Timex
5512
In Philly you’d probably get assaulted, but it’d be totally unrelated to your actions during the anthem.
In Seattle? Probably you’d get a few seconds of side-eye then they’d go back to ignoring you.
I do go to sporting events, and though I’ve never knelt I usually decline to stand. Not due to a particular protest but simply because I got enough of that fake patriotism shit during my own military service, and because buying a ticket to a baseball game doesn’t oblige me to stand and publicly demonstrate my love of the flag, thanks anyway.
No-one’s ever given me any shit, but I’m 6’3" and fairly sturdy so it may just be that.
ShivaX
5515
Turns out indignation is easier when one is at home, sitting on the couch, drinking a beer.
Seriously, it’s not like these fucks are standing up in their living room. Half of them probably run out of the room to take a quick piss or shit when it starts.
Scuzz
5516
I have always found it strange that people demand the players stand at attention when probably 50% of the crowd completely ignores the national anthem because they are talking, walking to their seats, in the bathroom or buying a beer.
You know, important stuff.
I also think that if in the minds of people this becomes all about the national anthem and not about protesting existing conditions then the players have lost.
ShivaX
5517
Technically anytime the anthem is played anywhere you’re supposed to face the source and put your hand over your heart.
I’m willing to bet if you drove down the street blaring it you might get… 4 people to do that. And they’d all likely be vets.
Edit: Also this whole dog and pony show with the anthem only started in 2009 because the military wanted PR.
Players used to sit in the locker room during it, until the NFL mandated otherwise.
Also this dude wins:
Our president doesn’t know that, but he’s mad at other people for not doing something he wouldn’t do. This seems consistent (with him being an unrelenting ass.)
ShivaX
5519
https://sports.yahoo.com/alejandro-villanueva-takes-blame-standing-anthem-223017948.html
Oops.
“Every single time I see that picture of me standing by myself, I feel embarrassed,” Villanueva said, according to the Twitter feed of Chris Adamski of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
“I made my teammates look bad, and that is my fault only,” Villanueva said, according to KDKA. “We as a team tried to figure it out, but obviously butchered it.
“For anybody who thinks coach Tomlin is not as patriotic as you can get in America, I’m offended by that,” Villanueva said. “I made coach Tomlin look bad, and that is my fault, and my fault only.”
Villanueva said his teammates are extremely supportive and patriotic. And he said he has no problem with anyone who kneels during the anthem.
They’d totally throw batteries at you in Philly.
Or throw up on you.
Folks, if you’ve not listened to this, do yourself a favor.
http://thedollop.libsyn.com/64-the-fans-of-philadelpha
Timex
5524
We were so rowdy in the vet that they had to open a court of law, in the stadium itself, to handle the cases.
Fans who attended games in the stadium for a football game gained a reputation of being among the most vociferous in sports, especially those in the notorious 700 Level, the highest seating level in the stadium prior to the construction of luxury skyboxes behind that seating area. The stadium became famous for the rowdiness of Eagles fans.
One of the more well-known examples of the fans’ behavior was during the 1989 season at a follow-up game to what many called the “Bounty Bowl”. On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1989, the Eagles had defeated the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium, 27-0.[20] In that game, Cowboys placekicker Luis Zendejas suffered a concussion during a rough block by linebacker Jessie Small after a kickoff. After the game, Cowboys rookie head coach Jimmy Johnson commented that Eagles coach Buddy Ryan instituted a bounty on Zendejas and Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman. Two weeks later, on December 10, they played the rematch dubbed “Bounty Bowl II” at the stadium which the Eagles won 20-10.[21] The stadium seats were covered with snow in the stands. The volatile mix of beer, the “bounty” and the intense hatred for “America’s Team” (who were 1–15 that season) led to fans throwing snowballs at Dallas players and coaches.[22] Beer sales were banned after that incident for two games. A similar incident in 1995 at Giants Stadium during a nationally telecast San Diego Chargers–New York Giants game[23] led the NFL to rule that seating areas must be cleared of snow within a certain time period before kickoff.
The Eagles fans’ behavior during a Monday Night Football loss[24] to the San Francisco 49ers in 1997 and a 34-0 loss to Dallas a year later[25] was such that the City of Philadelphia assigned a Municipal Court Judge, Seamus McCaffrey, to the stadium on game days to deal with fans removed from the stands in what was referred to as “Eagles Court”.[8] Two years later, fans threw D-Cell batteries at St. Louis Cardinals outfielder J. D. Drew after he spurned the Phillies’ offer to play with them, and wound up going back into the draft and picked by the Cardinals.[26]
Yeah, that’s totally covered in that podcast episode I linked, and it’s hilarious.
Another good article out of Teen Vogue. I’m not sure how many younglings see/read these types of articles, but it’s great that these things are accessible to the next generation.
I’m totally picturing this conference room in the bowls of the stadium where Judge Seamus McCaffery, decked out in full Eagles attire, presides over the cases of unruly fans brought before him during games. The bailiff is Swoop, of course.
“You have been found guilty of throwing a beer bottle at Eli Manning as he exited the field at halftime. You are hereby sentenced to recite “Fly Eagles Fly” 10 times. At the completion of your sentence you will grab a cold one from the cooler over there and watch the second half with us on the 60-inch. Swoop, more nachos!” -gavel-
Not to deviate from the point of the article, but is that picture from Sunday’s protest? Because while those guys are kneeling, there are some other Chiefs players milling around in the background.
It’s times like this I miss the like button so … have a creepy gif instead.
Telefrog
5531
The source article is here:
Note the difference between “People are worried about a possible plan…” and “Trump admin will now collect…”
Twitter journalism sucks.
