MANY CONTINUE TO EITHER CRITICIZE OR APPLAUD
COLIN COPPER NICK FOR REFUSING TO STAND DURING THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM IN ORDER TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY
AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
HOWEVER, HE IS NOT ALONE IN
TRYING TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THIS ISSUE.
IT TURNS OUT THAT
ON THURSDAY NIGHT, THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHER PLAYERS WHO DID
THE SAME.
Teammate ERIC REED ALSO TOOK A KNEE DURING THE
ANTHEM AND THE SEAHAWKS PLAYER, JEREMY LANE, REFUSED TO STAND
DURING ANOTHER THURSDAY NIGHT GAME.
HE WAS MET WITH HEAVY
BOOZE FROM THE CROWN DURING THE PREGAME WARM-UP PRESIDIUM IS
INDIA WHICH IS HOME TO US NAVY AND MARINE BASIS.
BY THE WAY, I
SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT DURING THAT GAME, THEY HAD APPORTIONED
DEDICATED TO THE MILITARY SNOW NASLUND THE MILITARY.
IT WAS
LOU THE MILITARY NIGHT AND CALLING Her NECK DID TAKE SOME
ACTION TO HONOR OUR VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF OUR MILITARY BECAUSE
WHAT HE IS DOING IS NOT AN EFFORT TO DISREGARD OR BELITTLE
OR INSULT THE MILITARY.
WHAT HE IS DOING IS TRYING TO RAISE
AWARENESS ABOUT WHAT HIS COMMUNITY IS FACING AND HOW HE
WANTS SOMETHING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT.
ACCORDING TO ONE SWEET
CAVERN EXTENDING AND APPLAUDING ON 49ER SIDELINE AS US VETERANS
ARE ASKED TO STAND DURING THE BREAK HERE IN THE SECOND
QUARTER.
THERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HIM APPLAUDING AND STANDING ON
THE SIDELINE.
I GET IT HAS NOTHING TO DO THE VETERANS, IT
HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE ISSUE OF POLICE BRUTALITY PHOTOS
ON SPORTS WEBSITES AND TWITTER ON THURSDAY SHOWED Her NECK
WEARING SOCKS PATTERNED WITH IMAGES OF PIGS WITH WHAT
APPEARED TO BE POLICE HATS.
NEWS MEDIA REPORTS THAT THE IMAGES
WERE TAKEN IN MID AUGUST BUT IT SPARKED CRITICISM.
THERE ARE TWO PARTS OF THE STORY THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT.
THE FIRST PART IS HIM CONTINUING NOT TO STAND FOR THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM AND NOW HE IS JOINED BY HIS TEAMMATES AND
THE SECOND PART IS HIS CHOICE TO WEAR THOSE SOCKS WHICH I
ACTUALLY THINK IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.
HE SHOULDN'T WEAR THOSE SOCKS.
WHAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THIS WHOLE NATIONAL ANTHEM THING?
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A LOT ON THE MAIN SHOW BUT I WAS GEYER
THOUGHT STOCK.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY WE PLAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN
FRONT OF SPORTING EVENTS.
WHAT ARE SPORTING EVENTS?
THEY ARE
ENTERTAINMENT.
THAT IS ALL THEY ARE.
THEY ARE NOTHING AND THEY
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REVOLUTION THAT FOUNDED AMERICA,
THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR GOVERNMENT, THEY HAVE NOTHING TO
DO WITH THE MARINES.
IT'S A FREAKING FOOTBALL GAME AND HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING EXCEPT BEER COMPANIES MAKING
TONS OF MONEY AND THE NFL MAKING TONS OF MONEY.
THAT IS ALL THIS
IS DIET IS ENTERTAINMENT MEANT THAT THEY PLAY THE NATIONALLY
THEM WHEN YOU GO SEE A MOVIE OR GO TO AN ICE SKATING RINK.
THEY
DON'T PLAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT THOSE PLACES.?
WHY?
THEY'RE
SELLING YOU BUSH IT WHEN THEY PLAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BEFORE
SPORTING EVENTS.
I WAS THE ROSE BOWL AND THEY PLAYED THEY FLEW
THE STEALTH BOMBER AND THEY HAD THE MARINES, THAT WHAT IS I HAD
TO DO WITH COLLEGE FOOTBALL QUESTION YOU ARE ARTIE SELLING
BOOSTER COLLEGE KIDS I HAD TO SELL THEM WAR AT THE SAME TIME?
I SAY GOOD FOR YOU.
DON'T STAND UP FOR IT, GET RID OF THE WHOLE NATIONAL
ANTHEM BEFORE BIG MONEYMAKING EVENTS HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH THIS COUNTRY AT ALL.
I HAVE BEEN GOING TO A LOT OF BASEBALL GAMES AND THEY PLAY THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM BEFORE ñ.
FOR WHAT?
IT'S A FREAKING GAME.
THAT IS AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE THAT I HAVEN'T HEARD
YET.
I LIKE THAT.
I LIKE THAT PERSPECTIVE.
HERE'S ANOTHER
THING TO CONSIDER.
ON ANY GIVEN DAY ON ANY GIVEN SPORTING EVENT
WERE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS EITHER SUNG OR PLAYED, THERE IS
TONS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE SCRATCHING THEIR ASSES AND
GUZZLING BEER WHILE IT IS HAPPENING.
THEY ARE NOT
HONORING IT, THEY'RE NOT STANDING, THEY'RE NOT EVEN
NOTICING OR ACKNOWLEDGING IT AND NO ONE IS EVER REALLY UP IN ARMS
ABOUT THAT BUT I THINK THIS IS ABOUT MORE THAN ANYTHING IS NOT
THAT HE IS DISRESPECTING THE COUNTRY ARE THEY HE IS BEING
UNPATRIOTIC I THINK THAT THAT ARGUMENT IS MEANT TO DISTRACT
FROM WHAT THE MESSAGE IS AND WHAT HE IS TRYING TO GET ACROSS.
WHENEVER PEOPLE COME AT HIM WITHYOU ARE DISRESPECTING
AMERICA AND YOU ARE BEING UNPATRIOTIC.
NO.
IF YOU
GENUINELY CARED ABOUT THAT, YOU WOULD BE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT
THE HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS AT SPORTING EVENTS
THAT LITERALLY DO NOT RESPECT THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT ALL.
HE IS IN THE SPOTLIGHT SO IT'S OBVIOUSLY A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT WHEN HE REFUSES TO STAND AND BY THE WAY, I AGREE
WITH WHAT HE IS DOING.
I THINK HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO OBVIOUSLY
PROTEST SOMETHING IN THIS WAY AND I DO NOT WANT TO GET TOO
DEEPLY INTO IT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE COVERED THIS
BACK-AND-FORTH ON THE MAIN SHOW PLENTY OF TIMES, BUT AS FAR AS
WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, IF IT WERE A THIRD STREAK CORNERBACK OR
SOMEONE ELSE THAT IS NOT IN: Shoes IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT.
I DON'T THINK IT WOULD SPARK THIS KIND OF DEBATE.
THAT IS WHY IS LITTLE DIFFERENT WHEN HE DOES IT RATHER THAN
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T STAND DURING THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM AND INSTEAD SCRATCH THEIR BUTTS.
THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE ANGRY AT HIM FOR NOT STANDING DURING
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BECAUSE OF HIS REASONING FOR RAISING
AWARENESS FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY, THOSE SAME PEOPLE
WOULD PROBABLY APPLAUD AN NFL PLAYER WHO REFUSED TO STAND FOR
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LIKE OBAMA AND HE THINKS
OBAMA IS A MUSLIM APOLOGIST.
GUARANTEED THAT THEY WOULD BE SO
HAPPY WITH AN NFL PLAYER, ANY MAJOR ATHLETE WHO WOULD REFUSE
TO STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR THAT POLITICAL PURPOSE.
THEY DON'T LIKE HIS POLITICAL PURPOSE.
IT MAKES THEM
UNCOMFORTABLE, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE BEING CALLED OUT
AND I LOVE IT.
I HOPE HE SITS UNTIL WE FINALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THAT
THE FACT THAT WE ARE HAVING A DIALOGUE I THINK IS WAY MORE
VALUABLE THAN ANYTHING THAT HE CAN POSSIBLY DO AS AN ATHLETE.
YOU ARE SAYING THAT THE RIGHT WING IS TOTALLY MISSING THE
POINT OF THIS AND THEY DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT
AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT?
I DO THINK THEY'RE MISSING THE POINT I THINK THEY ARE
PURPOSEFULLY PLAYING DUMB AND ACTING AS IF THIS IS ABOUT
HIM DISRESPECTING AMERICA.
WAIT A MINUTE, DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN WE CAN ALL GET BEHIND THAT.
SOUNDS LIKE THIS GUY
WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT BUT WE CAN'T GET BEHIND THAT?
IT'S
AN INTERESTING DOUBLE STANDARD.
YOU HAVE ONE PERSON RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT CONSTANTLY CRITICIZING THE US AND HOW WE ARE LOSERS AND
THE RIGHT WING IS LIKE YEAH, WE'RE LOSERS.
CALLING Her NECK
DOESN'T SAY ANY OF THAT, ALL HE DOES IS SIT TO TALK ABOUT A
SERIOUS PROBLEM WE HAVE IN THE COUNTRY AND THE SAME
RIGHT-WINGERS ARE LIKE HOW DARE HE?
HE IS INSULTING THIS GREAT
NATION.
WHAT ABOUT THE PERSON YOU ARE SUPPORTING TO BE THE
NEXT PRESIDENT.
ALL HE DOES IS INSULT THIS GREAT NATION.