Vice President Mike Pence exited Lucas Oil Stadium early after 23 San Francisco 49ers players knelt for the national anthem on Sunday. He received more criticism than from the media the athletes refusing to rise.
National anthem protests have now come to the National Hockey League, Tampa Bay Lightning forward J.T. Brown raised a fist while the anthem played at Saturday’s game.
A Texas high school student has filed a lawsuit against the school district after she was suspended for sitting during the pledge of allegiance. Seventeen-year-old India Landry says, “I don’t think that the flag is what it says it is for, for liberty, and for justice and all that. It’s not obviously what’s going on in America today.”
With the NFL’s Week 4 more or less in the rearview mirror, a review of TV ratings shows a massive loss of viewers among all ethnicities across this great nation. The loss shows that nearly every sector of the country is turning against the National Football League with whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, men, and women are all finding other things to do with their time.
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Vince Williams doesn’t care if fans don’t like the NFL’s now ubiquitous anti-American protests during the national anthem. In fact, he told fans mad enough to burn their Steelers gear not to bother coming back.
A pair of new videos showing several NFL players taunting fans and screaming the “f-word” at them have been revealed.
A New Jersey car dealership is pulling its television ads from NFL broadcasts for the rest of the 2017 football season in response to NFL teams protesting the national anthem.
The National Football League has met with the players union, the NFLPA, to discuss the national anthem protests that have plagued the last two seasons of football, reports say.
A report says that the NFL owners clashed in private over how to respond as players across the league continue to test the limits of their powers to use the national anthem to push their anti-American protests.
In an interview on Fox News, one survivor of the shooting in Las Vegas referenced the millionaire layers and their protests by saying he saw people running into the danger instead of kneeling in anger.
After initially declaring it would no longer air the national anthem on Monday Night Football, ESPN has reversed course and will show the pre-game segment. The network blames the decision on the shooting in Las Vegas.
A player for the Baltimore Ravens who stood for last weekend’s national anthem released a powerful message saying why he might find a reason to kneel during the song.
A small plane pulling a banner stating “Stand And Respect Our Flag” flew over M&T Stadium as the Pittsburgh Steelers faced the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.
More than 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for a statue of Ray Lewis that sits outside M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, to be removed after the player knelt during the national anthem.
The NBA’s Golden State Warriors decided to honor the NBA’s rules and stand for the performance of the national anthem in their preseason opener on Saturday.
As the NFL’s Week 4 kicked off, the New Orleans Saints took a knee during the coin toss but stood for the anthem. Meanwhile, across the field, three members of the Miami Dolphins took a knee during the playing of the national anthem.
The National Football League (NFL) may have more than a passing controversy on its hands as it continues to grapple with fans’ reaction to the players and staff “take a knee” protest during the national anthem before games.
A player for the Detroit Lions claimed that after he took a knee during the playing of the national anthem, his father lost a client for his home contracting business.
Fox has decided to stop giving the NFL national anthem protesters airtime and will quit showing the anthem during broadcasts, a network president said.
The NBA sent a memo to all teams Friday warning players and coaches that if they do not stand for the national anthem, they will face consequences.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated he doesn’t agree with kneeling during the National Anthem and criticized President Trump for opening up a national wound on race. Brooks said, “I don’t approve of what Colin Kaepernick did. I
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher suggested telling President Trump black people are kneeling in Puerto Rico so he’ll focus on that. Maher began his opening monologue by taking a knee. He then stated, “Donald Trump
Friday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” conservative commentator Mark Steyn reacted to the report that a Massachusetts librarian deemed the works of children’s book author Dr. Seuss as racist. Steyn pointed out how things being deemed as racist as progressed in
The Catholic diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island in New York has informed its high schools that protests against the national anthem are forbidden at sporting events and other school occasions.
“I was told – I didn’t see it, but I heard – that everybody stood for the national anthem,” Trump said.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA), who is a veteran, stated that he doesn’t like seeing people disrespect the flag and isn’t sure kneeling for the National Anthem is the best way to bring the issue
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.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said that black people should not accept invitations to the White House until President Trump apologizes for calling the NFL players who took a knee during the national anthem a “son of a bitch.”
A Tennessee businessman is pulling TV advertisements for his business that air during NFL games for the rest of football season, citing the “unpatriotic” NFL protests surrounding the national anthem.
A Northern Virginia sports bar owner will no longer show NFL games at his establishment following many NFL players’ decision to protest the national anthem.
On Tuesday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam praised his brother Jimmy Haslam, the owner of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, who aggressively attacked President Trump for his comments criticizing NFL players who publicly protest the national anthem by kneeling when it is played before the start of a game.
A Pennsylvania Fire Chief felt pressured to resign after using a racial slur to attack the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers because of the team’s protests during the NFL’s Week 3 games.
A Huffington Post columnist has waded into the NFL national anthem protests and has proclaimed that any player who stands for the anthem is a racist infused with “white privilege.”
Legendary TV producer and World War II veteran Norman Lear took a knee Wednesday in ‘solidarity’ with the NFL players protesting during the national anthem.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that students’ freedom to express conservative ideas on public university campuses is a civil rights issue, and the Justice Department has a duty to protect civil rights, including taking action against government officials who violate them.
“In my opinion, the NFL has to change, or you know what’s going to happen? Their business is going to go to hell,” Trump told reporters
Charlie Daniels says while he is a “dyed in the wool football fan,” he suspects the NFL “has reached a tipping point,” as more Americans are expressing their disapproval of players protesting the national anthem.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended President Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying he has as much right to speak his mind about the NFL’s national anthem protests as anyone else.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) stated that people who say they’re more patriot than others exhibit “a shallow patriotism” and real patriots find ways to advance the US and unite it. Booker criticized the
Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas scoffed, Monday, at the NFL’s spreading national anthem protests saying that if the players were North Koreans, they would be executed for acting so unpatriotically.
