NFL head: Trump's 'divisive comments' show a 'lack of respect'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY BRANDON CARTER - 09/23/17 09:33 AM EDT

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell fired back at President Trump on Saturday for encouraging league owners to remove players who take a knee during the national anthem, saying Trump’s “divisive comments” show “an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL.”

“The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture,” Goodell said in a statement. “There is no better example than the amazing response from our clubs and players to the terrible natural disasters we've experienced over the last month.”

“Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities.”

The NFL chief's comments came the morning after Trump told a crowd at a rally for Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange (R) that NFL players will stop kneeling if fans left games.



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[Gothmog]

1. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[Not Ruth]

2. A lack of respect for the NFL has little to do with Trump

The endorsement of off field criminal behavior and on field head injuries have done plenty Aaron Hernandez's daughter is suing them..

[LittleGirl]

6. Thank you

I was thinking the same! Fuck the NFL

[lark]

3. Maybe they should kneel and show peace signs Sunday, take it up a notch?

Who the fuck is drumpf to tell owners and fans what to do at a freaking game? Not-the-president is a total clown and has zero legal authority to tell owners how to treat their ee;s and fans what to do with their money and time.

[brewens]

5. He's only going to cause players to ramp up the protests. So much so that some team may

feel comfortable in signing Kaepernick. It's really only that Kaepernick had not played all that well the last couple years that he's not playing now. They don't want to pay what he's asking to an unpopular and recently unproductive player. If he was a sure fire winner, or not on the shit list because of the protests, he would be playing.

[Esteban]

7. I have to disagree

******************** G Att Cmp Pct Att/G Yds Avg Yds/G TD Int Rate
2016 San Francisco 49ers 12 331 196 59.2 27.6 2,241 6.8 186.8 16 4 90.7

Unproductive, hardly. Real statistics paint an entirely different picture. Unpopular with the team you say..

The quarterback was named the winner of the team's Len Eshmont award on Dec 20, 2016, which is the most prestigious team award that the 49ers hand out each season. The award was voted on by San Francisco players and is given to the 49er who "best exemplifies the inspirational and courageous play of Len Eshmont," according to the team's website.

He may be a lot of things but unpopular in the clubhouse is not one of them.

[rzemanfl]

14. And you play guitar too! Welcome to DU.

[brewens]

15. I meant unpopular enough with a lot of fans for them to get pissed at the GM

for paying big bucks to sign him right now. But if the fans saw him as a guy that could take them to the Superbowl, they would overlook the protests.

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. thank you

[Ligyron]

4. Apparently both supporters and opponents of the kneel are boycotting the NFL.

I don't get how anyone in the NFL media empire is suppose to know which group to cave to.

Unless I'm missing something....

[Not Ruth]

8. Do the players want fans to stop watching and buying tickets?

[NobodyHere]

9. Yeah I wonder if players will be protesting when it starts to affect their paychecks

[Ligyron]

10. IDK but a number of fans are and f.i. a bar owner mentioned in an article

won't play the Sunday games at his bar in support of Kaepernick until some team hires him.

Other RW acquaintances I know are urging a boycott on F'boook for basically the exact opposite reason. They are personally not watching because they say the league is allowing the players to disrespect the national anthem. Some are even canceling their $$ sports package on TV.

Unless I'm missing something here I don't know how the league and owners who control this thing are suppose to know the difference.

I think it would be funny if the effects of both group's boycott led them to conclude that somebody needed to give Kaepernick a job to ends this thing.

[noneof_theabove]

11. Not disrespecting...

He is praying hard that some divinity can save this country from total annihilation.

Repukes need to take 2 seconds before opening the fool-ass mouth and answer one question.
Do I have a dog in the hunt?

And the answer is NO.

Trump is a prime example of letting your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass.

The party of the 3-D's ---- deny, deflect and denigrate.

[Srkdqltr]

12. I have never understood

why kneeling .. one knee or two ... is disrespectful.
In church kneeling or genuflecting (one knee) is considered respectful.
Probably originally a sign of ultimate respect and submission.
How in the world can it be disrespectful in football or anyplace else?

[fleabiscuit]

13. K&R nt