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oojason
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A general Sports thread: news, results, funny, inspiring, weird, controversies, gestures etc...
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5-Sep-2018, 7:20 AM

‘Colin Kaepernick grievance set for trial after NFL dismissal request is denied’…

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/30/colin-kaepernick-grievance-nfl-trial
 

Hope Colin and others who seemingly may have been blackballed by the NFL do get signed - and if the NFL’s own rules were broken by those teams under it’s own Collective Bargaining Agreement (teams and the NFL are forbidden from coming together to deprive a player of employment), that they are admonished too.
 

Maybe even people will get back to the issue as to why people have taken the knee - instead of deflecting away from it.

 

‘I can think of nothing more American’: Beto O’Rourke responds to question on NFL protests…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAw9eXXVwfM

^ Don’t know who the politician speaking is, but seems to give a decent, reasoned and balanced overview on the situation. Am sure others will disagree.

 

Seems what people who are taking a knee want to highlight issues that are important to them, their friends, families, their communities, to their country - in a bid to make it fairer, better, and just - seems quite ‘patriotic’ that - fighting for that better future, for everyone.