New policy requires on-field players, personnel to stand for anthem

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(05-23-2018, 03:47 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The actual point appears to be lost on some, political protest at a place of business is going to almost always be unwelcome.  If you're in the entertainment business then this is even more unwelcome.  A person's perception is that person's reality, it doesn't matter why Kaepernick and others are kneeling if a person observing their kneeling interprets it as disrespect to our nation.  It doesn't matter why the NFL is allowing it if the person observing it perceives it as disrespecting the nation.  To put it simply, politicizing your business is a piss poor business decision.  Allowing your employees to politicize your business is a piss poor business decision.  I'm not allowed to protest at work, send a personal e-mail from my work e-mail or represent my department in any way during my private life.  This is one of the reasons I have never disclosed what agency I am employed by, as my viewpoints are my own and should not be associated with them in any way.


The NFL made the right call, they just did it a year too late.  If Goodell where anything other than a sock puppet he would have squashed this the first time it happened for the above reasons.  The NFL is a business, it's as simple as that.

You will get no argument from me that this was simply a business decision.  But I will say I'd rather they take time to take the reasons behind the protests into account rather than rashly force rules.  As you say, they are a business, and their decision to let the teams handle it until they could get together to formulate a better rule is okay in my book.

Let's add that this would not have been as huge a deal as it was if the current POTUS didn't make a big deal about it.  He riled up people who probably never watched football and never would have known or cared until they were told to care because it (falsely accused) of disrespecting the troops.