Coach Tuesday

It really is. I know people who went to the hospital with COVID and never came out. No pre-existing conditions. Their families are devastated. But some folks think they get to have the "opinion" that masks don't do anything and it's their right not to wear them, that we've waited long enough to crowd into concerts and bars and restaurants and monster truck rallies. Great American Idiocy is on full display right now.

You’re trolling. You know that’s not how opinions work right? You don’t get to have the “opinion” that the Earth is flat. You know this - you just enjoy poking anyone you think is a “liberal” - there’s nothing you enjoy more, I suspect.

It may be time to start rooting for the virus.

Dude you realize the logo is backwards right? ?????

Horrible scouting program and no idea how to build a roster/allocate resources. At least Tim Murray could evaluate talent - he just pissed everyone off who worked with him and squandered draft picks too freely. Botterill couldn't even evaluate talent. He torched the roster and set the team back another 5 years.

FFY

The problem is probably extremely complicated and not capable of being reduced to chewable soundbites or political talking points. The steady erosion of the middle class. The reduction and elimination of social welfare services leaving the police to pick up the slack. The prison-industrial complex as a powerful lobbying group with a direct financial incentive to push heavy-handed and draconian police procedures. The embedded reactionary-ism of unions. The ghettoization of, well, urban ghettos and the unequal distribution of, and access to, basic human needs and services. Changing national demographics and the inability of the (soon to be former) white majority to adapt to changing times and global competition for trade and intellect. Etc. etc. It is a multi-layered problem - a societal Rubik’s Cube that is nearly impossible to solve. Racism exists. But it does not come close to explaining what we’re witnessing.

This exists...

I have a strong feeling about this! I am entitled to my opinion no matter what anyone else says. Please don’t push so-called “facts” on me. The other side doesn’t care about facts - they’re brainwashed by a corrupted and partial media. I have every right to my opinion and nothing anyone could say will ever make me change it. The Constitution says so!

I’m tired.

I feel like we’re drifting here. Making fun of someone because of their appearance isn’t nice. Making fun of someone because of their race isn’t PC and is widely frowned upon. Denying someone equal access to rights and benefits (or their life or liberty) because of their race is racism.

Great! We agree.

So if the private employer ok's kneeling during the anthem, you're good with it?

See how this works?

Oh come on! Just own it.

It’s political. Keep it out.

Including the anthem itself and the Air Force flyovers?

Maybe he’d undertake that near-impossible task if you first post some examples of you actually changing your mind about something in your lifetime.

And? ?

I’ve heard plenty of folks in this thread suggest removing the anthem ritual from the pre-game. So yes? Personally I have no problem with it if the Army wants to advertise and certain people want to express their patriotism or whatever and others want to kneel. To each his or her own, Gerry. But I’m sure you’ll go dig up some incident from 1983 when Joe Biden discussed his love of the national anthem and waive it in our faces as some kind of “See they’re all hypocrites!” retort.

Inaugerations?

It really means: “keep politics I don’t agree with out of the NFL.”

“We will protest quietly, in the most inoffensive way possible, on our own time and in a manner that draws no attention to ourselves. We want everyone to be completely comfortable at all times, and we will ask only ordinary people, not celebrities or other influentials, to take part.” - said no successful protest, ever EDIT: the Boston Tea Party disrespected the Crown. Should the colonists have done something less offensive to show their anger at taxation without adequate representation? EDIT 2: Maybe the problem isn't politics in sports, it's sports in politics. People treat politics like they're rooting for sports teams, against other teams. The "don't disrespect the flag" crowd acts like THEY'RE the flag being disrespected - like they're on "Team Flag," and that someone who silently kneels during the Anthem is somehow protesting THEM.

You know what, sometimes there’s just a societal overcorrection and overreaction after years of underreaction in the other direction. It’s not necessarily fair but that’s what happens and it makes sense. The #metoo movement might be an example - lots of reputations being torched for things people did while it was still ok to do them - certain people just get caught up in the gears when societal norms suddenly change, when they snap forward in the opposite direction. It can feel very unfair and to those people it probably is - but that’s what happens when things are going in the wrong direction for too long. Society overcorrects, first, and then hopefully a more appropriate balance is stricken. But you’re right: right now is not a good time to be on the wrong side of the culture wars and the impending changes that many of us are advocating for and predicting. It’s long overdue. I’m sorry you feel shouted down in the meantime - it’s just a very loud of roar for change. The “other side” had its day in the sun and the rest of us felt silenced, for decades even.

And right there, with all due respect, is what is wrong with your argument. It’s all spelled out right in that statement. Astronomical platforms can lead to meaningful change. That’s what protests are all about. This seems so obvious.