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The National Anthem Incident...

Article #3 November 05, 2017 by Joe Americano

We all know that it started with Colin Kaepernick’s taking a knee during the National Anthem on game day and blaming it on the Police and black lives. It has now spiraled into a national problem for the NFL and is continuing to cause problems. REAL Americans, who pay to see Football and other sports, don’t like having their Flag and Anthem used as a political hot potato. 


The President, I feel, is right in his position that this kind of behavior doesn’t belong on the field and I feel that I have the ultimate easy solution that will make Americans go back to their national pastime of Football. 

It’s this simple, we go to a sporting event for the same reason we go to a concert or a play, TO BE ENTERTAINED. We don’t go to get the opinion or views of the players. Players are hired to PLAY not give us their views and opinions. SO, let’s just take the players out of the beginning of the event. Let’s have the Flag and the National Anthem BEFORE the players take the field. The can come out of their locker rooms after we have had this special traditional portion of game day or game night completed. Let’s let them do what they are paid to do and what we come to see them do PLAY not PONTIFICATE! 

If players think they are so important that we should listen to what they has to say, let them go on OPRAH or ELLEN and make their point about how they feel minorities are being treated today. That’s fine. IF they are popular enough let them make their mark there, not on OUR field (most stadiums are paid for by taxes), not on OUR dime (actually a lot more than a dime to watch a game) and not on OUR time. 

And also, these players make millions of dollars each year to “entertain” us. I would like every player who thinks he needs to make a point about racism or unfairness donate $50,000.00 to $100,000.00 to his favorite minority cause and put his own money where his mouth is. 

SO, we have a simple solution to a simple problem. Let’s take the National Anthem and the American Flag away from these “entertainers” and give it back to the people.

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