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5. The NFL promotes jingoism as part of selling its product as "America's game."

Sun Oct 16, 2016, 09:16 PM

Oct 2016

So the negative reactions to Kaepernick don't surprise me at all.

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I'm ashamed to be a Buffalo Bills fan today, actually ashamed to be an NFL fan today [View all] Feeling the Bern Oct 2016 OP

that second picture needs to be on the front page of every paper... scscholar Oct 2016 #1

Sadly, I think this would have happened almost anywhere LisaM Oct 2016 #2

The teabaggers and Trump fans really make me want to leave the US. Initech Oct 2016 #3

I'll always support the team. Marcuse Oct 2016 #4

I'm a Bills fan, but I am not a fan of many Bills fans. Feeling the Bern Oct 2016 #9

Baseball - America's Pastime Feeling the Bern Oct 2016 #6

don't all pro sports pstokely Oct 2016 #7

But in the league's defense awoke_in_2003 Oct 2016 #8