NFL weighs 15-yard penalties for kneeling during national anthem: report

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NFL weighs 15-yard penalties for kneeling during national anthem: report
By Brett Samuels - 05/22/18 04:41 PM EDT


NFL owners on Tuesday mulled the possibility of assessing an in-game penalty against teams whose players kneel in protest during the national anthem.

Sports Illustrated reported that NFL owners met in Atlanta and discussed how to handle anthem protests moving forward.

One suggestion was to have the home team decide whether both teams would be on the field for "The Star-Spangled Banner," or remain in their respective locker rooms. If the teams chose to come out, a team would be assessed a 15-yard penalty if any of their players protested during the anthem.

Sports journalists took to Twitter and roundly criticized the concept.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/388870-nfl-weighs-15-yard-penalties-for-kneeling-during-national

[elocs]

1. Penalties should be assessed for player actions during the course of a game

and not before the actual game starts or after it ends.

[Freethinker65]

2. Aren't NFL ratings already down?

Do they want to lose ever more viewers?

What is to stop players from coming up with some other symbol/action to show their lawful opinions? Or if both teams have agreed to have at least one player kneel, the penalties would be offset.

[rzemanfl]

5. Good point. n/t

[rzemanfl]

3. I thought the NFL was contractually bound to have teams on the field for the anthem. n/t

[SCVDem]

4. The NFL and NASCAR have a lot in common!

Crap ratings! Do they really want to piss us off?

Most games are boring and I rarely watch Monday or Thursday.

[TheRealNorth]

10. NASCAR

I wish the Trumptards would go back to NASCAR

The NFL was doing fine until after 9-11 and it go co-opted by the Right Wing. Remember when they made Rush Limbaugh a Monday Night Football host.

[mythology]

11. Saying the NFL has crap ratings is just absurd

Yes NFL ratings a down some, but nowhere near as much as the rest of TV and there's a reason networks pay billions to air the games.

[scarytomcat]

19. I stopped watching years ago

too violent and too many head injuries
I don't watch boxing either
TV sucks also

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Looking forward to those half-the-distance-to-the-goal-line penalties for rapists.

[Freethinker65]

7. Burn

[Dave Starsky]

22. Absolutely. Let's go with domestic violence, too.

Games will be played entirely within the red zone.

[oberliner]

8. NFL owners are clueless

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Democratic City Governments should penalize their gravy train funding if they enact this.

How about $1 million per yard?

[louis-t]

12. Someone needs to tell the owners that they are NOT PROTESTING THE ANTHEM!

Jeez! They are NOT protesting the military. They are NOT protesting the flag or Jesus or apple pie. They are protesting the killing of unarmed black people in the streets by policemen.

[Takket]

13. they think their brand was hurt because some MAGA fools burned their jerseys

Wait until the see the backlash from the rest of us if they try something like this.

[regnaD kciN]

16. Not sure they care about "the rest of us"...

It’s not a big secret that football fans tend to be more politically conservative than the average. I'm betting the league is far more worried about a drop in revenues from Trumpistas boycotting it for being "unpatriotic" and "dishonoring Our Troops."

[regnaD kciN]

14. Sorry, Seahawks...

...but, if this proposal is adopted, I'm boycotting the Nationalist Fascist League for the duration.

[Dem2]

15. Lol @ dumbest idea ever

This has to be a joke.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. If both teams do it, will that mean they're offsetting penalties

and have to replay the anthem.

[scarytomcat]

18. maybe they should stop playing the national anthem

Why play it anyway?

[madville]

21. They'd be better off

just playing the anthem before the teams exit the locker room, pretty simple solution to a bad PR problem.

[Grassy Knoll]

23. LOL!!