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Trump’s comments about NFL, NBA’s Stephen Curry invoke strong responses from players, owners

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  1. superbadbrutha

    superbadbrutha Banned

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    This guy vehemently attacked Pres. Obama before he ran and after he ran, but now he thinks professional athletes should have no opinion about anything in today's society and should just keep their mouth should and do as they are told.

    He received 4 or 5 deferments during Vietnam why didn't he show his patriotism by serving when others had to go off and fight for this great nation.

    I know many will come on here and try to defend these racist and devise comments, but cause he is your horse and you have to ride him until the end of the race.
     
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    The NFL unites against the country that allows people playing a game the luxury to make millions. Some of them having single digit IQs, no less. Be glad you can make a sizable living running and throwing a ball. Not standing for the anthem isnt protesting Trump. It’s protesting the people who allow you play the game. NFL TV ratings and ad revenue will be the final decider. Watching ESPN now and they simply don’t get it. When Obama made fun of almost half the country claiming they cling to their god and guns, no such outrage.

    /golfClap
     
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    icehole3 Well-Known Member

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    It's like going to a restaurant and you expect silverware but get none. Then you ask the waiter for silverware and he calls you a bum and a racist. So you walk out and go to somewhere that has silverware and spend your money there.
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    What Trump said was stupid. What he has done now is cause players to unify together in response to his comments. The NFL game in London this morning had what looked like half of the teams players kneeling during the national anthem, not even necessarily as a sign of disrespect to the anthem itself but as a show of unity and defiance to Trump and his comments. Players that had no intention of ever kneeling down are now doing so.

    Its embarrassing as a nation to have the NFL go to London to play a game and see the American players refusing to stand up for the American national anthem....Their reasons for doing so are irrelevant, from the outside perspective that's pretty damn sad to see in a foreign nation.

    This is a bad situation, the NFL is likely going to lose even more fans for the players demonstrating in this manner. Many Americans take offense to those who would refuse to stand up for the national anthem and by the players unifying together in defiance that is going to anger a lot of fans. I don't think most of these players are doing it to disrespect the flag but are simply doing it now to show unity and and give a proverbial middle finger to the President. But many fans aren't going to care WHY they are doing this they will care that they ARE, and will likely stop watching the NFL in response.

    This overall situation sucks, I'm glad I'm not an NFL owner or anything who has to deal with this sticky situation. Can't really tell players not to do this without causing backlash, can't fire them all because you need players, but by them doing this they are costing the business money by upsetting the fans (customers). So how do they even handle this situation? They need players to play the game and they need fans to pay money for the games yet the players are pissing off the fans but if you fire the players then you have nobody to play but if you let the players do this then the fans walk away....

    Yeah glad I'm not the one dealing with this...
     
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  5. superbadbrutha

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    Can you explain how the NFL is uniting against the country.

    Have you ever study a playbook?

    What do you do for a living exactly that makes you think what you do is so much more important.

    Do you have any idea why some players aren't standing?

    Who allows you to go to your job everyday. When people are rich enough to get deferment after deferment in order to avoid doing their duty and fight for their country are they protesting against the American people? When people don't register to vote are they protesting against the American people? When folks don't serve on jury duty are they protesting against the American people?

    Yep.

    Right, but you get it.

    I don't remember him making fun of anyone.
     
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    You're calling Trump stupid for saying what he said but it was Curry who went at Trump first, so blame all this on him.
     
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    Racist? Whatever.

    I don't much care to take political positions from dumb jocks. Thinking, not really what you are paid to do.
     
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    Fair enough, but what makes your opinion more valuable than theirs.
     
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    Trump is the President of the United States, Curry is a basketball player. The President shouldn't be getting into pissing contests with a basketball player....I would hope that as President he would have more important things to do....
     
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    Trying to pretend that Trump is other than a sleazebag still makes Trump a sleazebag
     
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    What racist comments? The only people who brought race into this are blacks and liberals, as usual.
     
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    The smart thing to do, is to decide to do nothing. If you don't make this a matter for discipline, then you need not be embarrassed when you can't get a disciplined response. If you don't force players or people to take a side, you don't need to sweat what side they take or fuel a division among them into the kneelers and non-kneelers. This particular form of protest is about as quiet and inobtrusive as any ever gets. Its more media driven than anything else, so don't feed the beast.
     
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    your kind doesn't control the narrative anymore, minorities and people of color are rising up and speaking up
     
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    So you'll now stop whining about being oppressed?
     
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    Yes people including presidents get called names. yes many people who get called names, stand for the anthem. What do those two 'truths' have to do with each other and why is either of them worth a post?
     
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    Steph Curry wasn't ever going anyway, so....
     
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    Keep telling yourself that, maybe one day you will believe it. His comments have always created chaos and division.
     
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    you pretty much guaranteed it when you went birther on Obama. You need to think stuff through before you do stuff. You didnt think stuff through and now you have trump...enjoy.
     
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    not true. when you brought the birther thing against Obama it was obvious what you were doing. when trump went birther it was obvious he figured his audience was racist. stop trying to ignore reality.
     
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    You know, sometimes the most stupid thing you can do as President, is to respond 'in kind'. Matter of fact, that is normally the case. It is always been my hope as an American, that basketball players not set the minimum standard for the public behavior of our global power leader.
     
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    I agree, yet I feel the most appropriate response to this would be for the networks to stop giving these players any sort of media coverage whatsoever. When Kaepernick started this he was ALL OVER the news. Major news networks, sports shows, articles, blogs, all of it. The camera would focus on him kneeling down for damn near half of the playing of the national anthem. Then as more players started doing it the cameras continued to show them and the cycle continued.

    The best thing to do is simply take them out of the spot light. People do things for recognition. People protest to make a point and if there is no audience then the protest becomes pointless. If I wanted to protest something by going on a hunger strike or something then me just sitting here alone in my house starving to death would serve no purpose because nobody even knows I'm doing it. Nobody would have even known these guys were doing this if the cameras didn't spotlight them and the media gave them a huge platform from which to voice their opinion.

    Cut it off at the knees I say. Stop even acknowledging that they are doing this. The media doesn't care though, they loved this situation it gave sports shows and news outlets loads of stories and talking points to go off of. Thats the problem with the media, they don't care whatsoever about the consequences of their media coverage, they just want the coverage because the coverage itself equals revenue.
     
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    Yes, we now have Trump, liberals are losing their minds and I'm absolutely enjoying it.
     
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    That was Clinton, remember?
     
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    The cry baby narcissist and the pompous NFL both take themselves far too seriously.

    The comical aspect, of course, is that while trump's tantrum is calculated to get his pantywaists all wee wee'd up, he exemplifies the government coercion that threatens personal freedoms. No one is harmed by someone sitting out a song. In the NFL, the real harm ensues when they break their heads.
     
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