL stars in question have been suspended with pay.


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According to CNN, the suit was filed in California superior court in Los Angeles by Jami Cantor, a former wardrobe stylist at the NFL Network, and listed the following complaints:








Faulk fondled Cantor"s breasts, invited her to his hotel room and pulled out his genitals in front of her and asked, "when are you going to get on this already?" He also is alleged to have pinned her to the wall and demanded oral sex while he pulled down his pants.


 


Ike Taylor allegedly sent Cantor inappropriate pictures of himself including a nude video of him masturbating in the shower.


 


Heath Evans allegedly sent Cantor nude pictures of himself on at least two separate occasions, told her "you"re making me horny," and that he "needed to get in you deep and hard."


 


Sapp allegedly gave Cantor sex toys as a Christmas gift three years in a row, and showed her nude photos of women he said he had slept with. She said when the network required her to work in the men"s bathroom preparing clothes, Sapp also allegedly came in and urinated in front of her.


 


Eric Davis is accused of sliding his hand between Cantor"s legs, grabbing her, rubbing up against her and making lewd comments to her. She alleges when she once slapped his hand away he aggressively told her never to push his hand away again.


 


Donovan McNabb is accused of sending inappropriate text messages.



Adding insult to injury, Cantor"s lawsuit also alleges that her complaints were dismissed by the NFL Network"s talent coordinator as she was told "It"s part of the job when you look the way you do."


Meanwhile, one non-athlete, former executive producer Eric Weinberger, was also named in Cantor"s suit and has since been suspended by his new employer The Ringer.








Weinberger is alleged to have also sent Cantor nude photos of himself and pressed his crotch against her shoulder, asking her to touch him He is also alleged to have touched her crotch, groped her breasts and to have reached down her pants to "check if she was wearing underwear."
Weinberger has been suspended.


 


"These are very serious and disturbing allegations that we were made aware of today. We are placing Eric on leave indefinitely until we have a better understanding of what transpired during his time at the NFL, and we will conduct our own internal investigation," the site said in a statement.



Of course, as we noted yesterday, CNN and WaPo are said to be working on 20-40 sexual misconduct stories at the moment...so the only question now is who will be exposed tomorrow?









Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Is The NFL"s Problem "Poor Product", Not "Disrespect"?

Authored by Doug French via The Mises Institute,



President Trump has lambasted the NFL more than 20 times for players’ “Total Disrespect of Our Great Country.”


Ratings are down for NFL games and Trump figures it’s because some players aren’t standing, hand over heart, and mouthing the words to the national anthem.


Trump may have made some political hay out of all this, but one only has to follow the money to learn the real reason pro football ratings are down - competition from college football.


The fact is, “Their product isn’t very good these days,” Nick Bogdanovich told the Las Vegas Sun. He is the chief oddsmaker for William Hill, which operates 107 sportsbooks in Nevada.


The league that used to claim any team could win on “any given Sunday” has turned into a predictable “If you have a quarterback, you have a chance. If you don’t, you don’t,” as Ben Volin wrote of the Boston Globe at the finish of last year’s regular season. As evidence, he pointed to “the four quarterbacks remaining in the playoffs — Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers, and Matt Ryan.”


Jimmy Vaccaro has been running sports books for four decades. He says, it used to be, “Nearly $4 on the NFL for every buck on a college game.” That is no longer the case. Now it is more like 60–40 with the college betting handle gaining.


Joe Drape writes of the sportsbook legend,


And when Vaccaro says he is becoming bearish on the betting health of professional football, you lean in and listen. Last month, for three consecutive weeks, for the first time that he can remember, betting on college football at South Point surpassed betting on the NFL, by as much as $400,000.



The Wall Street Journal did a study back in 2010 and found that of the 174 minutes of an NFL broadcast there was 11 minutes of game action. The WSJ found there was about 60 minutes of commercials and “As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps.”


This has only become worse with the advent of constantly replaying questionable calls. Meanwhile, many college teams have gone to the no-huddle offense to squeeze in more plays.


Making accurate point spreads on 16 pro games is much easier than getting 50 college games right.


“There’s more volatility and room for mistakes in the college game,” John Avello, a bookmaker at the Wynn Las Vegas, told the Sun. “You can find an edge there, and that is what gamblers do. We are hard to beat when it comes to the NFL.”



Professional gambler Chris Lawless wagers more on college games not only because there are flawed betting lines to take advantage of, but also because the games are more enjoyable.


“There are more momentum shifts and more exciting plays and more passion,” Lawless said.



Vaccaro believes betting on college football will continue to gain on NFL action. Overall, Nevada sports books are expected to post their eighth consecutive year of record handle, with Las Vegas taking in $5 billion in sports wagers.


September saw Nevada set a new betting handle record of $558.4 million, and the Nevada Gaming Control Board has now revealed that the handle in October came in at $522 million, the best-ever performance by Nevada sportsbooks in the month of October, as well as the third consecutive month of a betting handle in excess of $500 million.










Thursday, November 23, 2017

NFL Ratings Slump Worsens As ESPN Forced To Slash $80 Million In Salary Costs

As the NFL continues to try to address the ongoing civil war between Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Commissioner Roger Goodell, not to mention the intermittent hostile fire from the White House, viewers are increasingly deciding they"ve had enough and are abandoning professional football viewership altogether.  As the NY Post points out today, the embattled league saw ratings dip 6.3% in Week 11 meaning 1 million fewer people tuned in to see players take a knee during the national anthem versus last year.








The TV audience for NFL games steepened its slide in Week 11, losing 1 million viewers versus last year’s season-to-date average.


 


The 6.3 percent slump — worsening from comparable declines of 5.6 to 5.7 percent during the previous three weeks — plagued a week whose off-the-field drama made gridiron tackling seem almost tame by comparison.


 


After starting 11.8 percent behind last year’s TV audience for NFL games in Week 1, league viewership had either held its own or narrowed the gap through Week 8.


 


The 6.3 percent shortfall in Week 11 reflects an average viewership of 14.9 million for the NFL’s 68 national telecasts this year versus 15.9 million for the season-to-date in 2016.



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Meanwhile, the ratings dip, combined with massive subscriber losses (see: ESPN Lost 15,000 Subscribers A Day In October), has taken a huge toll on ESPN which Yahoo News reports will have to cut some $80 million in salary costs to offset their plunging top line. 








ESPN is poised to slash an estimated $80 million in salaries and other costs in coming weeks, sources tell Sporting News.


 


The third round of layoffs in two years at the Disney-owned sports network is expected to come down after Thanksgiving and before Christmas. Sporting News broke the news that ESPN planned to lay off up to 60 people in late November and early December. Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated followed up with a report that said 100 positions could be impacted.


 


ESPN lost a whopping $1 billion in affiliate revenue after dropping 13 million subscribers in just six years, according to the SportsBusiness Journal. Sports insiders agree ESPN overpaid for the NFL"s "Monday Night Football" ($1.9 billion annually) and the NBA ($1.4 billion a year). During 2016, ESPN"s prime-time viewership fell 19 percent, according to the SBJ. Rather than driving Disney"s profits, ESPN has been dragging them down, spooking Wall Street analysts.


 


Meanwhile, ESPN management threw money at many anchors, analysts and reporters whose contracts were up in recent years to stop them from jumping to FS1 and other competitors. Some lost those high-paid TV gigs this spring. But ESPN is still on the hook to pay their full salaries until they get a new job elsewhere. Not many have over the past six months. Given the length of some of these expensive deals, not many will in the future, according to Awful Announcing.


 


"ESPN is dealing with three simple math problems. They have fewer subscribers than they planned for. They have higher costs than they planned for. They lower ratings than they hoped for," said one source.



Perhaps it"s time for the NFL to admit that while most Americans can agree that professional football is really fun to watch, roughly half of them are going to disagree with whatever political stance its players decide to cram down their throats during games...so maybe best to just stick to football.









Monday, November 20, 2017

"Our Flag Is Very Special" - NFL Superstar Herschel Walker Blames NFL Commissioner For Crisis

Former NFL susperstar Herschel Walker - who aggressively praised America’s military heroes and first responders - slams NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for not quelling the national anthem protests.



NYPost"s John Aidan Byrne reports that the Heisman Trophy winner doesn’t beat around the bush:


“Guys, let me tell you this,” he said. 


 


“Our flag is very special, and black lives matter, but what we should do is go to Washington after the season and protest there instead. We have young men and women fighting for the flag. And we have to respect the White House.”



Walker - who used to play for President Trump’s short-lived USFL New Jersey Generals in the ’80s...



Was not done...


“I absolutely think the protests are so upsetting, and I blame the commissioner,” he said.


 


“I know people are going to be angry when I say it, but he should have stopped the protests at the very beginning.”



All of this comes after a week of turmoil between Goodell and the owners amid a continued slide in ratings.









"You"re So Dumb, You"re Beyond Hope" - ESPN Host Hits Out At Conservative Critics

Authored by Alex Thomas via SHTFplan.com,


Over the last few years the once dominant sports news outlet ESPN has come under fire for their perceived political bias after the network fired multiple employees for conservative viewpoints while propping up those that pushed the companies anti-Trump agenda.


From firing baseball icon Curt Schilling to allowing prime-time SportsCenter news anchor Jemele Hill to smear the president on Twitter, the network has an obvious liberal leaning and many conservatives have rightly called out this transparent bias.


Now, in a fiery interview with Sports Illustrated, one of the networks poster boys, Scott Van Pelt, has responded to his conservative critics by attacking them for even having the gall to question ESPN’s political bias in the first place.



Van Pelt attempted to act like a tough guy, calling out said critics for being cowards who he believes only speak out against ESPN on the internet but would never do so in real life.


“This make believe world where everyone talks shit, this shit talking, poke you in the chest virtual whatever it’s just there’s nothing more chicken shit than that, because it’s the easiest thing in the world to do,” Van Pelt laughably said before targeting those who have boycotted his network in the past.



In what one can only assume was a network approved attack on their critics, Van Pelt then described those that have boycotted ESPN as so dumb that they don’t even deserve to be prayed for.


If you truly wanna boycott the NFL and you wanna boycott ESPN, the notion that some guy sitting out there, or gal, and they decide, ‘you know what, I’m gonna cut my entire cable package because ESPN gave an award on a made-up show in July because there’s no sports, to a woman who used to be a man.


 


So I’m now not gonna have any cable TV at all and I’m gonna sit around at night and read books by candlelight like olden times because of that,’ that’s not happening.


 


And if you did that, than you’re so dumb that I can’t even pray for you because you’re beyond hope.



Yep, that is apparently what the networks most visible personality (and thus presumably the network as a whole) thinks about conservatives.


From Hollywood to the media, and now apparently the sports world, anyone with conservative viewpoints are being openly attacked and labeled racist as a means to silence all dissenting thought against the liberal world establishment.









Tuesday, October 10, 2017

NFL Caves: Owners Consider Rule Change Requiring Players To Stand For National Anthem

It appears that Trump is about to have the last laugh in his long-running spat with the NFL.


Moments ago, Dow Jones reported that NFL owners are considering a rule change that would require players to stand for national anthem.


A league spokesman said that the owners would discuss the potential change during a meeting next week, Dow Jones reported.


In recent seasons, primarily black professional football players have knelt during the national anthem to protest racial inequality in the United States. The protests started after former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last year began kneeling during the anthem to protest police mistreatment of black Americans.


As a reminder, earlier on Tuesday Trump tweeted that tax laws should be changed so that the NFL doesn"t get "massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country."



The Feud started in late September, when the president renewed discussion about the protests when he urged owners to "fire" the "son of a bitch" who kneels during the anthem.


And while we await more details, we wonder just how dramatic the NFL viewership - and ad revenue - collapse in the past few weeks must have been for the football league, which initially was so vocally against Trump, to make such an dramatic and unexpected U-turn.

Monday, October 9, 2017

ESPN's Jamele Hill Urges Fans To Boycott Anti-Kneeling NFL Advertisers

Having been reprimanded by her boss (and President Trump) for her previous divisive remarks, ESPN"s Jamele Hill called on football fans to boycott advertisers who are aligned with teams pushing back against "kneeling".



As a reminder, after her last outburst, here is what ESPN president John Skipper said in a memo to staffers:





"ESPN is about sports... It is not a political organization."



So much for that...



As Fox News reports, the ESPN anchor who called President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter last month is now calling for a boycott of advertisers aligned with "America"s Team."



Jemele Hill, host of "SC6," called on fans to take indirect action against the Dallas Cowboys after owner Jerry Jones told players they would be benched if they didn"t stand up during the national anthem.





Hill, an outspoken liberal, tweeted that Jones “has created a problem for his players, specifically the black ones… If they don"t kneel, some will see them as sellouts.”



The ESPN host wrote, “By drawing a line in the sand, Jerry put his players under more scrutiny and threw them under the bus... If the rationale behind JJ"s stance is keeping the fanbase happy, make him see that he is underestimated how all of his fanbase feels.”



She urged “paying customers” to “boycott his advertisers” if they don’t agree with Jones’ comments.



Hill quoted a list of Cowboys’ advertisers in one of her tweets, which included AT&T, Bank of America, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Ford Motors, MillerCoors and Pepsi, and sent a message to her 760,000-plus Twitter followers.



“Change happens when advertisers are impacted,” Hill wrote. “If you strongly reject what Jerry Jones said, the key is his advertisers.”



However, as Daily Caller’s David Hookstead wrote...





“The NFL is the biggest crutch keeping ESPN alive. If the NFL cuts ties, which would be reasonable if the network’s employees start calling for a boycott, ESPN would be in massive trouble."



“Not sure how happy ESPN management will be with an employee telling NFL fans to boycott NFL related sponsors, given the fact that ESPN needs the NFL to stay alive.”



Let"s see John Skip[per squirm out of this one.

Sunday, October 8, 2017

The NFL Is Now The Least Popular Professional Sports League In America

While mainstream media outlets like the New York Times have continued to assert that the dip in NFL ratings that began last season is in no way connected to the controversy surrounding players kneeling during the National Anthem, yet another poll has reaffirmed what many football fans have suspected for weeks: The protests have transformed the NFL into the least popular professional sports league in America.


From the end of August to the end of September, the favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57% to 44%, and it has the highest unfavorable rating – 40 percent – of any big sport, according to the Winston Group survey provided exclusively to Secrets.



Worse for football, which was already seeing lower TV ratings and empty stadium seats, the month of protests and calls from President Trump for fans to boycott the league or “walk out” of games if they see players taking a knee has apparently turned off men aged 34-54 – one of the league’s most important demographics and a troubling sign that the league isn’t in touch with its fans. The Winston Poll from the Washington-based Winston Group found that the attitude of those fans went from an August rating of 73 percent favorable and 19 percent unfavorable to 42 percent favorable and 47 percent unfavorable, a remarkable turn against the sport.


According to analysis of the poll cited by the Washington Examiner, the "more critically for the NFL, the fall off in favorables occurred among important audiences. Among males, NFL favorables fell 23 percent, going from 68 percent to 45 percent. In looking at a more specific audience, males 34-54, NFL favorables fell 31 percent, going from 73 percent to 42 percent. Among this group the NFL has a surprising negative image, as it went from +54 percent in August to -5 percent in September."


The Winston Poll was of brand images for the NFL, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and college football and basketball. It was of 1,000 registered voters and taken August 29-30 and then again Sept. 28 to Sept. 29.


September Winston Poll


  • MLB/63 percent favorable to 16 percent unfavorable.

  • College football/51 percent favorable to 21 percent unfavorable.

  • NBA/46 percent favorable to 28 percent unfavorable.

  • College basketball/45 percent favorable to 25 percent unfavorable.

  • NFL/44 percent favorable to 40 percent unfavorable

And for anybody who believes the controversy is confined to a red state vs. blue state issue, data shows that NFL is equally well-liked among Republicans and Democrats – suggesting that both liberals and conservatives are outraged over what Trump characterized as "disrespecting our heritage."



The survey isn’t the first to document this phenomenon: A J.D. Power survey showed that NFL fans did in fact tune out in droves because of the disrespect and protest of the National Anthem before games.


The pollster said it asked more than 9,200 people who attended either one football, basketball or hockey game whether they tuned into fewer games and why. Twenty-six percent of those who watched fewer games last season said they were put off by the anthem protests.

Thursday, October 5, 2017

"Don't Ask Me To Pray For Victims" - Harvard Professor Calls NRA A "Domestic Terrorist Organization"

Authored by Emily Hall via CampusReform.org,


A Harvard University professor called the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization” Tuesday morning, adding that “Congress must act” on gun control.






“We have to have the courage to call the NRA exactly what it has become - a domestic terrorist organization that places profit above the lives of the American people,” Dr. Jonathan Walton declared during Morning Prayers, according to a blog post by The Memorial Church at Harvard.



Anticipating that “gun rights defenders will accuse me of politicizing this tragedy,” he proceeds to substantiate the accusation, speculating that mass murder “is what the NRA, weapons makers, and all who financially profit from this country"s pain desire” because “weapons sales increase and gun stocks rise following each mass shooting.”






“This nation is sick. Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries are eating away at the soul of this nation,” Walton said later in the sermon.



“It even caused us to elect a madman to the presidency that embodies the worst aspects of our country’s cultural disease.”



He then decried the fact that Congress has not enacted further gun control measures, proclaiming that “if Congress is unwilling to act, then this nation should just own [its] sick and twisted reality,” rather than continuing to publicly mourn the victims.





“Mass shootings will just become a part of the quotidian fabric of American life - a sad, but an unsurprising event,” he continued.



“Thus, don’t ask me to pray. Don’t ask me to hold a vigil for victims. Nor will I light any more candles.”



Walton is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church, as well as a tenured Harvard Divinity School Professor of Religion and Society.


He was arrested in September, along with a group of other professors, for protesting President Trump’s decision to repeal DACA by blocking the flow of traffic through Harvard Square.


The “Morning Prayers” page on the Memorial Church’s website notes that “a daily service of Morning Prayers has been kept at Harvard since its founding in 1636. Held Monday through Friday during term, the service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address given by a member or friend of the University.”


Campus Reform reached out to Walton for elaboration on his remarks, but did not receive a response in time for publication.


And then Nancy Sinatra piped in helpfully...


Tuesday, October 3, 2017

NFL Players Have A First Amendment Right To Act Like Little Bitches

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Frankly, in my view, the sporting world should be a politics free zone, and the fact that I am compelled to write about politics in sports in America today is bewildering beyond belief. That said, to be clear, I am not a fan of the NFL. I think the sport, like most professional sports, is overrun with whiny, juiced-up morons paid millions of dollars for providing nothing to the public except sub-par entertainment and little-to-no loyalty to the state or city in which they happen to be employed. NFL players are not legitimate role models for society anymore that costumed television wrestlers are role models for society.


Add to this the rampant politicization of the NFL over the past several years with social justice undertones and overtones, and I can’t think of a single redeeming quality to the arena. The best thing that could possibly happen to U.S. athletics would be if the entire system was scrapped and rebuilt from the ashes with truly local teams composed of local players driven purely by the desire for athletic excellence and healthy competition.


To me, it seems the appeal of sports, at least for spectators, is the possibility that anything could happen according to the merit of the players and the teams. In a society in which so much is restricted and controlled and dictated by political correctness and appeals to artificial “fairness,” the idea that, at least on a football field, baseball diamond or hockey rink, all of that garbage goes out the window for a few hours is enticing to say the least. Spontaneous moments of greatness are what people want to see, not blithe displays of ideological ignorance.



There is no social justice in real sports. There is no affirmative action. There are no safe spaces. The best men or women rise to the top and the losers go home with nothing. That is the way it should be. Champions soar to the heights as easily as they fall to the depths, and underdogs can shock the world through sheer determination. You cannot lie or steal your way to athletic superiority. You cannot use victim-group status to win trophies and medals. You have to work hard. You have to earn it. If you are a fraud you will be found out eventually. This is a philosophy which has been lost in modern athletics. Leftists in our culture are also oblivious to the notion.


When I see one of the last fields of American heritage and meritocracy being destroyed by cultural Marxism, I do feel what I’m sure many people feel — enraged. However, the situation is more complex than surface conflicts suggest.


NFL players refusing to stand for the national anthem is not really the issue here. Donald Trump admonishing them for their actions is also not the issue here. It is the motivations behind both sides that concerns me.


For activist NFL players and owners the motivation is rather clear; social justice cultism has seeped into their profession and some of them have decided to use the platform they have been given to pontificate rather than play the game they are paid to play. Protests attacking non-existent racism and “patriarchy” against a system that has made these men multi-millionaire celebrities regardless of their skin color would be relegated to the idiocy of college campuses if any of these people had any sense of judgment.


For Donald Trump, the motivation is far more foggy. I would prefer if the president of the United States spent his energies on fulfilling his campaign promise of “draining the swamp” of banking elites and neo-con warmongers instead of loading his cabinet with them and spouting off on Twitter about forcing a few football players to stand for a national anthem that praises the freedom of rebellion.


My readers are well aware that I view Trump as a pied piper, leading conservatives down a path back to neo-con totalitarianism rather than towards libertarian virtues of individual sovereignty. In other words, I am not seeing much difference between Trump and Obama so far. Perhaps in rhetoric, but certainly not in action.


The circus surrounding Trump’s latest feud with the NFL is just another distraction away from the fact that this administration is following a very similar policy path to every other corrupt administration before it. And conservatives are so tired of the trespasses of the social justice cult, many of them are eating up every minute of the farce.  Though, this is not what a bunch of football players are concerned about.


Let’s summarize the actual problem…


If NFL players refused to stand for the national anthem because they believed in the ideals it represents but felt that our government no longer represented those ideals, then I would be in full support of their motives. Obviously, this is not why they are protesting. If their motivation was about speaking against corrupt government, then they would have refused to stand for the anthem back when Barack Obama, a Constitution-wrecking cabana boy for the elites, was in office.


If Trump’s attacks on the NFL were motivated by a love of liberty as the anthem inspires, then he would not demand that players be forced to stand, which is indeed a violation of their First Amendment rights. Instead, he would have dropped that concept completely and stuck with the rational side of his position, which was for spectators to vote with their wallets and stop supporting the league with their dollars.


The bottom line is, whether or not you or I support their motives, constitutionally, legal precedence is on the side of the players. They have every right to act like bitches on an SJW plantation, kneeling and virtue signaling to their heart’s content. And, the public has every right to stop watching the NFL, drop their ESPN subscriptions, throw their overpriced sports jerseys in the trash and move on to more important issues… like what the hell is all this nonsense with North Korea? And why do we keep hearing about economic recovery when the average American can’t make it from month-to-month without running up their credit cards? And why are so many of us so damn fat and unhealthy?


Hell, here’s an idea — how about more people stop watching sports and start playing sports instead? Why not simply let the NFL die out along with every other venture poisoned by social justice?


The point is, the NFL battle with Trump is irrelevant compared to the greater battle of ideals behind it. It is not for Trump to fight this battle; it is for the spectators and consumers to fight this battle. The solution is not Trump’s Twitter account or his interference. The solution is for Americans to walk away and take their money with them.


The solution is also not to attempt legislation or government force to strike fear into those who might disagree with us. I have seen far too many so-called “liberty minded” people repeat the fanatically stupid mantra of “stomp my flag and I’ll stomp your ass!” The great sacrifice of living in a free country is that you have to support the individual rights of EVERYONE, even people who don’t believe in individual rights.


Some might argue that this is not a path that is being pursued so we should not be concerned. I say the social undercurrent today is ripe for zealotry on both sides, and conservatives need to take the high road even if it means things will be more difficult for us in the short term.


Finally, to the players that have so far jumped on the Colin Kaepernick bandwagon; understand that you have delusions of grandeur. You are NOT Jesse Owens proving your worth in the face of Hitler’s Aryan dystopia. You are not important or effective activists in the grand scheme of things because your political and philosophical views are ill informed and generally incompetent. In fact, your views work in FAVOR of the corrupt system, not against it.


While you do have the right to sit during the national anthem, knowing why you are sitting is more important than the action itself. If you are sitting because you have bought into a cultural Marxist con game that is using you as fodder for political division, then perhaps you should rethink your little protest and try working towards concrete solutions.


If you are going to use race and social inequality as a crux for your theatrical displays of “defiance” as you are cashing checks for millions in sponsorship deals paid for primarily by white people, then I think you will find most of America laughing at you in the end. Show us your true resolve and refuse that dirty imperialist money. Otherwise, you are just another over-privileged punk pretending to be under-privileged in order to gain notoriety at the expense of reason.



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Saturday, September 30, 2017

NBA Orders Players To Stand For The National Anthem

With the NFL finding itself trapped in a vise of sliding viewership on one hand, and a sudden plunge in its favorability as a result of the ongoing "kneeling" feud with President Trump, which according to a just released POLITICO/Morning Consult poll has plunged from 30% on September 21 to just 17% on September 28, the most unfavorable in history...



... other sports franchises are desperate to avoid the backlash that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appears to have unleashed upon his league.


As a result, the NBA which has seen a similar steep drop in viewership in recent years is taking emergency proactive measures, and according to the Associated Press, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he expected players would stand for the anthem, followed up by a memo in which the NBA "recommended teams address fans or show videos expressing themes of unity before their first home games," while again reminding them of the rule that players must stand for the national anthem.


In the memo, obtained by the Associated Press, Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum suggested teams use their opening games “to demonstrate your commitment to the NBA’s core values of equality, diversity, inclusion and serve as a unifying force in the community.” He recommended an address by a player or coach to fans before the anthem, or a video featuring players or community leaders speaking about important issues and showing photos from past community events.





Tatum said the league supports and encourages players to express their views on matters that are important to them, while reminding of the rule that players, coaches and trainers stand respectfully for the anthem.



"The league office will determine how to deal with any possible instance in which a player, coach or trainer does not stand for the anthem. (Teams do not have the discretion to waive this rule)," the memo says.


The memo comes as the NBA"s preseason schedule is set to begin on Saturday with two games, including the NBA champion Golden State Warriors hosting Denver. As a reminder, the feud between Trump and certain sport players escalated last Saturday when Trump withdrew an invitation to Warriors" Stephen Curry: 



This in turn prompted the entire Warriors team to announce that "while we intended to meet as a team at the first opportunity we had this morning to collaboratively discuss a potential visit to the White House," the statement read, "we accept President Trump has made it clear that we are not invited."


As the AP adds, the memo builds on discussions held by the NBA"s Board of Governors this week, and follows up on one Silver and players association executive director Michele Roberts sent to players recently. It recommends that teams organize internal discussions to hear the players" perspectives, if they haven"t already, and to start or expand programs within their communities.





"The players have embraced their roles in those efforts and we are proud of the work they do in our communities," Tatum wrote.



While the NFL never made an explicit demand of players to stand for the national anthem, prompting many teams to do the opposite, or simply not leave the locker room, now that the NBA has taken the extra step of reminding players of what the rules are and that they "do not have the discretion to waive this rule", it will be especially interesting to observe how many players will flaunt the commissioner"s demand, what the NBA"s response to said rule violation will be, and whether the NBA"s viewership and ad revenues will see a similar sharp decline which ultimately will have an adverse impact on the players" own bank accounts.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

First Sponsor Pulls Ad Dollars From The NFL

It begins. We suspect NFL owners, and their media lapdogs, may be about to start paying attention to what President Trump (and the fans of the game) are saying (and doing).



First, Bloomberg reported overnight that fans who agree with Trump shared lists of advertisers on social media networks while calling for boycotts along with hashtags like #PunchThemInTheWallet.


Richard Levick, a crisis communications expert, says the NFL deftly navigated the weekend’s challenges but expects no shortage of hazards ahead.





“They showed a high level of unity and independence, respecting those who participated in the protests and those who didn’t,” says Levick.



“In this era of hyper politicization -- which is being driven by the White House into everything from the Boy Scouts to the NFL -- there is no safe middle of the road.”



But now, following President Trump"s warning yesterday that...





"I think The NFL is in a box, the only thing that is doing well for The NFL is the pre-game...



They can’t have people disrespecting the national anthem. The NFL has to change or their business is going to go to hell."



At least on major company has pulled his company"s advertising and sponsorship moneyAs The Times Free Press reports, two years ago, Cleveland businessman Allan Jones was proudly showing off his newly acquired Hardwick Clothing-brand suits by providing the wardrobe for NBC"s on-air talent during the network"s broadcasts of NFL football games.



But after NFL players and coaches challenged President Donald Trump and many took a knee during the national anthem played before their games over the weekend, Jones said he is through sponsoring the wardrobes or advertising on stations that air the National Football League.





"Our companies will not condone unpatriotic behavior!" said Jones, CEO of the payday lending chain Check Into Cash and owner of Hardwick Clothes - America"s oldest suit maker.



"For the 29 states we operate in, this isn"t much to them, but it"s a lot to us. The Tombras Group is our ad agency in Knoxville and our national media buyer for both TV and radio (for Check Into Cash) and don"t look for Hardwick on the NFL either."



Jones, a strong supporter of Trump, directed his media buyer, the Tombras Group in Knoxville, to remove any commercials for Check Into Cash, Buy Here Pay here USA, or U.S. Money Stores from airing during NFL games "for the entire season."



As a reminder, the league and its 32 teams made $1.25 billion from corporate partners and advertisers last year, according to ESP Properties. For decades, big companies paid vast amounts of money to bask in the associative glow of the NFL’s perceived dynamism, passion and vigor. Now they’re paying vast amounts of money to bask in the fiery hell-broth of the culture wars.


Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Disrespecting The National Anthem And The American Flag Are Not Legitimate Forms Of Political Protest

Disrespecting The National Anthem And The American Flag Are Not Legitimate Forms Of Political Protest | Stadium-Flag-Public-Domain | Protestors & Activists Special Interests US News


This is going to backfire on the left in a major way.  On Sunday, more than a hundred NFL players knelt during the playing of the national anthem.  It was obviously an attempt to make some sort of public statement about President Trump, but it was an exceedingly poor way to go about doing that.  Because our young people are not even taught about the importance of our national anthem and our national flag in school, most of these players didn’t even understand what they were doing.  Our anthem is sung and our flag is proudly displayed prior to major sporting events for a reason.  The truth is that our national anthem and our national flag are both symbols that directly represent our nation.  In other words, when you show disrespect to the anthem or to the flag you are literally showing disrespect to the United States of America.  So what these players did on Sunday was essentially to spit in the face of every single American citizen.


This is not just an American thing.  All over the world it is well understood that respect for the national flag and other national symbols is not optional.  What transpired at NFL games on Sunday will be broadcast all over the planet, and the rest of the world will be laughing at our national disgrace.


The very first NFL game scheduled on Sunday was held in London, and “dozens of players from both teams” knelt while the national anthem was being played…




The first game of the day between the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars saw dozens of players from both teams kneel while almost the entire Jaguars’ on-field and sideline players and employees locked arms during the U.S. national anthem, including owner Shahid Khan. Some players stood while others knelt.



And of course similar “sideline protests” happened at other NFL stadiums all over the nation.  Never before in American history have we ever seen anything quite like this



Demonstrations spread throughout the league as many players broke out of their routine by joining the protests or engaging in team-wide displays of unity.


Several players from the Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, New York Giants, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons were among those who chose not to stand for the anthem. The Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, New York Jets, Los Angeles Chargers and Green Bay Packers stood with arms locked, though some players from those teams chose to kneel.



I honestly don’t think that the NFL will ever be the same after this.  It had already been transformed into the “no fun league”, and now the focus will squarely be on political protests rather than football for the foreseeable future.


Needless to say, millions upon millions of Americans were completely disgusted by the disrespect shown to our national symbols on Sunday, and President Trump was one of them



“If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL, or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect …,” Trump said in tweets Saturday afternoon. “Our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU’RE FIRED. Find something else to do!”



If professional football players want to speak out against President Trump, I have no problem with that whatsoever.


But for them to openly and brazenly disrespect our entire country is crossing a line that should never be crossed.


What in the world has happened to America?  All over America high school football coaches are being banned from saying prayers before games, and yet disrespecting our anthem and our flag is somehow acceptable?  The following comes from Zero Hedge



Marc Short, the president’s legislative director, has also backed his boss, telling “Meet the Press” that a double standard for players who chose to voice their views on the field, and that the president was speaking for the majority of Americans on what sort of expression was appropriate. Short compared a crackdown on protests to the ban on high school football coaches leading players in prayer before games.


“There are high school coaches across America today who are punished for leading their players in prayer, and yet, when an N.F.L. player takes a knee, somehow that player is presumed to be a martyr for a social cause,” Mr. Short said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The president is standing with the vast majority of Americans who believe that our flag should be respected.”



Many of these players are going to look back on what they have done with great shame.  They may have believed that they were disrespecting President Trump, but the truth is that they were disrespecting this great land and every single American that has ever lived.  They owe all of us an apology, and that should happen as soon as possible.


And the NFL may think that it is all powerful, but stunts like this are going to cost it millions upon millions of dollars.  Already, ratings were way down because of the few players that were kneeling whenever the anthem was played



Player protests of the National Anthem – such as when quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest – are the number one reason sports fans watched fewer National Football League (NFL) games, a new survey shows.



If just a few players kneeling had that much of an impact on the ratings, what do you think is going to happen now?


Unfortunately, I have a feeling that this is just the beginning.  In fact, one former Democratic member of Congress is calling on all NFL players to kneel while the anthem is played



A former Democrat Congresswoman has called for every NFL player to kneel during the national anthem at Sunday’s games, while branding President Donald Trump a ‘white supremacist’.


Donna Edwards, who retired as a US representative for Maryland earlier this year, issued the bold statement on Saturday, responding to Trump’s criticism of NFL players who refuse to stand for the anthem.


‘On Sunday, I hope every @NFL player takes a knee in solidarity w [Colin Kaepernick] against the white supremacist who squats in our White House,’ Edwards said in reference to the former San Francisco quarterback, who is now a free agent.



No matter what your political perspective is, it is wrong to disrespect our national anthem and it is wrong to disrespect our flag.


And anyone that disrespects our anthem and our flag is spitting in the face of the entire country.


What happened on Sunday was a national disgrace, and those involved need to apologize to the American people immediately.







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