Before last night’s preseason game against the New York Giants a dozen or so Browns players knelt and prayed on the sideline during the National Anthem in the largest silent protest by an NFL team to date. The group even included tight-end Seth DeValve, the first white player in the league to join the protests.
Coach Hue Jackson had previously spoken out in discouraging his players from protesting and last night said a bunch of gibberish distancing himself from the act and the team, in a statement from a spokesperson, did the same, saying, “As an organization, we have a profound respect for our country’s National Anthem, flag and the servicemen and servicewomen in the United States and abroad. We feel it’s important for our team to join in this great tradition and special moment of recognition, at the same time we also respect the great liberties afforded by our country including the freedom of personal expression.”
Reaction thus far has been predictably level-headed and thoughtful, and that sentiment has been expressed no more clearly than on the Browns’ Facebook page last night and this morning, where a wave of considerate, open-minded and un-reactionary (white) fans have blitzed the Review section with 1-star reviews and promises to cease watching or supporting the team, and even one pledge to become a Steelers fan, because if they can’t have their football sanitized and scrubbed of individuality and concern for justice in America, they don’t want their football at all. Enjoy.
This article appears in Aug 16-22, 2017.
– “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” –
And that’s their choice douche bag.
See Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s comments on the matter.
The one-star reviews are stupid, but no different when the SJW SPAM a page because Bac called someone Asian.
The smugness of these douche bag slactivist reporters at Scene is telling.
How do I give the guy above me a one star review?
Nice one Evander! Great rebuttal champ.
Do you think any of these people know that honoring service men and women and standing for the national anthem can be and should be mutually exclusive acts? Standing for the anthem as some act of observance to our fallen and standing soldiers but voting in elected officials that take away VA benefits is pretty oxymoronic, and make you people who are criticizing our players and team a bunch of hypocrites. Maybe I am generalizing a bit in assuming most of you who are so offended voted republican, but trump won Ohio so if the shoe fits then… Now though, we can get to the root cause of why you who deem it necessary to stop supporting our team over a silent protest are wrong. The national anthem wasn’t written to support veterans. There weren’t any veterans at the time it was written. At least not of the United States military. This song was written at the end of the revolutionary war and it exemplifies what we all fight to keep sacred as American traditions. Including your right to protest. That right isn’t exclusive to common people. It’s a right every single American gets to enjoy. Your shaming of your fellow Americans for exercising their rights bestowed upon them by the constitution of the United States of America is the most unamerican thing you can possibly do. Just some food for thought.
I am missing Scene’s coverage of them calling Jim Brown stupid for rebuking the players that keeled.
I will not go nor watch any Cleveland Browns games I will not purchase anything that anybody advertises for the Cleveland Browns I am an army and police veteran and I cannot in good conscience watches they protest those that have fallen and given so much so they can be so disrespectful!
The rental car I am currently required to drive has Oklahoma plates.
No wonder it feels so much at home, and doesn’t get lost. It thinks it’s still in OKC..
Keep on pissing into the wind with those tweets, twats. You’re all a-holes. Go back to the cesspool that is the PeeDee site, and vent your wrath there, among your own kind.
Don’t even know why SCENE bothered to re-post your bullshit at all
It’s a puzzlement, all right. Maybe they just wanted to show how many Fascists there actually are in this town. Your neighbor could even be one. You never know until the shit hits the fan.
Chuckles the Clown