Trump ‘Very Happy’ NFL Players Are Standing Again for National Anthem
“I was told – I didn’t see it, but I heard – that everybody stood for the national anthem,” Trump said.
“I was told – I didn’t see it, but I heard – that everybody stood for the national anthem,” Trump said.
Looking exactly like the bunch of surly, sullen, spoiled babies they are, during Thursday night’s NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, the players might have all chosen to be muscle-bound pouters while locking arms, but… BUT!… those very same surly, sullen, spoiled babies were all standing for the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
Not only did the Packers’ weak attempt to get the entire stadium to interlock arms during the anthem, flop. The ratings for Thursday Night Football crashed again, as more Americans decided they’d rather not be told how their ruining the world by a bunch of people who majored in checkers.
The Packers players wrote a long letter to their fans this week. A letter in which the team asked their fans to join them in interlocking arms during the anthem on Thursday night. According to quarterback Aaron Rodgers, this was a moment that stood for, “…equality.” As well as “…unity and love, and growing together as a society and starting a conversation around something that may be a little bit uncomfortable for people.”
Sports teams ask a lot of their fans, especially in places like Green Bay. Where, depending on the time of year, a fan could get hypothermia while just sitting in his seat. However, one recent request the team has made of the Pack faithful has left fans feeling a little hot.
The Bengals entered Week 3 of the NFL season, having not scored an offensive touchdown. However, amidst a sea of protest across the league on Sunday, the Bengals scored in another way, a way that will leave a lot of their fans happy.
A lot of teams trying to avoid the dreaded 0-2 hole in Week Two of the NFL season, including the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots who travel to New Orleans to take on the Saints, who are in the same boat.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay defensive lineman Mike Daniels’ strip sack of Russell Wilson deep in Seattle territory in the third quarter set up Ty Montgomery’s 6-yard touchdown run on the next play to spark the Packers’ 17-9 win on Sunday.
Wednesday, Fox Sports 1 “Speak for Yourself” co-host Jason Whitlock reacted to Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers supporting Colin Kaepernick’s protest and saying he should be signed to a team. Whitlock questioned Rodgers’ honesty about Kaepernick, saying if
In an interview with ESPN The Magazine, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers gave his opinion about why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, doesn’t have a job. According to Rodgers, Kaepernick’s unemployment has nothing to do with his ability to play football.
Normally nothing good comes from an NFL player writing messages on his shoes. However, this time around, it was the perfect thing to do.
Despite the fact that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has dominated the Chicago Bears this season, the Chicago Tribune couldn’t seem to bring itself to mention his name in a tweet about his breakup with actress Olivia Munn.
Free agency is upon us. That time of year where most fans, and even a few NFL executives, eschew any notion of player value or fiscal responsibility, in the pursuit of Super Bowl greatness. Invariably though, this emotionally-driven quest brings us to a dilemma, where decision makers must decide if talented players with checkered pasts are worth the financial and moral nosedive it would take to sign them.
ATLANTA (AP) — Matt Ryan and Julio Jones teamed up for a dominant playoff performance, and the Atlanta Falcons ignored all those ghosts from the last half-century.
The NFL is a quarterback-driven league, so it should come as no surprise that the last four teams standing have elite signal-callers.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame has done something truly great, and exclusively released rare audio from Vince Lombardi’s Super Bowl I press conference.
As rival fans left AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, after the Cowboy’s tough loss to the Green Bay Packers, some fans let their hot air get the better of them as some fights broke out.
No Dallas Cowboys fan in the country has been harder hit by the team’s playoffs loss to the Packers than Cowboys super fan Jordan Garnett, especially after making national news with his giant, full-arm-sized Cowboys Super Bowl 51 tattoo.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — This time it was a catch, and another win for the Green Bay Packers.
Packers fans will watch Sunday’s game against the Cowboys under protest. Not because they don’t believe the game to be real, transparent, or credible, but rather, because they strongly dislike Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
It seems like NFL postseason ratings have picked up right where NFL regular season ratings left off. Following a season that saw an 8% dip in ratings from the previous year, the opening wild-card weekend of the NFL playoffs also took a hit.
After the New York Giants 38-13 playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers, reports say that Giants star Odell Beckham Jr. became so infuriated that he banged his head against a door and punched holes in the walls of Green Bay’s Lambeau Field visiting locker room.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers, master of the Hail Mary pass, struck again in another big moment.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — There’s a lot more to the playoff history between the Giants and Packers than a scarlet-faced Tom Coughlin standing on a frigid sideline in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Jan. 20, 2008, in New York’s numbing overtime win in the NFC Championship game.
Washington (AFP) – Green Bay, Detroit, Washington and Tampa Bay will chase playoff berths in Sunday’s final NFL regular-season games while four other clubs try to join Dallas and New England with first-round byes.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Matthew Stafford moved on quickly from another loss to his hometown team.
When the Bountygate scandal involving the New Orleans Saints broke, after their 2009 NFC Championship Game against the Minnesota Vikings, several former players at the time stepped forward to say that they too had played for teams that also had cash payouts for injuring opponents.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) angered Cleveland fans Monday at the Republican National Convention. Ryan, a Green Bay Packers fan, was handed the Pittsburgh Steelers’ “Terrible Towel” after he got up to speak. “I want to win this election so
The two-and-a-half candidates still seeking the Republican nomination for president (John Kasich counts as a half because he can’t mathematically obtain the required delegates) don’t agree on much these days, but Sarah Palin is calling on all of them to unite behind a cause that Wisconsin voters surely support. The former governor of Alaska is imploring the White House hopefuls to help push a former NFL star over the goal line, straight in to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
After almost 62 years, Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Bart Starr corrects the record by revealing that the injuries that almost ended his 1950s-era college football career came as a result of “brutal” hazing he received when at the University of Alabama.
During the Thursday Night Football match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, the Packers overcame a 17-0 first half deficit to win 27-23. How the Packers were able to pull it off was quite impressive, but also controversial. Green
Former NFL star and now Mississippi high school football coach Brett Favre went on NBC’s “Tonight Show” Wednesday and claimed he has not thrown a football in five years. The 46-year-old was given a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt to wear while throwing
The Green Bay Packers gave the San Francisco 49ers a rough time on Sunday. Not only did they win 17-3, but they held 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to just 160 yards to go along with no touchdowns and one interception. Packers
In his post-game interview after defeating the Seattle Seahawks during Sunday Night Football 27-17, Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers took quite a shot at Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson, telling reporters, “And then getting help from God. I
According to a new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling before the Super Bowl, Americans largely prefer the Seattle Seahawks, viewing them much more favorably and rooting for them to defeat the New England Patriots.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie celebrated with Jerry Jones in the owner’s box when the Cowboys came from behind to defeat the Detroit Lions in Sunday’s wildcard game. So, the Cowboys owner naturally wants New Jersey’s governor with him at
Fresh off his appearance in the owner’s box at Sunday’s unlikely comeback in Dallas, Governor Chris Christie is looking forward to cheering for the Cowboys in their upcoming game against the Green Bay Packers.