Will we see players kneel?

[GMDino]

(09-28-2017, 05:02 PM)Millhouse Wrote: The NFL has screwed up from the beginning in handling the kneeling. They should have banned it the moment it began. Or in the off-season have the rule back where teams are in the locker-room during the anthem. They have a million 'workplace' rules in effect on what players can wear or how to behave. But they caved on this and it is now backfiring on them big time.

I agree they could have handled this better.

(09-28-2017, 05:02 PM)Millhouse Wrote: The whole cause for kneeling also has failed. There is no discussion on the police because of it, or social injustices. Instead 99% of the discussion it stirred up is about patriotism and disrespecting the flag & anthem. And it is now a left vs right issue which is just a effing joke.

This part however is not Kaepernick's fault as much as the current political world we live in. If he had held a press conference rather than kneel we'd be in the same spot because the argument would have been why we should listen to a football player and anything else to avoid the issue.

And it's not whether I agree with his issue...it's that people are so good at spinning away to focus on something else we can't get anywhere.

(09-28-2017, 05:02 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Then we have Trump who should have just kept his mouth shut about it, and it is now blown out of huge proportions because of him.

Agree again. But he is always campaigning. He can't help himself. He needs to applause.

(09-28-2017, 05:02 PM)Millhouse Wrote: There is so much fail for all three sides of this, what positives can come from it now?

We could stop worrying about what people are doing during the anthem...just like we didn't worry, or look for anything, before CK kneeled.

And then we could talk about the issues. We could understand and discuss that sometimes we need to talk about and look at these things to see if they are as bad as someone says or if there just ways to make it better.

Also, ignoring the extremists at either end would go a long way too.