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Oh, it was a stake all right; a MIStake.

Yep. Right after poking it once with a stick.

I agree with that. But the issue of the employee being free to work elsewhere isn’t germane, imo. I’d like to look into some settled case law on the issue. Lot of interesting facets.

I wonder if there are settled precedents regarding the issue. I’ll have to see.

Sure, but that wouldn’t be the issue if it was contested in court.

Right. Which is why I made the earlier point about certain players having their ability to be employed by the NFL impacted more than others.

Like I said, I don’t want to overthink the hypothetical here.

So contract law trumps his protected right of free exercise of religion? It would be an interesting case.

That’s how Jeffrey Dahmer got started.

I’m just asking the question about whether he could be compelled even though his religious beliefs are a preotected right. I don’t want to get into the weeds about whether he should be an NFL player or not. Let’s not over think this.

If you want to be technical, the Sabbath includes Friday as well.

Good point regarding their status as at will employees. Suffice to say, depending on the star status of a player, some would have their ability to be employed impacted less than others.

I seem to recall something about that. I’ll do a little research.

Perhaps the weakest, least intelligent form of argument on every level.

This got me thinking. What if players, especially those high recognition, high merchandise selling, STAR players, decided that playing on the Sabbath conflicted with their religious beliefs. Could they be compelled to play because they are employed by a private business?

I agree 100% that the league is operating well within their rights as employers. That is simply not questionable.

NFL is concerned with optics and how that might negatively impact the millions paid by the military to stage these for profit displays of patriotism. Over my many decades of attending sports events, I’ve seen far more blatant displays of disrespect in the stands during the playing of the anthem than anything a kneeling player shows. The hypocrisy is off the charts. Not surprised in this day and age where symbols mean more than the very right they represent.

You think he looks lean there, you should see him standing next to Vincent Jackson in a suit.

He not only refused, he didn’t even bother to answer his phone the entire offseason when the team tried calling him numerous times. And to top it off, he screwed his teammates and the fans, by showing up grossly out of shape after skipping camp. He was the picture of unprofessionalism. Yes, it was a damned shame we couldn’t find a way to keep a future HOF player. And we definitely screwed the pooch in many aspects of the relationship. But it takes two and he made it clear he wanted out the entire time. And why? Because the Bills had the temerity to ask him to own up to the deal he had only recently renegotiated?

Peterman and McCarran will be lucky to get through camp without being thoroughly demoralized by the arm talent of Josh Allen. They’ve never seen that kind of arm up close before.

NewEra needed to incorporate the Whammy Wheenie instead.

Nah. Back in the day, when they formed the NFL Quarterback Club, Kelly, Marino, Elway, Esiason, et al were the best of friends outside the lines. But they wanted to crush each other on the field. Just the way it should be.

Are we supposed to caption all the players in this photo as well?

Gotta go with the Joe Webb package deal. But you have to connect a lot of dots first.