After all due deliberation, the NFL owners have reached a policy on player protests:
However:
They're calling this a "compromise." Right.
The reaction has not been universally positive, and at least one owner is telling them to fuck off:
Even the New York Times let them have it:
Remember this?
And one former player noted the raging hypocrisy:
Something tells me this isn't over yet:
And:
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NFL owners approved a new national anthem policy Wednesday that gives individual teams the authority to set their own anthem-related rules and permits players to remain in the locker room during the playing of the anthem, according to a person familiar with the deliberations.
The new policy eliminates the current requirement from the league’s game operations manual for a player to be on the field for the playing of the anthem, allowing a player to remain in the locker room. Teams would then have the ability to set their own policy for players who choose to take the field for the anthem, including the ability to discipline a player for any protest during the national anthem.
However:
The new policy also is expected to contain a clause that the league could fine a team for any protest by a player on the sideline during the anthem, according to a person familiar with the owners’ deliberations.
They're calling this a "compromise." Right.
The reaction has not been universally positive, and at least one owner is telling them to fuck off:
Despite the NFL’s approval of a revised policy that requires players on the field to stand during the national anthem, Jets chairman Christopher Johnson told Newsday on Wednesday that his players are free to take a knee or perform some other protest without fear of repercussion from the team.
“I do not like imposing any club-specific rules,” Johnson said. “If somebody [on the Jets] takes a knee, that fine will be borne by the organization, by me, not the players. I never want to put restrictions on the speech of our players.
Even the New York Times let them have it:
The owners of the National Football League have concluded, with President Trump, that true patriotism is not about bravely standing up for democratic principle but about standing up, period.
Rather than show a little backbone themselves and support the right of athletes to protest peacefully, the league capitulated to a president who relishes demonizing black athletes. The owners voted Wednesday to fine teams whose players do not stand for the national anthem while they are on the field.
Let us hope that in keeping with the league’s pinched view of patriotism, the players choose to honor the letter but not the spirit of this insulting ban. It might be amusing, for example, to see the owners tied in knots by players who choose to abide by the injunction to “stand and show respect” — while holding black-gloved fists in the air.
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And one former player noted the raging hypocrisy:
U.S. Flag Code passed in 1942 during WW2.— Sage Rosenfels (@SageRosenfels18) May 23, 2018
176: Respecting the Flag
D. “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery”
I. “The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any way whatsoever.” pic.twitter.com/mCzmklImf9
Something tells me this isn't over yet:
The NFL players’ protests have never been about the military or the flag. They’re about police brutality and white supremacy. Failing to protest injustice in America is not patriotic, it’s dangerous. #TakeAKnee
— ACLU (@ACLU) May 23, 2018
And:
— NFLPA (@NFLPA) May 23, 2018
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