HaHa! Von Miller loses Phil Long dealerships!

[Gman]

Are you referring to vets here, or cops? Because the first half of that sentence suggests vets, like the ones I linked to who support what the players are doing.

The second post is in regard to a comment about pacifists, not those kneeling during the anthem. You have allowed yourself to perceive things in my posts that did not come from me, yet you have accused me of making them. This is also called libel.

I did not state "veterans". There are untold numbers of civilians, philosophers, citizen politicians and military veterans that have sacrificed in the political experiment that is this constitutional republic of The United States. Many of them having lived and died before the game of football was ever invented. I am grateful to them and am willing to demonstrate some humility for this gift I've been given. I stand.

You also didn't find any statements by me where I believed that these players should be forced to stand against their will. They have an agreement with their employer. If making a visual impression is so important to them, they can do it on their own time. If they're willing to thumb their noses at their customer base, none of them will be employed for long. They have options, and one of them is kneeling for what they believe in and no paycheck.

What you really fail to realize, is that a visual gesture does nothing to solve the problem they seem to be demonstrating against. Doing something to actually fix the problem would be productive. Grandstanding/posturing does nothing but widen the divide. Doing it during the anthem sends entirely the wrong message.

...and then you went off into some drivel about Russia.