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The NFL just wants this controversy to go away, because it gets in the way of their astronomical profits. They tried appeasing both sides of this mess, & it's blowing up in their faces. SMDH.

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And their way of making it go away is to enforce strict loyalty,!?!?!?!?!?

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I'm sorry this makes you sad. To your first point- are you talking to me? Because I didn't use any of that phraseology, nor did Jennaratrix, so I'm not sure where you are getting that I'm reflexively framing anything. If you're paraphrasing Jennaratrix, (I think the use of quotes threw me off) they did say "let people speak", implying that saying "notallwhatever" is a way of not letting people speak. So is that the silencing that this is not? Trying to understand. Don't be sad, it's going to be ok.

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Last I checked, NFL football players have the same First Amendment rights as every other American. Still SMDH.

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ah, thank you.

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nah . . . the people over at μsoft are just used to being yelled at.

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Trump also saying that those who kneel during the national anthem should maybe not be in the country. PATRIOTISM!!!!

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https://www.nbcnews.com/pol...

HE. SAID. THAT.

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umm, does this violate the non-commenting rules? I sure hope not!

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Worked in 1930's Germany & Czechoslovakia too, but I could be wrong...

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I suspect it's another racist dog whistle. "Winning" over the uppity Negroes who should shut up and play.

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I wish I could smash it like a Keurig....

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Point being: most people watch the game to *GASP* watch the frigging game. Noone cares about the frigging national anthem when there's more important business to be conducted!

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Don’t misquote me,Dr. Defensive – it just embarrasses you when anybody else can read for themselves that I didn’t say *I* was sad, nor that you *made* me sad, but , instead, that what you were –and, now, are - *doing* is what’s actually sad.Next thing you’ll be telling me Obama should be doing more right now, to accompany the rest of your white fauxgressive rhetoric. Oh, wait – HamNo already tried that, and then he got his figurative face slappedhttps://twitter.com/TheRoot...Good Night and Good Luck.

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