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I'm not a football fan (sorry; I know nothing about American football), but from this, I figured that this team, which I believe is called Patriots, visited the White House when Obama was in the office and when Trump was in the office.
I don't know if it's customary or not for the players to sign on the helmet, but at one occasion, they did and on the other occasion, they didn't.
What does this mean? Or maybe it means nothing. Don't know.
I believe the owner of the Patriots is a Trump guy. The coach, Bill Belichick, evidently watched this year's Super Bowl from Mar-A-Logo. And I want to say that Tom Brady is also a Trump guy. I don't recall care about the politics of sports stars and celebrities. I listen to both Neil Young and Kid Rock, watch Bruce Willis movies alongside Tim Robbins and my favorite quarterback remains Aaron Rodgers in spite of his vaccine status which I personally do not agree with.
I think worry about the politics of people like that takes away from my enjoyment of their sport or their art which takes away from my enjoyment of life itself. Your mileage may vary.
There is always some politics in sports but it went overboard when Trump jumped into kneeling and Kapernick.
Before Trump, you might have a President give broad critique like "Steroids bad" or "CTE bad" but they didn't do weekly rallies crapping on a sport, and they always steered away from race, left that to the players /owners to sort out.
Trump turned everything into National Presidental politics and players felt ambushed including players that supported Trump. Most football players are not that outspoken and no one would recognize them walking down the street, only a handful of guys are vocal or want media attention. How many New England fans could pick out all the guys in those photos, not many.
When "people are yelling at players and saying they hate America because 10 players kneeling during the portion of the game that is not even aired on TV and it happened on another team all the way across the country, it doesn't sit well with them.
If I live to be 200, I'll never understand the need to either praise or insult someone based on how someone who seeks to be popular feels about someone else being liked/disliked by some clique.
If I get this straight, I should think Trump is bad because an aging celebrity points out that a group of celebrities treated Donald Trump less cool than they treated Obama, therefore Trump is not cool? How the players for the New England Patriots treat people is how I should base my perception of others?
Hmm...
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