09-30-2017, 03:36 PM
(09-30-2017, 03:26 PM)jason Wrote: My poll isn't as scientific, but I've yet to hear a real person outside of these forums, a couple of Facebook friends who seem to live their lives in a constant state of outrage, and the sports media even discuss it. To me that says the silent majority of Americans don't care, and are busy living their lives.
It also strikes me kinda funny that people want to boycott the entire NFL over the actions of a few. It's easy to forget that a year ago there was actually a message behind Kaepernick's protest. That message seemed to be that cops were brutalizing and killing minorities. People instantly respond "Not all cops. 90 something percent of cops do a great job. It's just a few bad apples.". It's the same with these protests. I've yet to see a Bengal kneel.
People are free to do as they please though. If they don't wanna watch or go, so be it. I don't like their method much myself, but I just can't summon any outrage over the actions of complete strangers. I take that back. I've always wished ill against Adrian Peterson since I heard he split his kid's scrotum with a switch. That's far ***** worse than anything you can do to a flag. Nobidy boycotted anything over that though.
I was just in our downtown district here this morning and was in and out of about 40-50 shops with my wife. I was wearing a bengals hat and I had at least 25 people ask me if my team stood with the flag or kneeled.
