Jerry Jones: Cowboys will bench any player who 'disrespects' flag

[NRaleighLiberal]

Source: ESPN

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said emphatically his players will stand for the national anthem and not disrespect the flag, and if they do, then the player or players will not play.

"If there's anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play," Jones said after the Cowboys' 35-31 loss to the Green Bay Packers. "Understand? We will not ... if we are disrespecting the flag, then we will not play. Period."

Vice President Mike Pence says he left Sunday's 49ers-Colts game in Indianapolis over protesting that took place during the national anthem.
The topic was raised after Vice President Mike Pence left Sunday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers after more than 20 Niners knelt during the national anthem with their hands over their hearts, as was the case the previous week.

Pence tweeted a statement in which he said he would not dignify any event that disrespects soldiers, the flag or the anthem.

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Read more: http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20961541/dallas-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-says-player-disrespects-flag-play

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Oh, this is only going to get "better" and more surreal. Let the trumptweets begin.

[pangaia]

1. Well, that didn't take long.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Jerry Jones has been steadfast in his support of Ezekiel Elliott, who was accused of domestic abuse.

But taking a stand against systemic racism in the criminal justice system is too far.

People like Jerry Jones are the reason we can’t have nice things.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

34. Jerry Jones can shove it! Hope the entire team takes a knee...

and sends ol' Jerry a giant "fuck off" message.

[azureblue]

3. so you are saying

that all Pro football players disrespected the flag before 2009? That's right - no players stood up for the flag before that date.

Now why is that, Jerry? It's because, you dolt, the teams stayed in the locker rooms until after the anthem was played. Wow! Now, Jerry, let me tell you why they did that - it is because the government gave $6 mil to the NFL to make team teams be on the sidelines for the anthem.

So let me put it to you this way, you idiot. The organization which you belong to and you make a profit off of, bought 'patriotism' for $6 million.. Don't you feel proud of yourself for taking that money? I'm sure you do.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. The Sad Part Is The Conflakes Will Just Call This Fake News....

[Bengus81]

42. You have a link to that,I'd like to post it other places...

[ladym55]

4. And what will Jerry do if his entire offensive line takes a knee?

Or his starting QB? Ol' Jerry is forgetting who plays the game that makes him so much money.

This whole thing is just so much bull puckey. For every idiot in the stands who starts cheering during the anthem ... yeah.

I truly hope half of Jerry's team takes a knee next week. Then won't Jerry look like the a$$ and bully he is.

[vkkv]

6. Gawd, I hope so. that would be great. nt

[ToxMarz]

26. He basically just dared them to

They WILL NOT abide this. Just wait and see. They are MEN of means, talented, accomplished, valuable, mostly Black, and much deservedly proud. As the alt-right would say, they are not "cucks"!

[vkkv]

5. He's on the WRONG SIDE of HISTORY !!

His players won't like that one bit.

[groundloop]

7. That sounds like an invitation for team-wide civil disobedience

[C Moon]

8. That'll do wonders for team spirit. Maybe it will help them win a game.

[Initech]

9. They are not disrespecting the flag you fucking dumbasses!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Correct. Disrespecting it would be burning it or flying a confederate flag or leaving it out in rain

[RainCaster]

37. We leave our flags out in the rain.

In Seattle, the flag would seldom be up if they came down every time it rains.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Ah yes, I was thinking old style etiquette. But flags flown 24 hours should be illuminated at night

This modern guide does not mention inclement weather:

Flag etiquette dos and don'ts

[joshdawg]

14. And people like Jones and trump and othes like them will never, NEVER, understand that.

[ekelly]

23. There's no such thing as disrespecting a piece of cloth or a song.

They would be disrespecting what the flag and the anthem REPRESENT if they submit to demands that they stop exercising their rights.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Well Mr. Jones,

you just blew up your team. When the Agents and their Lawyers get done with this Sucker,this Franchise will be toast.

[MurrayDelph]

45. Not to mention the lawsuits

by ticket buyers, vendors, the city that changed out the big bucks to build their shrine, the parking lot owners, the restaurants nearby, the merch sellers, etc.

[Wellstone ruled]

50. Remember the famous

free agent Law Suits. Had one of the Lead Law Firms as a B to B client,talk about eating the NFL's lunch. Most of the Monster Legal Houses have a Sports Agents Desk or two,this is only going to get very expensive for the Billionaire owners and their Teams are going to be torn apart by internal Politics.

[safeinOhio]

13. So, most of the players take a knee and they forfeit the game,

and the next one and the next one. Then a national strike by all the players. Owners, Jones anyway, will give in rather than shut down the pro football.

[onit2day]

15. Then He missed the point altogether.Not about the flqg

or the anthem...it's about police brutality and a nation divided by few racists. H could be sued for denying a player's civil right to protest.

[onenote]

61. No he can't be sued.

[edbermac]

16. The Pack put it up your wazoo today, Jerry.

You can't afford to bench any players.

[sharedvalues]

24. He's a great argument for both a wealth tax and a big inheritance tax.

[TomSlick]

18. Ever since Jerry Jones acquired the Cowboy

my favorite NFL team has been whoever the Cowboys are playing this week. This confirms my position.

[Bengus81]

68. LOL...yeah,I love to see them get their ass kicked over and over....

[Grassy Knoll]

19. Green Bay Beat You In The Play Offs Last Year....

...And Again Today, Now You Have A Bye Week To Think
About How Taking Away A First Amendment Right Will
Bring You Money...Brilliant!!!

[dweller]

21. got news for you, ya sainctimoneous jackass

your f'n presence doesn't 'dignify' the event in the first place, any more than your hubristic holier than thou bullshit you spout and hide behind... leave! go into some private space and nflict your titey-whitey upright-your-ass mysogynist bullshit credo on your own self, and while you're at it...
READ THE CONSTITUTION!

ffs, I'd have given a standing, 2 finger salute ovation on his departure ...

[msongs]

22. just tell him the knee is praying to jeebus and sue him on religious grounds. nt

[thbobby]

25. I am hardcore Cowboys Fan

I have watched them every year since the 1960's.

But, FUCK JERRY JONES. He is an idiot who believes the Cowboys are his and his family's tinker toy.

Football issues aside, I watched my last Cowboy game today. The hypocrisy of saying kneeling is about disrespecting the flag is idiotic and evil. Black people are being murdered by police. And Jones will not let "his" team disrespect the flag? I am almost speechless. What I will say is:

FUCK JERRY JONES
FUCK DALLAS COWBOYS

For that matter, FUCK FOOTBALL. It is a game that inflicts brain damage on America's Youth. I have struggled with this for years. Thanks Jerry! You god-awful moron. You have severed my remaining link to the evil game of football. So, Jerry, Again, FUCK YOU and YOUR FAMILY.

[democratisphere]

29. Agreed.

+quatrillion

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. +1

[cstanleytech]

27. Ya know I wonder if the whole intent of what Trump is doing by attacking the varies players and

the NFL over this might be as a long term plan to take down the NFL players union as its a pretty powerful union in the country and if its taken down it potentially weakens the power of unions all together especially if he does it via the courts which are stacked with alot of right wing nutjobs currently.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. The NFLPA Is Already About The Weakest Players Assoc.

MLBPA is a juggernaut, NBAPA has gotten the owners and league to treat the game as a true partnership, and the NHLPA is just a bit behind them.

The NFLPA is already the weakest of those organizations, so they're not the object lesson you think they would be.

[cstanleytech]

59. Depends on the goal, if say the goal is to take them to court somehow to break the union and then

use the same case to break the other more powerful unions it would have served its purpose for them then.

[ProfessorGAC]

62. Like Tearing Tissue Paper

I'd buy your premise if they were going after MLBPA. That's one of the strongest and most consistent unions, ever.

[democratisphere]

28. What do we do about the guy in the oval office that disrespects America

and specially Americans? We sure as hell aren't going to kneel!

[truthisfreedom]

31. Shut up and play football you coward.

You're letting children mess with your mind.

[BlueIdaho]

32. Players strike in 3... 2... nt.

[BlueStater]

33. What does standing for a piece of fabric have to do with football to begin with?

Such an idiotic "controversy".

[erpowers]

35. Every Single Cowboy Should Kneel

Every Cowboys player, or at least the most important players should kneel before next weeks game. Lets see how Jerry Jones deals with that situation.

[TlalocW]

36. That's what I was thinking. It would be great

They all kneel, and then they turn to look at Jerry with a, "What now?" look on their face. Going to bench all of us? Don't think so.

TlalocW

[mvd]

55. Yep. If it is either forfeit the game or his position, I think..

he’ll forget his position pretty quickly. All about the $$. I hope the players do a team-wide disobedience.

[bluestarone]

64. this

100%

[Scruffy1]

38. Don't you just love some Sunday afternoon football.

Beautiful Sunday here in Minnesota. Tiring of working on my old heep, I hopped on my favorite bicycle snd went for a fall ride along the MIssissippi River. Leaves are turning, leaves are falling and it's time to enjoy it. Hardly any traffic, since the masses are glued to thir tubes getting their jollies through violence porn mixed with jingoism.

[HAB911]

39. +++++++++++

[HAB911]

40. How is the best way to show support to the players?

Not a fan so not sure how they are communicated with during the season

[Bengus81]

43. I'd laugh if Clark Hunt of the Chiefs made a blowhard BS statement like that.......

Let's see him bench,Kareem Hunt,Travis Kelsey and Tyrek Hill. Bench them for what,the first 30 seconds?? Jerry got his ass BEAT again yesterday so he figures this is the way to win eh.....

FUCK YOU JONES!!

[dembotoz]

44. What is it about cowboy stadium and sun in the eyes of players?

Did the moron cowboy owner orient that expensive stadium in the wrong direction?
Watch a lot of football, have not seen this as a problem since the days of football in baseball parks

[maxrandb]

46. Just one more reason to hate

The fucking Clownboys

[moonseller66]

47. Stand at Home?

Anybody else notice the networks got in commercials instead of covering the opening anthem? So much for their concern. Can't lose ad money over those protests.

Do you stand in your home when the anthem is played before a game?
Maybe we should all have to stand at home when CBS, NBC and Fox broadcast the anthem.

I'm sure the O-ranj-etan stands when he watches in the Very, Very White, House!

[nolabels]

49. Yea, and you see its no longer about police brutalizing and killing innocent African-Americans

[turbinetree]

48. Hey, Jones Fuck you, and oh by the way your team is not America's team

, its the Green Bay Packers (Publicly owned)

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/13/8947301/john-oliver-sports-stadiums-video


Since I a taxpayer and I own and I am part owner of your stadium, the players can do whatever they want

[stopbush]

51. The Cowboys and every other NFL team disrespects the flag every game

when they display the flag in ways that are SPECIFIC violations of the US Flag Code.

[Not Ruth]

52. All who stood lost to the Packers

Update, Sunday 3:27 p.m.: Once again, every player on the Dallas Cowboys stood for the national anthem before the Cowboys-Packers game. The Cowboys haven't had a player kneel or sit in protest. Defensive linemen David Irving and Damontre Moore raised their fist at the anthem's conclusion. Moore did so last week as well; Irving's active for the first time this season after serving a four-game PED suspension.

[rockfordfile]

57. That's a lie. "The Cowboys haven't had a player kneel "

The Cowboys kneel before Cardinal game.

[Not Ruth]

58. Not during the national anthem

[rurallib]

53. bring on the replacement players!

[DK504]

56. Jones has always looked at the players as 'his' players.

He doesn't think the players are human beings, he only looks at them as his property. He is and always has been a pig.

[onenote]

65. Pretty much the attitude of most NFL owners, I think.

Remember, these guys aren't employees who are simply hired. They are commodities that, absent a contractual provision that says otherwise, can be traded, or even sold, from one owner to the next.

[WhiteTara]

60. Be funny if the whole team took a knee.

What would he do then?

[Bengus81]

63. You have what 57 on the active roster and only 11 on the field....

There ya go Jerry,look at ALL of those you benched!! Until the offense and defense switch.

What a fucking TOAD.

[dembotoz]

66. suspect he called the packers to have them bench #12 yesterday....they didn't

[adigal]

67. Rich, white, racist scumbags sure do stick together, don't they?

I hate them all.