RJM posted:Smitty28 posted:The NFL also has a kneeling problem that MLB doesn't have.
The NFL doesn’t have a kneeling problem. By the end of the season only seven players were kneeling. It was the Fox News Hannity and gang that pushed and pushed week after week kneeling was about disrespecting military and police. It kept the gullible right wingnuts on board.
It's the kneeling... Doesn't matter how many are doing it, people are pissed at the league (ie. Goodell) for not taking a stand. Until they do, many people won't be watching - and it has nothing to do with Fox News or Hannity...
And it's not so much the kneeling, it's when they are kneeling. Kneel before the National Anthem. Kneel after the game at the 50 yard line. Don't kneel while our National Anthem is playing and the Armed Forces Color Guard is standing at attention while presenting the flag.
And anyone who says this isn't about the flag is wrong. Lest you forget what Kaepernick said to start the whole thing -
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,"
He made it about the flag, and many people don't forget that.