>> THE OWNER OF THE HOUSTON TEXANS IS UNDER FIRE FOR HIS COMMENTARY OR
INPUT ON THE ONGOING NFL ANTHEM
PROTEST.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A TENSE ISSUE AND SOME OF THE REACTIONS FROM
PEOPLE WHO DON'T SUPPORT THE PROTEST HAVE BEEN SLIGHTLY LESS THAN
SENSITIVE.
BUT LOOK AT WHAT BOB MCNAIR SAID.
AND HE CAME UP WITH THE
STAT SAYING THAT 96% OF AMERICA IS OPPOSED TO THE PROTEST.
I WOULD SAY
YOU INVENTED THAT AND I DON'T CARE IF 96% OF THE COUNTRY AS OPPOSED TO
PEOPLE DOING THE RIGHT THING, THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL.
THE
MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN WRONG ABOUT A LOT OF SHIT THROUGH
THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.
HE IS REFERRING TO THEM AS INMATES THERE.
SO THEY PUT OUT A STATEMENT.
THIS IS
THAT STATEMENT.
>> WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE MEANT
THE REAL INMATES?
THEY CLEARLY RUN
PRISONS UNDERNEATH STADIUMS.
I THINK
WE NEED ñ SCREW PIZZA GAY GUYS, WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW STADIUM THING GOING
ON.
>>TO ME THE MOST TELLING PART OF THAT 96% IS HOW EVERYBODY IS IN
THEIR OWN BUBBLE AND ESPECIALLY BILLIONAIRE OWNERS OF TEAMS ARE SO
EGOCENTRIC OFTENTIMES THAT THAT STAT OF COURSE DOESN'T APPLY TO THE
COUNTRY.
THERE IS AN ENORMOUS PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS
Her NECK AND REALIZES THERE IS
POLICE BRUTALITY.
UNFORTUNATELY SPECIFICALLY MORE SO AIMED AT
AFRICAN-AMERICANS BUT REALLY THE
POOR AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GET MORE THAN THE RICH DO.
IT IS ALSO A CLASS
ISSUE IN SOME DEGREE OF A RACE
ISSUE.
SO WHAT DOES HE MEAN 96%? IN HIS OWN BUBBLE WHICH MEANS NFL
OWNERS, IT IS MOST LITERALLY 96% OF
THEM WHO ARE OPPOSED TO THE PROTEST.
ONLY THE OWNER OF THE JAGUARS IS IN
FAVOR.
SO WHEN HIS WORLD 96% ARE OPPOSED TO THE PROTEST.
WHY DO THESE
PRISONERS KEEP PROTESTING?
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS DROVE ME
CRAZY IS THAT ñ IT HAS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME A LITTLE BIT ñ PROPERTY
OF THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS.
THAT ALWAYS JUST BOTHERED ME A LITTLE
BIT.
THAT IS A VERY COMMON SHIRTS.
I DON'T THINK THEY MEANT ANYTHING BAD
BY IT BUT NOW WHEN YOU SEE THE MENTALITY OF THE OWNERS AND THEY
THINK WE RUN THIS THING, AND WE VIEW YOU AS THE PRISONERS.
WE KNOW HE
DIDN'T MEAN IT LITERALLY, I HOPE.
AND THEY ARE NOT PRISONERS, THEY
MAKE A LOT OF MONEY THE PRISONERS DO.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE OWNERS
ARE NOW TELLING THEM WE WILL DOCK YOUR PAY AND SUSPEND YOU.
WE WILL
TAKE AWAY YOUR PROPERTY IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME OPINIONS AS WE DO.
IF
YOU WANT TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WE WILL PUNISH
YOU.
THAT IS NOT A PRISON, BUT IT IS PUNITIVE.
>> IT IS NOT EVEN ON THE FIELD DURING THE GAME.
IT'S NOT LIKE WE
PRODUCE THIS PRODUCT, THE SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT AND WE ARE NOT GOING
TO DO IT.
IT IS NOT EVEN THAT AND IT STILL FRUSTRATES NOT JUST THE OWNERS
BUT A LOT OF AMERICANS.
I THINK THE SIMPLEST THING IF THEY WANT TO STOP
THE PROTESTS IS HOW ABOUT THERE IS NO REASON WHATSOEVER TO PLAY THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM IN THE FIRST PLACE
AT A GOD DAMN SPORTS EVENT.
IT IS REALLY WEIRD AND CREEPY AND NORTH
KOREA E.
>> I'M A BIG SOCCER FAN AND USED TO PLAY SOCCER.
WHEN THERE IS A LOCAL
GAME, THERE IS NO NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYED.
WHEN MANCHESTER PLAYS LONDON
IN SOCCER AND ENGLAND THEY ARE NOT
PLAYING THE BRITISH NATIONAL ANTHEM.
AND WHEN ST.
LOUIS PLAYS CINCINNATI,
WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM?
>> IT'S LIKE JINGOISM IN SPORTS.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE THERE.
THERE CAN
BE, IT'S THE SAME THING WE ARE ASKED AS AMERICANS TO PUT OUR HEADS DOWN
AND NOT ASK QUESTIONS AND TO THINK THAT DISSENT IS SOMEHOW UNPATRIOTIC
AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS SOMEHOW
EXERCISING IT IS SOMEHOW UNPATRIOTIC.
THE SAME THING WITH
SPORTS.
WOULD YOU SHUT UP AND PLAY BALL.
TO ME THIS IS MORE OF A CALL
TO PLAYERS TO BE LIKE MAYBE WE SHOULD GO ON A PRISON STRIKE IF YOU
THINK THIS IS A PRISON.
>>IF YOU LOOK AT IT, WHAT THIS OWNER SAID YOU TAKE IT FIGURATIVELY, HE
REALLY IS SAYING WHAT IS THE NORM
FOR ALL JOBS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
JOBS BASICALLY ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY.
WHEN YOU WORK FOR SOMEONE THEY
REALLY ARE A DICTATOR AND YOU REALLY CAN'T ñ IF YOU CEASE SOMETHING GOING
WRONG WITHIN YOUR COUNTRY AND YOU SPEAK UP, CHANCES ARE YOU'RE GOING
TO BE LOOKED UP.
AND THIS GOES TO WHETHER IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH
SEXUAL ASSAULT OR WHATEVER.
IS A HUGE MOMENT AND IT IS BIGGER THAN
FOOTBALL.
>>AND IT HAS SUCH A RACIAL COMPONENT.
IT IS SUPER RACIALIZED.
MOST NFL OWNERS ARE WHITES, THERE I
THINK THERE IS MAYBE ONE BLACK OWNER.
>>THE JAGUAR OWNER IS PAKISTANI.
>>INMATES TO PRISON GUARDS OR PEOPLE WHO RUN PRISONS AND IT EVEN HARKENS
BACK TO SLAVERY, A LITTLE BIT OF THIS WE OWN YOU THING.
SO THERE IS A
SUPER OVERTONES OF THAT.
EVEN THE FACT THAT HE WOULD GO TO THAT
METAPHOR JUST SHOWS HOW HE VIEWS HIS
PLAYERS.
>>'S ACTUAL QUOTE IS THAT WE CAN'T HAVE INMATES RUNNING THE ASYLUM.
>>THAT MAKES HIM SOUND CRAZY THOUGH.
BUT HIS MAIN POINT IS WE ARE IN
CHARGE HERE AND TO SOME DEGREE OF COURSE THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE
COMPANY ARE OF COURSE IN CHARGE BUT IT IS NOT A PRODUCTIVE WAY OF
HANDLING EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIPS WHERE YOU SAY HEY, YOU GUYS ARE THE
PRISONERS OR THE INSANE PEOPLE THAT WE PUT INTO THIS ASYLUM THAT I RUN,
AND I WILL RUN IT WITH A HEAVY HAND.
WHETHER THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO OR
NOT, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A PRODUCTIVE WAY OF DOING IT.
ESPECIALLY FOOTBALL WITH THE WHOLE
PHYSICAL ASPECT OF IT ñ IT JUST HARKENS BACK TO THINGS THAT YOU
DON'T WANT TO HARKEN BACK TO YOU.
SO
THIS IS NOT REMOTELY HELPFUL.
SO SOME WILL SAY HE SET IT IN THE
PRIVACY OF THE OTHER OWNERS.
I'M NOT SURE THAT MAKES IT BETTER.
IN SOME
WAYS THAT MAKES IT WORSE.
AND
>>ALSO THE IDEA THAT RUN, WE CAN'T LET THEM RUN ñ NO ONE IS RUNNING
ANYTHING.
IT IS A DEMONSTRATION OF
SOLIDARITY AND MINOR PROTEST AROUND POLICE BRUTALITY.
NO ONE IS RUNNING
ANYTHING.
>> IT SHOWS YOU THOUGH HOW SCARED THEY ARE AND SHOWS YOU HOW IMPORTANT
PROTEST IS, THE FACT THAT HE IS SAYING THIS, HE IS ADMITTING
THE
FEAR.
>>GREAT POINTS.
IF Her NECK CAME AND SAID LISTEN GUYS I REALLY THINK
TICKET SHOULD BE $37.50 IN YOUR
PROFIT MARGIN SHOULD BE 12.2% YOU WOULD SAY THAT IS NOT YOUR JOB.
THEY
ARE JUST SAYING BY THE WAY, I DON'T
LIKE IT WHEN OUR BLACK GUYS GET SHOT.
I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS PART OF
THE NFL'S JOB TO HELP WITH POLICE
BRUTALITY.
IF YOU SAY THEY ARE RUNNING THINGS IT IS THE MINDSET OF
THAT THEY ARE IN CHARGE NOT JUST OF THE NFL, BUT OF THE COUNTRY.
KNOW
YOUR ROLE, BOW YOUR HEAD, BUT NOT
YOUR KNEE, AND NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING EVEN IF IT DOESN'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL GAME.
>>ALSO I THINK JUST HAVING TO LISTEN TO A SONG BEFORE YOU PLAY A GAME IS
KIND OF CORNY.
JUST TO END ON THAT.
NORMALLY THE ANTHEM IS PLAYED IN
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.
IF WE WIN THE GOLD IN THE OLYMPICS THEY WILL PLAY
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, WHAT WHICH IS
GREAT.
BY THE WEIGHT ONE OF THE GREATEST SPORTS PROTESTS OF ALL TIME
HAPPENED DURING THE OLYMPICS IN 1968.
NOW WE CELEBRATE THOSE GUYS,
BUT NOT WHEN IT IS DONE IN LIFETIME.
BUT IN 2009, THEY USED TO HAVE THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYED WITHOUT THE PLAYERS ON THE FIELD.
AND 2009 WE
CHANGED IT WHEN THE MILITARY STARTED
PAYING THE NFL FOR DISPLAYS OF PATRIOTISM.
THEN THEY MADE THE
PLAYERS COME OUT FROM THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM.
THAT WAS NOT AN ANCIENT HISTORY, THAT WAS 2009.
THIS IS
ACTUALLY PAID PATRIOTISM WHICH IS GROSS, AND OPPOSITE OF EARNED TRUE
PATRIOTISM.