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View Poll Results: Should football players and university professors be easy to fire for their views?
Football players and university professors can be fired for their views. 142 43.03%
Neither can be fired for their views 188 56.97%
Voters: 330. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-25-2017, 06:12 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Magritte25 View Post
You don't pay them. The team owners and the NFL pays them.

Also, they are paid to PLAY not stand for the National Anthem.

Also, NFL players only started standing for the anthem 8 years ago. They used to stay in the locker rooms before then. Department of Defense and the National Guard paid the NFL millions of taxpayer dollars ($6.8 million to be exact) for patriotic displays beginning in approximately 2011. Oh and the government also gave money to the NBA, MLB, MLS, and NHL for similar purposes.

You and many others are being played. Big time.
The owners made that deal. Now it's gonna bite them in the butt.

 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:13 AM
 
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Default A poll having to do with football and firing the players kneeling.

Let's say that as Trump and Trump's supporters desire any football players kneeling during the national anthem are immediately fired.

But in turn in college and universities, the students have the ability to fire any professor that has views out of the norm. In most cases this would have liberal students having conservative professors fired.



On the other hand the football players aren't fired for kneeling to the national anthem, and in turn at universities the students have no power to have professors with views out of the norm fired. This would make it so that conservative professors are safer to talk about their views.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:16 AM
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You don't fire them - you fine them and then give the money to a Veteran's charity group.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:19 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Bang! Shoots self in foot.
The national anthem is literal garbage for people of color.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:19 AM
 
Location: World
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No, they don't. And more focus on black grievances will not make them any more popular.

And many people didn't care for that either. Fortunately, it was a one time thing, or the popularity of Olympic athletes would have taken a severe hit.

The players' actions are indeed against NFL rules.
If people watch Black players, then Black Grievances will also come into the picture. They are also Americans-Equal and same as any other.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Former land of plenty
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Apples and oranges.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:25 AM
 
Location: Japan
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Originally Posted by LoveMysterious View Post
The national anthem is literal garbage for people of color.
I wouldn't be surprised if quotes like that start coming from some of the players...
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:31 AM
 
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...

The players' actions are indeed against NFL rules.
Really?

https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/09/25/nf...k-3-peter-king

Write NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell immediately. No time to tarry fooling around on this forum.

Apparently, he is unaware of these NFL rules of yours as he made it clear that he was proud of the NFL's response to Trump.

 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:33 AM
 
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The players' signed on to play football.

Perhaps they could hire less expensive folks to salute the flag and kiss Trump's ***.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 06:33 AM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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So you're saying the players aren't responsible for their own actions?
So should Trump who forced the damn issue.

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Agency - football players have it.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy))
Yet so does Trump and our "esteemed President" called those people who do son of *******. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...nthem-protests Fact, Trump forced the issue by an attack on the NFL and by result, as I stated before, pockets of players became entire teams. https://www.sbnation.com/2017/9/24/1...m-donald-trump
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