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LINK, in case you missed itAs the 2017 NFL season got underway, an open letter written the year before by retired Marine Col. Jeffery Powers to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about players kneeling during the United States national anthem reappeared on social media. Days earlier, it had been reported that 17 players had joined Colin Kaepernick in protesting the police shootings of black men by kneeling during the national anthem before games. Powers’ letter first gained attention on 17 September 2016, when conservative commentator Allen B. West posted it to his web site: Commissioner, I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium. I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it. Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins. Now I watch multi millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and Soldiers were! You are complicit in this! You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the morale courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this. Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly? I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone? Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is ok? You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multimillion dollar contracts for playing a freaking game! You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines. I applause those who have not. Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles. They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do 24/7 often with lead,not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many do t have legs or arms. Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes. I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you! Time to change the channel. Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC(ret)
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Haven't watched a NFL game in over two years and I have no intention to start again.
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Fuqkin' A Bubba!!
The NFL and it's players can disappear from the face of the earth for all I care.
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Fuqkin' A Bubba!!
The NFL and it's players can disappear from the face of the earth for all I care. +1
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Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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The only problem I have with the Col.'s letter is his misapplication of the 1st Amendment (freedom of speech) Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly? . . . isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone? The 1st Amendment applies only to the federal government infringement, not to owners and commissioners of the NFL.
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I LIKE THAT........ A lot....... Haven't watched anything even resembling the NFL since 2012. Here's my rant.......... I'd like to watch sports but that disgusting, multi million dollar, left wing Hollywood circus act and reality show does not qualify as a legitimate sport. Football is a good game but not when the NFL turns it into a quasi-theatrical production. Who the hell is the NFL commissioner anyway ? Jerry Springer ????. Instead of the national anthem why don't they just have a ceremonial American flag burning before each game.? P.T. Barnum was truly a prophet with his " there's a sucker born every minute" comment and it's true with the millions of dollars the NFL rakes in from people who blindly support this vile and disgusting organization that basically throws the finger to decency and basic values. The NFL leadership is right on par with all the commie leftists in Hollywood and that seems fitting because they are both in show business and NOT professional sports. Best football game I've seen in years was two high school teams on a local cable access station. It was good. It was real. It was much better than watching another episode of "NFL Drama Theater - America's Number One Soap Opera". Not to mention being a giant stage for all sorts of left wing activist B.S.................... Rant over; I feel much better now.
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You did a good job there, 22250rem. You oughta feel like a million bucks. 
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America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Great comment there 22250
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I am..........disturbed.
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Thank you for posting that.
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The NFL also seeks to exert pressure on states and cities by threat of boycott to influence social engineering laws like allowing men in women's restrooms, etc. There is nothing the NFL can do to get my viewership back.
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Fuqkin' A Bubba!!
The NFL and it's players can disappear from the face of the earth for all I care. +1 They can all gofuckthemselves!
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........... Or else; Not Fer Long
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He was being too nice. I'd line them fucquers up and put a bullet in their head for disrespecting the country that made it possible for thieves, drug addicts, and wife beaters to be millionaires for running with a ball.
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Had enough reason to disrespect the NFL, long before Colon Krapperdick ever showed up on the scene..
Still a Packers fan... but instead of watching the game, just glad to hear on the news when they win....
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You took the words out of my mouth. Going on 3 years for me.
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Can´t deny its a boring sport.. but, yet another blowhard "patriot" that believes the US flag belongs to the US Military.
People that go into the services have NO right to expect thanks and gratitude..
They did so, to allow others to do whatever they want to do with their own FREE lives.
Most people do express thanks and gratitude.. however it really bothers me when people act like they deserve it.
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Northman go create a vacuum on another Bratwurst! The NFL has no money from me and won't get any. I won't buy from advertisers I am aware of. But it is hard to know who they are when you don't watch any NFL football on TV. I know they won't go broke from losing my purchases but they might if enough of us get into the mode. Kiss my grits NFL and Northman. Rusty
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Thinking about this my son may have worked for the good Col. About '94 to '98 he was a MARSOC Marine. Must be quite a squared away man, the Col. Be Well. Rusty
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Have watched exactly ZERO downs of NFL football since the Krapperdick fiasco started fall of 2016. As above, they are dead to me...
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Can´t deny its a boring sport.. but, yet another blowhard "patriot" that believes the US flag belongs to the US Military.
People that go into the services have NO right to expect thanks and gratitude..
They did so, to allow others to do whatever they want to do with their own FREE lives.
Most people do express thanks and gratitude.. however it really bothers me when people act like they deserve it. When did you have the frontal lobe removed?
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Never watched these spoiled over paid Jerks.
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Can´t deny its a boring sport.. but, yet another blowhard "patriot" that believes the US flag belongs to the US Military.
People that go into the services have NO right to expect thanks and gratitude..
They did so, to allow others to do whatever they want to do with their own FREE lives.
Most people do express thanks and gratitude.. however it really bothers me when people act like they deserve it. When did you have the frontal lobe removed? They didn't actually remove a thing...it was an exploratory surgery. They found nothing.
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+1 for every negative comment about the NFL.
Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
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The only problem I have with the Col.'s letter is his misapplication of the 1st Amendment (freedom of speech) Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly? . . . isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone? The 1st Amendment applies only to the federal government infringement, not to owners and commissioners of the NFL. They have their 1st Amendment rights and I have mine not to watch.
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What is this NFL you speak of
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Cheers to all those boycotting the NFL! I'm with you 100%.
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OOOORAH !!! SEMPER FI !
What’s nfl ?
No Football Left ?
Kneegro football league ?
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