Restaurant Refuses to Air NFL Game Due to Take the Knee Protests

[n2doc]

A Louisiana restaurant is facing public backlash after management announced it would not be airing the Saints football game on Sunday. WOW Cafe & Wingery in St. Bernard Parish was taking a stand against several NFL players who had made the decision to sit out the national anthem, according to the New York Daily News. The so-called “take the knee protests” were a reaction to racial injustice and statements made earlier in the week by president Donald Trump.

In a statement on the restaurant’s social media pages on Sunday, restaurant owner Brook Songy Anastasiadis wrote that the players’ protests during the anthem “will not be supported or praised at WOW.”

The Louisiana Saints players were among many members of the NFL who chose to sit out, take a knee, or lock arms in solidarity with other players on September 24 during the anthem. Free agent and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick pioneered taking the knee last year as a protest of police brutality and racial injustice. However, the practice drew the ire of some sports fans and critics as disrespectful, with many calling for politics to stay outside of sports.

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https://www.eater.com/2017/9/25/16360560/nfl-trump-protests-take-the-knee-restaurant

Another place I will never eat at.

[forgotmylogin]

1. It's their "wingery", so they can do what they want...

If they want to drive the "sports" out of their "sports bar." Perhaps they ought to stick to slinging wings and be political on their own time.

And go ahead and change their name to "Wow Cafe & Right Wingery".

[democratisphere]

2. The world and country are falling apart and way too many people

are getting a knot in their underwear over a person's right to freedom of expression. Idiots.

[left-of-center2012]

3. From the linked article ...

"Even before Sunday,
some restaurants and bars were tuning out during NFL games in support of Colin Kaepernick ..."

So, restaurants who don't air the NFL in support of the players are good.

Restaurants who don't air the NFL in protest against the players are bad.

[Solly Mack]

4. Yeah, well, fuck them too.

[PSPS]

5. It's as close as they can get (so far) to the coveted "whites only" sign on the door.

[dembotoz]

6. Game not on? Laugh at the owner and go elsewhere

[jaxind]

7. True Patriotism

I just wrote a letter to the restaurant owner, Brook, saying that I bet you are a die-hard Trump supporter, and that if you were truly patriotic, instead of questioning NFL players and their patriotism, you would be questioning where Trump's loyalty and patriotism to this country are when Trump has not even uttered a negative word about Putin or done anything to prevent Russia from hacking our elections again! I added, where is your outrage about that??!