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-Land of the Free
Jaguars apologize to local military for anthem demonstration
2017-10-18
[SunHerald] The Jacksonville Jaguars have apologized to local military leaders for demonstrating during the national anthem in London last month.

Jaguars President Mark Lamping sent a letter to the director of military affairs and veterans in Jacksonville saying the team was "remiss in not fully comprehending the effect of the national anthem demonstration on foreign soil has had on the men and women who have or continue to serve our country." The letter was forwarded to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Monday and available via his public email.

Most of the Jaguars, including owner Shad Khan, locked arms during the anthem on Sept. 24. About a dozen players took a knee during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Wembley Stadium. Similar demonstrations happened across the NFL as players, coaches and executives responded to President Donald Trump's suggestion that teams should punish players making any sort of statements of protests during the national anthem.

The Jaguars demonstrated in unity as a team and then stood for "God Save The Queen."

"This was an oversight and certainly not intended to send a message that would disparage you, our flag or our nation," Lamping wrote to Bill Spann, director of Jacksonville's military affairs and veterans department.
As a Vet and one that isn't in Jacksonville, I still say fuck you all. You acted like spoiled children and pissed on us, on our country and the freedoms we love. Eat a dick and I hope you all go out of business. You ain't worth the blood that has been spilt for you.
Posted by:DarthVader

#10  NFL football is entertainment. Period. Fans watch games on TV or go to the stadium to watch to be entertained. They did not go to be insulted. But that is exactly what the NFL players did to the payers. The players gave the famous large F*** You (hat tip to Michael Moore, heh) to the people paying for their over the top salaries. The NFL needs to be shown when you give the finger to your market.

I would like to see the NFL have their tax breaks taken away, as well as their advertising revenue. They need to be made an example of. Personal responsibility needs to be a hard lesson for these spoiled players and owners.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-10-18 18:02  

#9  The NFL commissioner signaled that the will do nothing to disrespectful players except try and buy them off with SJW programs that have Nothing to do with football.
Then a whole range of surrogates just blathered on about process, rights and understanding.
The protests are about being disrespectful to our fundamental national symbols, and the insults are taken by many in the core demographic of the NFL customer base as a personal insult. There isn't some middle ground or process to this, its visceral and serious. For many of us, the act is a FU with racial undertones of anti-white racism. Tolerance and converrsation are not bringing me back, I won't support people who insulted me.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-10-18 16:44  

#8  Peel that layer back, and we do the same thing with the high school sports magnets.

Ah yes, never mind the grades, those will be taken care of. Good pass receivers and runners are difficult to come by.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-18 13:02  

#7  Ever notice that the starting lineup announce will have which college, but not the degree?

No bio I have ever looked up brags about the degree.

Public universities are taxpayer subsidized. Money is fungible. Imagine if you had someone come up to you right now and make you write a check for all the kit, all the food & water, cost of weight room, transportation, tutor time, legal fees, recruiting cost, bail insurance, health insurance, promotional costs, and tuition of a single student athlete in any sport, especially football. Lot of money for less than 1% of the student population.

Peel that layer back, and we do the same thing with the high school sports magnets.

All of this for some Saturday afternoon to Monday night football.

It is all product forward, and was somewhat understandable as a way for many to even have the opportunity to excel. When the attitude shifted from opportunity to privilege, that so few receive so much of the school's resources and the ones who do not make the show have overall so little education - one I knew couldn't even read a tape measure, and all he knew was football and screwing.

To the point, these pro athletes are catered to their entire life. To me, it looks like a toddler used to getting anything throwing a fit at the candy check out aisle. Especially when I would have to sell my vehicle to pay for the dozen different shoes each athlete needs for workout, practice, and game conditions.

It is all for entertainment. An entertainment which supposes the viewer willingly enters a sort of fantasy zone, whether it is ewoks of meterball. When that veneer peels back and the character is the actor, and the actor is distracting to the story, the story unravels and is no longer entertainment.

So if a bunch of apex debutantes want to squat on a fancy playground, so be it, but I have better things to do than watch untalented bobble heads try to explain The Crying Game when I could be out with the kids playing football. Or better yet, teaching them how to use a tape measurer.

I am not saying sports are not important, they are. But guess which I still use - algebra or a football?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-10-18 12:59  

#6  So, the NFL has become the next Studies department. You know those studies departments which were set up by universities to house those students they suckered into indenturing student loans who received just about useless degrees. In this case for the universities' athletic departments.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-10-18 08:57  

#5  Syracuse.com - NFL TV ratings continue decline in early part of 2017 season
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-18 07:03  

#4  Jacksonville is a military town where this will not be forgotten or forgiven. Their actions in London were the epitome of “ shitting in ones own mess kit”.
Posted by: TzSenator   2017-10-18 06:31  

#3  Now Darth is even talking potty mouth like me. And he is exactly correct.

This FAD was started by some non-player that is dumb as a box of hammers.
None of them even really know what they protest, and none of the protest has anything to do with the work they are commissioned to do.

The Team doing this on Foreign Soil does have an effect. Now all those idiots are doing it too - but where it counts is on the battlefield right now.

Enemies feed off of this and embolden those on the line to join a cause.

I AM pissed that this is how this Heritage is being treated and will not stop rapturing the left untill it is your footstool.

I hate them.
Cynical jerks.
Posted by: newc   2017-10-18 01:05  

#2  I just saw a picture which looks like it was taken this year at Jacksonville's football stadium. I'd say 30,000 people were there, tops.

Plus the owner's a Muslim, recently quoted for criticizing other NFL owners as '85 year old guys who think they're not racist'. Fuck him and I hope his team suffers financially on a large scale.
Posted by: Raj   2017-10-18 00:20  

#1  Bye, bye tax breaks!
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-18 00:14  

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