Odds on any NFL Player kneeing for Anthem today?

[Chip Williams]

None of them would dare do it on 9/11 anniversary

 

[Wagerallsports]

Not sure they shown it anymore when they do

 

[BobbyFK]

I don't think anyone would be that disrespectful to do that today on 9/11 of all days

 

[Enikk]

Be messed up if they did but there will always be someone trying to make a name for themselves when the stage is there for it.

 

[doofy]

I didn't see anything early games.

 

[MinnesotaFats]

In exchange for not kneeling, the NFL has agreed to play the Black National Anthem

You can't make this shit up lol

What is the Black national anthem? Here's why the NFL plays 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' before games

The NFL plans to play "Lift Every Voice And Sing" before the "Star-Spangled Banner" during Week 1 games.

www.google.com

 

[MinnesotaFats]

Here is the song:

Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won

Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast

God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee

Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
Our native land


No doubt sung in unison between neighboring cell blocks everywhere today....

 

[carolinakid]

i wonder if the girl sitting in prison in russia is singing this as well ^^^^^^^^^

 

[MinnesotaFats]

i wonder if the girl sitting in prison in russia is singing this as well ^^^^^^^^^

People forget she spent time in jail in US too for beating the shit out of her wife/ GF

 

[carolinakid]

i never got why it was so much to do over her to start with, if it was a average american that person ass would be sitting in that jail for yrs, she should not be no different

 

[MinnesotaFats]

i never got why it was so much to do over her to start with, if it was a average american that person ass would be sitting in that jail for yrs, she should not be no different

I think it's more a gay issue than color.

It's not illegal to be gay in Russia anymore (it was illegal till about 2000 I think) but there's 0 protection and 0 legal rights to homosexual activities... so basically it wouldn't be illegal to beat her on the basis of sexual orientation, and, as in Rocky, if she dies, she dies....and ain't noting gonna be done about it over there.

I really think that's the hub bub...