Hopefully Kelly whips some discipline and order into our President.
He’s been “whipping” Trump for two months now, and this is what we got.
The only thing Kelly could do that would make Trump a disciplined, ordered thinker, is to surgically swap brains with him.
He needs to keep whipping. Trump has had a chip on his shoulder against the NFL since the 1970s. But Kelly’s whipping isn’t just about the NFL, it’s about order, discipline, teamwork.
I agree with EVERYTHING you said. ALL of it.
Yup, that Buffalo Bills nonsense. And then he went with the USFL which crashed and burned.
The petty bastard never gets over anything. And with Trump just forget al about order, discipline, and teamwork. You may as well try to describe Lobachevskian geometry to a termite.
According to Snopes, the someone who dug that up was Jeff Flake, the Pub senator from AZ:
The quote from the report doesn’t directly say that players standing at attention during the anthem are doing so because of “paid patriotism” but it certainly implies it.
God, you’re an idiot. The correct music for a flag-burning ceremony is “Taps,” not the Star-Spangled Banner. :dubious:
No, I think we should worry about the North Korean situation – a lot. And not just because of what might happen militarily but also in terms of what America might look like under Trump the War President.
Trump made it pretty clear: he has no problem using nationalist symbolism as a way to tell his critics to shut up. He just needs an excuse to actually get them to shut up. Do you see where I’m going with this?
Trust me, North Korea and the NFL are very much related.
Does it?
As far as I can tell, it shows that they “may” punish players who fail to be on the field by the start of the anthem; I see that; it’s spelled out.
But what I don’t see where it shows that they “may” punish players for anything else; I just see where it spells out that the players should do X and Y and Z, just like I see where it spells out that part about how they “may” be punished if they don’t, ah, Q.
So where do you think you see one of them there silver bullets?
The only thing that MAY be punished is not being on the field by the time the anthem is sang. Sitting, kneeling, or jerking off in the bushes? None of that is covered under “Failure to be on the field before the National Anthem”.
Yes, three teams sat in the locker room. They were ok as well, as the league spokesman quoted earlier absolved them of any punishment before the games started.
Keep trying though. It’s like watching a puppy try to swim for the first time, but this time you’re happy to watch the puppy drown.
Despite Sarah Sanders’ valiant efforts to deflect, the vast majority of questions during the WH press conference focused on Trump’s tweets about the NFL, NASCAR, and “sons of bitches.” 
Any mention of the epidemic of police brutality that sparked this protest in the first place, or is everyone still concerned with ceremony and decorum and scandal?
“shrug There is no police brutality problem. If THOSE people just obeyed cops and stopped breaking laws, they wouldn’t get shot. Simple as that. What’s for lunch?”
Yes, it is. What section of the Constitution do you imagine would forbid it?
Moreover, the fact of the matter was that while the Confederate states purported to secede from the Union and form their own country, the Union’s position was that such succession was not possible and the states remained part of the country.
And the Union’s view ultimately prevailed, in the famous case of Lee v. Grant.
Demand away. Who’s stopping you?
Because why?
You seem to think the President has some sort of duty of neutrality or something, or that this somehow affects his constitutional duties. But the disorganization of your thoughts is obvious: You concede that the First Amendment doesn’t protect those players from being fired for not representing their teams in the manner their employers wish them to, but yet believe that somehow Trump’s encouraging that action violates his duty of constitutional support.
The First Amendment doesn’t apply to the players’ being fired, but somehow it still affects Trump’s actions?
Do you want to rethink that claim?
That was funny.
The NFL can write down any policy they want to without anyone caring. The league can fine teams or take away draft picks for not being on the field during the anthem, and the teams have no legal recourse. The league can suspend coaches or other team officials (considered management and not represented by a union) and those folks just have to sit and take it.
But if the league tries to suspend a player for a protest, the union is going to sue them for discipline outside of what’s allowed by the CBA. And I’m betting they’d win easily.
Which crashed and burned in no small part due to his greediness, signing stars to ridiculous money to the detriment of the league – almost all the other owners could not keep up. Instead of raising the tide resulting in lifting all the ships, he flooded the bay so quickly that everyone drowned. The league folded in the very year they were going to try playing in the fall and go head to head against the NFL (they had been playing in the spring). Result: no league, no merger, no NFL team for Trump. That happened in 1986.
Meanwhile over in the NFL…
In 1995 the NFL expanded with two new teams, Carolina and Jacksonville.
In 1999, one more new (kind of) NFL team, Cleveland.
In 2002, one more new team, Houston. The NFL now had 32 teams, whereas during the USFL years, 1983-1985, it had 28. 4 new teams, but none for Trump.
Say what? You’re joking, right?