THE NFL HAS JUST ANNOUNCED ITS NEW POLICY IN REGARD TO
PLAYERS WHO KNEEL DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND
UNFORTUNATELY, THE NFL IS NOT SIDING WITH THE PROTESTING
PLAYERS, THEY ARE DEMANDING THAT PLAYERS WHO ARE ON THE FIELD
DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM STAND UP DURING THE ANTHEM AND IF THEY
REFUSE TO DO SO, THEN THEY SHOULD REMAIN IN THE LOCKER
ROOMS OR AT LEAST SOMEWHERE OFF THE FIELD WHERE NO ONE CAN SEE
THEM AND NO ONE WILL NOTICE OR CARE THAT THEY ARE PROTESTING.
PREVIOUSLY THE PLAYERS WERE
FORCED TO BE OUT ON THE FIELD
AND THEY HAVE CHANGED THAT POLICY TO BASICALLY LET THEM
KNOW IF
YOU DON'T WANT TO STAND AND STAY IN THE LOCKER ROOM.
THAT IS AN EXACT QUOTE FROM ROGER GOODELL, THE NFL
COMMISSIONER.
THE UNION RESPONDED AND WE WILL GET TO THEIR STATEMENT IN THE
SECOND BUT I WANT TO OPEN THIS UP TO YOU.
I WILL RAGE ON A COUPLE OF THINGS.
FIRST OF ALL THE
COMMISSIONERS SAYS THEY WILL IMPOSE APPROPRIATE DISCIPLINE ON
THE PLAYERS IF THEY DARED TO EXPRESS THEIR FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
LASHINGS MAY BE?
I DON'T KNOW AT THE DISCIPLINE WILL BE.
YOU MAY SAY THAT IS AN
OVER-THE-TOP COMMENT, WELL, TEXAS OWNER BOB MCNAIR SAID THAT
THE NFL PLAYERS, LETTING THEM KNEEL AND MAKE THOSE DECISIONS
ON THEIR OWN AS IF THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS WITH RIGHTS WAS THE
INMATES RUNNING THE PRISON.
AT THE TIME THERE WAS A LOT OF
BLOWBACK FROM IT SO HE BRIEFLY APOLOGIZED.
LATER, HE SAID THAT
THE ONLY THING HE REGRETTED WAS APOLOGIZING AND THAT THE INMATES
SHOULD NOT RUN THE PRISON.
BOB MCNAIR IN REGARD TO THIS, THERE
WAS A SECRET RECORDING, THERE HE IS, THE HORRIBLE PERSON WHO OWNS
THE HOUSTON TEXANS.
THEY ARE A FUN TEAM, IT IS A SHAME THAT I
AM FORCED TO ROOT AGAINST THEM.
JJ WATTS, IT'S GREAT
BUT IT IS HARD TO ROOT FOR THESE GUYS WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE SUCH
BAD GUYS.
MCNAIR SAID IN THESE RECORDINGS THAT THE NEW YORK
TIMES GOT, YOU FELLOWS, TELLING THE PLAYERS, YOU FELLAS NEED TO
ASK YOUR COMPADRES, FELLOWS, STOP THAT OTHER BUSINESS, LET'S
GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING THAT REALLY PRODUCES POSITIVE RESULTS
AND WILL HELP YOU.
IN OTHER WORDS, KNOW YOUR ROLE.
YOUR
ROLE IS TO LISTEN TO MY ORDERS AND PERFORM FOR ME.
SO NOW
LET'S BREAK DOWN THE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS HERE.
ROGER GOODELL
SAID IT WAS UNFORTUNATE THAT ON FILLED PROTESTS CREATED A FALSE
PERCEPTION AMONG MANY THAT THOUSANDS OF NFL PLAYERS
WERE UNPATRIOTIC.
THIS IS NOT WAS NEVER THE CASE BUT BY CHANGING THE RULE,
YOU JUST CONFIRMED IT.
YOU JUST CONFIRMED THAT FALSE PERCEPTION THAT THEY WERE
UNPATRIOTIC.
THAT IS WHY YOU ARE NOW MAKING THEM STAND FOR THE FLIGHT.
AND IT IS NOT ONLY HOW HE CHANGE THE POLICY, IT IS ALSO
THE STATEMENT THAT HE GAVE AFTER HE CHANGED THE POLICY,
ALL-LEAGUE AND TEAM PERSONNEL SHALL STAND AND SHOW RESPECT FOR
THE FLAG AND THE ANTHEM.
IF IT WAS A FALSE PERCEPTION THAT THEY WERE NOT
RESPECTING THE FLAG IN THE ANTHEM, WHY DID YOU JUST
DOUBLE DOWN ON IT AND SAY THAT STATEMENT?
AND EVEN BOB KRAFT WHO IS A HUGE SUPPORTER OF DONALD TRUMP AND
THE RECORDINGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES GOT, WHEN NFL OWNERS WERE
TALKING, LATER THEY MADE THE DECISION WITHOUT TALKING TO THE
PLAYERS BUT IN THE TIME THEY WERE PRETENDING TO CARE ABOUT
THE PLAYERS, KRAFT SAID IN THE ROOM THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS WE
HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO WILL YOU SATISFIED HER TO DO HIS MISSION
THAT I DON'T FEEL IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF AMERICA REFERRING TO
HOW WHAT TRUMP IS DOING IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF AMERICA.
THIS IS THE OWNER OF THE PATRIOTS, IT IS DIVISIVE AND
HORRIBLE.
BUT WAIT A MINUTE, YOU JUST SAID WE SUBMIT TO
DONALD TRUMP.
WE WILL FORCE OUR PLAYERS TO STAND FOR THE ANTHEM
BECAUSE HE WANTED IT, EVEN THOUGH YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT
WAS DIVISIVE AND HORRIBLE.
AMONG THE MANY DIFFERENT PROBLEMS HERE, HOW
PATHETICALLY WEAK ARE YOU ALL?
WHEN IT COMES TO DISCIPLINING THEIR PLAYERS, THEY ARE ALL
TOUGH GUYS.
I AM THE MILLIONAIRE, YOU PERFORM FOR ME.
I AM GOING TO DISCIPLINE YOU.
WHEN TRUMP SPANKS YOUR SORRY ASS,
SORRY MR.
PRESIDENT.
WE WILL MAKE THEM ALL STAND.
REMEMBER
WHEN THEY WERE OUT THERE AND SOME OF THE OWNERS EVEN TOOK A
KNEE.
EVEN JERRY JONES.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT?
ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU ARE NOT TAKING A KNEE, WELL, YOU ARE.
YOU ARE BENDING A NEED TO PRESIDENT TRUMP.
YOU ARE SO SAD AND PATHETIC.
I HAVE MORE BUT GO AHEAD.
I THINK THIS IS GREAT.
I THINK THAT THIS IS A GREAT WAY
OF SHOWING LOVE FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND SHOWING THAT YOU ARE A
PATRIOT, BUT I WORRY THAT THIS DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH.
IN FACT,
I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO HIRE MORE POLICE
OFFICERS WHO MAN THE STADIUMS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND THEY
PROVIDE CITATIONS TO ANYONE WHO IS NOT STANDING DURING THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM, EVERYONE.
IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT THE
CONCESSION STAND SCRATCHING YOUR ASS AS A NATIONAL ANTHEM IS
HAPPENING ON THE FIELD, YOU WILL GET A CITATION, SOME CERTIFIED.
IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN THE BATHROOM WHEN THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM STARTS, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE A PRISON SENTENCE BECAUSE
YOU HAVE TO SHOW RESPECT FOR THE FLAG AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
THE REASON WHY I AM SAYING THIS IS BECAUSE NO ONE CARED, NO ONE
PAID ATTENTION TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING DURING THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM ON THE FIELD OF ANY SPORTING EVENTS UNTIL YOU HAD
ATHLETES WHO HAD THE AUDACITY TO RESPECTFULLY PROTEST THE FACT
THAT MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES WERE GETTING SHOT
AND KILLED BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY ARE PART OF A MINORITY
GROUP.
UNARMED INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES WERE SHOT AND
KILLED BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN, THAT YOU HAVE BLACK ATHLETES
PROTESTING SOMETHING, EVERYONE IS OUTRAGED ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THEIR PERCEPTION IS THAT THEY ARE NOT RESPECTING THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM.
IT IS RIDICULOUS.
SO MANY THINGS TO SAY.
THE WHOLE IDEA OF DISRESPECTING THE
MILITARY IS MADE UP, IT IS A LIE.
THAT IS NOT WHY THEY ARE
DOING IT, IT IS NEVER BEEN WHY, THEY WERE VERY CLEAR BUT YOU DO
NOT SEE THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS, AS THE MEN THAT THEY ARE AND YOU
SAY, I AM GOING TO PRETEND THAT YOU WERE DOING THIS, BUT THEY
COULD MAKE A POINT ABOUT OVER MILITARIZATION BUT THAT IS NOT
THE POINT THEY ARE MAKING.
THEY ARE MAKING A POINT ABOUT POLICE
ABUSE THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, THAT
DISRESPECTS THE ISSUE, A LOT OF YOUR FANS BUT IF YOU ARE A WHITE
RIGHT WING THEN WE BOW DOWN TO YOU AND DONALD TRUMP.
IF YOU ARE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAN OR A HUMAN BEING,
YOUR VIEWS ON HOW WE NEED TO RETRAIN THE COPS
TO RESPECT THE CITIZENS IT IS IRRELEVANT.
YOU ARE SPITTING IN OUR FACE.
HOW ABOUT US?
DON'T WE HAVE RIGHTS?
ONLY THE RIGHT WING.
AND BY THE WAY, AS ALWAYS, THE
MOST SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES.
I FEEL SLIGHTLY DISRESPECTED, TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHTS.
WHAT DOES THE FLAG STAND FOR?
IT STANDS FOR AMERICA.
IT STANDS FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF
AMERICA, FOR EXAMPLE, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THE FIRST
AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND APPARENTLY SINCE THE
RIGHT WING IS SO IGNORANT, I'M GOING TO READ
IT
TO YOU:
IT IS THE CORE FOR WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR SO WHEN YOU TELL
PEOPLE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SEEK RICH REST OF GRIEVANCES,
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK OUT ON AN ISSUE THAT IS REALLY
IMPORTANT TO YOU, YOU ARE THE ONE DISRESPECTING THE FLAG.
SO
THESE HORRIBLE NFL OWNERS WHO DO NOT RESPECT OUR COUNTRY AND WHO
DO NOT RESPECT OUR FLAG ARE THE ONES WHO ARE VIOLATING ALL OF
OUR PRINCIPLES AND ARE TOTALLY UNPATRIOTIC AND THEY SICKEN ME.
AGAIN, I HOPE THAT WAS CLEAR.
VERY CLEAR.
THE PLAYERS ARE PART OF A UNION.
IT IS THE NFL
PLAYERS ASSOCIATION AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE STORY,
THE UNION WAS NOT INVOLVED OR INVITED TO ANY OF THESE TALKS
WERE THE VOTES AND SO THEY HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN REGARD
TO THIS POLICY CHANGE AND THEY SAID THE FOLLOWING:
SO THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE GOING TO REVIEW WHAT IS GOING ON AND
TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS AND FIGHT
BACK, SO WE WILL SEE HOW THAT GOES.
NOW ERIC REED HAS JOINED COLIN KAEPERNICK'S LAWSUIT
CHARGING COLLUSION.
THIS IS THE MOST CLEAR CASE OF COLLUSION
I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
COLIN KAEPERNICK IS ARGUABLY ONE
OF THE BEST QUARTERBACKS IN THE LEAGUE BUT YOU WANT TO HAVE AN
ARGUMENT ABOUT HOW HE CAN'T MAKE A TEAM, I HAVE HAD THE ARGUMENT
1 MILLION TIMES.
NO SPORTS FAN WOULD ACTUALLY SAY THAT.
IF YOU
THINK KAPERNICK IS NOT AMONG THE TOP 96 QUARTERBACKS IN THE
COUNTRY, YOU ARE AN IDIOT WHO SHOULDN'T WATCH FOOTBALL BECAUSE
YOU CAN'T APPARENTLY APPRECIATE IT BUT THAT IS NOT, THAT WILL BE
EXHIBIT Z NOW.
EXHIBIT A WILL BE ERIC REED WHO WAS THE SECOND
PERSON TO TAKE A KNEE WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK WHO WAS HIS TEAMMATE,
NOW HE IS NOT GETTING ANY JOBS.
HE IS OUT OF A JOB AND NO ONE IS
CALLING HIM BACK.
HE HAS YOUNG AND RANKED AS ONE OF THE BEST
DEFENSIVE BACKS IN THE COUNTRY.
OUT OF THE 32 TEAMS, SOME OF
WHICH ARE HORRIBLE WANT ONE OF THE BEST DEFENSIVE BACKS IN
THE COUNTRY?
THAT IS COLLUSION AND IT IS ILLEGAL.
I HOPE THEY GET SO MUCH MONEY THAT ERIC REED AND COLIN
KAEPERNICK AND BUY THE HOUSTON TEXANS.
THAT WOULD BE NICE.
COULD YOU IMAGINE IF BOB MCNAIR HAD TO GIVE THEM SO MUCH
MONEY IN A LAWSUIT THAT HE COULD NOT AFFORD THE TEXANS ANYMORE.
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
THE COLLUSION, I AM SERIOUS, THIS IS THE CLEAREST CASE
OF COLLUSION I'VE EVER SEEN.
THEY ARE BASICALLY RUBBING THE COLLUSION EVERYBODY'S FACE.
THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES, THEIR COURTS IN THIS COUNTRY.