A Letter to the NFL Commissioners

[HOPSKIPJUMP]

Pass this one on if you agree with the message…
I don’t think this could have been said any better and it definitely is a time someone said it. Hopefully, this will go out over EVERY computer in the U.S. And maybe, just maybe, these sports people will get the message of just how ridiculous they are to disrespect Our flag, and how little what they do in sports compare to what our great military has done for this country.

The NFL protesting the flag –



Ret. Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the following:


Commissioners,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the Giants Stadium.


I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies.

My last conversation with one of them, Sgt. Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it


Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.


Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes, who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for.

They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special!

They’re not!

My Marines and Soldiers were!


You are complicit in this!

You fine players for large and small infractions, but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen soldiers to put an immediate stop to this.

Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.

But I wonder, what would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs in public?


I saw a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring…
I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem!

Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?


Why is taunting the opposition or the public not allowed; yet taunting America is OK?

You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes, yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air.

They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!


You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are.

I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL.

I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines.

I applaud those teams who have not.


Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads.

· They wear body armor and carry rifles.

· They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families.

· They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday.

· They do it 24/7 often with lead in the air, not footballs, coming in their direction.

· They watch their brothers carted off in pieces. Many don’t have legs or arms, unlike the player on a gurney off to get some ice on his knee or ankle.

America’s heroes wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.

They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety.

On 9-11, hundreds vanished.

They are the heroes.


I hope that you and your high paid, protesting, pretty boys look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds.

You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.


Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida Congressman Allen West.
West then posted the Letter to his news website.


As of last week, at least 18 NFL players had protested the anthem by either kneeling during the anthem or Raising their fists, according to USA Today Sports.


If you agree with what he said please pass this on. And remember, it is a great American tradition to stop trading, watching, or participating with fools and clowns who disrespect the flag, the country, or the Constitution.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Great post. **** on the NFL and their "oppressed" thuggy millionaires. NFL = Not For Long

[Nucky]

HOPSKIPJUMP, the best post on the most important subject to me that I have ever seen on TOTV'S. Thank you so much.

[Blessed2BNTV]

HOPSKIPJUMP, the best post on the most important subject to me that I have ever seen on TOTV'S. Thank you so much.

Yes thank you for posting and words of truth.

[jchase]

I couldn’t agree more!

[tboecker]

Great post. THANK YOU . I will always STAND for my flag and my country.

[Jesse James]

I, for one, am tired of the reference of the first amendment as though it were applicable to this situation. As most know, the first amendment only guarantees that the government will not obstruct the freedom of speech. Employees always obstruct speech on the job. Try making a racist remark at work, demean the company you work for, or making sexist remarks, and you'll will be, and should be, out on your duff in a second. The motive behind the owner's acceptance of this behavior is fear; fear of what the athletes may or may not do, if they interfere and believe me, the root of this fear begins way before they play for the NFL. Try suspending a star quarterback on a college football team that is failing to make good grades in academic classes and watch the push-back. We've all see horrific things occur as a result of obsession with protecting star athletes. We start treating them special as kids and wonder why their actions can't be controlled in the workplace like everyone else.

[Happinow]

Great post. **** on the NFL and their "oppressed" thuggy millionaires. NFL = Not For Long

NFL = No Fans Left

[sail33or]

Amazing how they do not stage anything to bring attention to Chicago where black gangs kill more blacks in a day than police will shoot anyone throughout the nation. They do not stage protests over the NFL recruiting and hiring wife beaters, I could name 50 more things..........Wearing pink does not cure breast cancer and kneeling during anthem does not solve anything either. They should go into communities with their fame and money and do positive things for their cause. Look at what J.J. Watt did by raising money for hurricane relief. THAT is how to do it.

[billethkid]

For those who will throw doubt at the letter:

FACT CHECK: Did a Retired Marine Write an Open Letter to the NFL's Roger Goodell About Kneeling Football Players? (http://www.snopes.com/retired-marine-open-letter-nfl/)

Due to the media control and loyalty there will never be an adequate representation of the counter protest underway.

The constant testing of the whittling away at our core values has to be stopped.

[mixsonci]

Love this letter. I hope it gets out there for all those rich scum can see and read it and get taken down a few pegs.

[Millerw1946]

Good post. I wonder how many organizations will be watching football this Sunday at their inexpensive watering holes. ( i.e., VFW, American Legion, K of C, B.P.O.E, and many others) Just wondering.

[autumnspring]

Pass this one on if you agree with the message…
I don’t think this could have been said any better and it definitely is a time someone said it. Hopefully, this will go out over EVERY computer in the U.S. And maybe, just maybe, these sports people will get the message of just how ridiculous they are to disrespect Our flag, and how little what they do in sports compare to what our great military has done for this country.

The NFL protesting the flag –



Ret. Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the following:


Commissioners,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the Giants Stadium.


I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies.

My last conversation with one of them, Sgt. Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it


Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.


Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes, who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for.

They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special!

They’re not!

My Marines and Soldiers were!


You are complicit in this!

You fine players for large and small infractions, but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen soldiers to put an immediate stop to this.

Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.

But I wonder, what would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs in public?


I saw a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring…
I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem!

Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?


Why is taunting the opposition or the public not allowed; yet taunting America is OK?

You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes, yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air.

They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!


You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are.

I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL.

I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines.

I applaud those teams who have not.


Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads.

· They wear body armor and carry rifles.

· They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families.

· They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday.

· They do it 24/7 often with lead in the air, not footballs, coming in their direction.

· They watch their brothers carted off in pieces. Many don’t have legs or arms, unlike the player on a gurney off to get some ice on his knee or ankle.

America’s heroes wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.

They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety.

On 9-11, hundreds vanished.

They are the heroes.


I hope that you and your high paid, protesting, pretty boys look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds.

You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.


Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida Congressman Allen West.
West then posted the Letter to his news website.


As of last week, at least 18 NFL players had protested the anthem by either kneeling during the anthem or Raising their fists, according to USA Today Sports.


If you agree with what he said please pass this on. And remember, it is a great American tradition to stop trading, watching, or participating with fools and clowns who disrespect the flag, the country, or the Constitution.

There are OR SHOULD BE LIMITS. You cannot yell fire.

in the end it is truly simple. These TURDS are doing this because it gets a reaction and a reaction is what they want.

The FANS actually allow this. Yes, tickets are expensive.

IMAGINE-if the fans after saluting the flag simply left. LEAVING THESE BALL PLAYERS TO PLAY WITH THEMSELVES.

[bbbbbb]

[QUOTE=HOPSKIPJUMP;1454474]Pass this one on if you agree with the message…
I don’t think this could have been said any better and it definitely is a time someone said it. Hopefully, this will go out over EVERY computer in the U.S. And maybe, just maybe, these sports people will get the message of just how ridiculous they are to disrespect Our flag, and how little what they do in sports compare to what our great military has done for this country.

The NFL protesting the flag –



Ret. Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the following:


Commissioners,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the Giants Stadium.


I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies.

My last conversation with one of them, Sgt. Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it


Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.


Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes, who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for.

They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special!

They’re not!

My Marines and Soldiers were!


You are complicit in this!

You fine players for large and small infractions, but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen soldiers to put an immediate stop to this.

Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.

But I wonder, what would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs in public?


I saw a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring…
I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem!

Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?


Why is taunting the opposition or the public not allowed; yet taunting America is OK?

You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes, yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air.

They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!


You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are.

I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL.

I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines.

I applaud those teams who have not.


Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads.

· They wear body armor and carry rifles.

· They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families.

· They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday.

· They do it 24/7 often with lead in the air, not footballs, coming in their direction.

· They watch their brothers carted off in pieces. Many don’t have legs or arms, unlike the player on a gurney off to get some ice on his knee or ankle.

America’s heroes wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.

They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety.

On 9-11, hundreds vanished.

They are the heroes.


I hope that you and your high paid, protesting, pretty boys look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds.

You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.


Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida Congressman Allen West.
West then posted the Letter to his news website.

** COMMENT **

Hi. Well let me lend some data on this. I was a Tenured Full Professor at two different prominent Universities. Ball players are a bunch of spoiled brats. Some of them never go to class, most of them are cheating and YES, THE FACULTY GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS TO THE EXAMS BEFORE THEY TAKE IT,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, IF THEY SHOW UP.
People do not know how the world bends to cater to these idiots. Check the notation here about the former Marine who lost his buddies, while we cater to these guys who are overpaid, who play ball for a living and make millions and commit crimes and get off. Hey, if you only knew how rotten some of them are,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yes, not all. So why should a guy get paid millions of dollars for playing ball while he is so disrespectful of his country and his flag and his countrymen who died for him so he can prance around like he means something to humanity???? Fire the bums.

:mad: :mad:

[HOPSKIPJUMP]

I felt this issue was way too important not to have it verified before I posted it.
If you feel as strong as I do about this issue please send it out to all of your email contacts.

[ColdNoMore]

SMH :oops:


It's NOT about the flag or anyone's patriotism.


It's about bringing attention to this country's continued racism.


"Thinking NFL players are 'protesting the flag,' is like thinking Rosa Parks was protesting public transportation.



Here's something else to think about.

Here’s What Many White Christians Fail To Understand About The NFL Protests (https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-white-christians-fail-understand-214510957.html)

When Tim Tebow knelt on the sidelines of a football game in a defiant and public act of faith during his years as an N.F.L. quarterback, he was adored as a darling of the American church. When Colin Kaepernick knelt before games in protest of police brutality, he received death threats, was called a “traitor” and eventually, left unsigned by the NFL.

Kaepernick is a devout Christian whose faith has turned him into an activist.

Eric Reid, Kaepernick’s former teammate on the San Francisco 49ers, recently wrote an op-ed in The New York Times describing the moment that he decided to join Kaepernick’s protest last year. Reid claims it was his Christianity that moved him to take the knee.

[tagjr1]

Tebow appeared to be praying! I doubt Kapernick prayed.

[rubicon]

SMH :oops:


It's NOT about the flag or anyone's patriotism.


It's about bringing attention to this country's continued racism.





Here's something else to think about.

Here’s What Many White Christians Fail To Understand About The NFL Protests (https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-white-christians-fail-understand-214510957.html)

Racism ended with decisions by the Supreme Court and congressional legislation. what we have today's is the politicization of racism by the left for financial gain and empowerment. How can racism exist in the NFL when the majority of players are black. it is my friend an oxymoron

Personal Best Regards:

[rubicon]

The majority of us stand for the national anthem and kneel when we pray. Its called respect, humility and appreciation for the fallen who have given blood and treasure to preserve this Union.

What we are witnessing in the NFL stadiums is narcissistic over paid man-children who show no appreciation to a nation that has provided them an opportunity that they would not have had anywhere else. Many would be walking the streets or employed in menial jobs. some unfortunately in jail.

Personal Best Regards:

[l2ridehd]

If everyone would write their congressman to sponsor a bill to eliminate the tax favoritism for the NFL perhaps we could hit the owners who could stop this where it would hurt them the most. In their wallet. And if they lose that, they wouldn't have as much money to pay these jerks who show no respect for those who died to protect them.

[graciegirl]

If everyone would write their congressman to sponsor a bill to eliminate the tax favoritism for the NFL perhaps we could hit the owners who could stop this where it would hurt them the most. In their wallet. And if they lose that, they wouldn't have as much money to pay these jerks who show no respect for those who died to protect them.

I pay attention to any thing you post.

[graciegirl]

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it"...Mark Twain

[Taltarzac725]

There is only one NFL Commissioner. I would write these on occasion along with the baseball, basketball, and other major sports officials. History of the NFL Commissioner - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_NFL_Commissioner)

[Rockyrd]

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it"...Mark Twain

We finally agree...hope I do not taint your reputation by agreeing.

"deserve
verb US ​ /dɪˈzɜrv/
​
to have earned something or be given something because of your actions or qualities:
[ T ] These charities deserve your support.
[ + to infinitive ] The American people deserve to know what went wrong.
[ T ] I hope those crooks get what they deserve (= receive a punishment that suits their crime)."

deserve Definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/deserve)

[CowBubba]

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it"...Mark Twain

And right now the government does not deserve it.

[graciegirl]

Pass this one on if you agree with the message…
I don’t think this could have been said any better and it definitely is a time someone said it. Hopefully, this will go out over EVERY computer in the U.S. And maybe, just maybe, these sports people will get the message of just how ridiculous they are to disrespect Our flag, and how little what they do in sports compare to what our great military has done for this country.

The NFL protesting the flag –



Ret. Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the following:


Commissioners,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the Giants Stadium.


I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies.

My last conversation with one of them, Sgt. Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it


Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.


Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes, who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for.

They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special!

They’re not!

My Marines and Soldiers were!


You are complicit in this!

You fine players for large and small infractions, but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen soldiers to put an immediate stop to this.

Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.

But I wonder, what would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs in public?


I saw a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring…
I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem!

Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?


Why is taunting the opposition or the public not allowed; yet taunting America is OK?

You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes, yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air.

They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!


You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are.

I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL.

I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines.

I applaud those teams who have not.


Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads.

· They wear body armor and carry rifles.

· They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families.

· They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday.

· They do it 24/7 often with lead in the air, not footballs, coming in their direction.

· They watch their brothers carted off in pieces. Many don’t have legs or arms, unlike the player on a gurney off to get some ice on his knee or ankle.

America’s heroes wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.

They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety.

On 9-11, hundreds vanished.

They are the heroes.


I hope that you and your high paid, protesting, pretty boys look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds.

You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.


Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida Congressman Allen West.
West then posted the Letter to his news website.


As of last week, at least 18 NFL players had protested the anthem by either kneeling during the anthem or Raising their fists, according to USA Today Sports.


If you agree with what he said please pass this on. And remember, it is a great American tradition to stop trading, watching, or participating with fools and clowns who disrespect the flag, the country, or the Constitution.

Well said.

[ColdNoMore]

Racism ended with decisions by the Supreme Court and congressional legislation. what we have today's is the politicization of racism by the left for financial gain and empowerment. How can racism exist in the NFL when the majority of players are black. it is my friend an oxymoron

Personal Best Regards:

Amazing. :ohdear:

Racism | Definition of Racism by Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism)

Definition of racism

1 :a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

2 a :a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles

b :a political or social system founded on racism

3 :racial prejudice or discrimination


You need to rethink your assertion.

[queenv]

Totally agree!

In every job I had over my entire working life, there were guidelines and expectations of behaivor. In not one of those jobs would I have been allowed to advance my own agenda on my employers time.

The NFL players are employees .. nothing more, nothing less, although they seem to think they are a whole lot more.

I too blame the NFL. I'd be saying, "You're on my clock, on my payroll and this is how you will act while that is a statement of fact. You want to do otherwide, don't bother to dress out because you won't be playing!"

[dadspet]

Totaly agree> Way overpaid players (employed by NFL) protesting at a game is crazy. The only way the NFL will get the picture is not attending or watching the games so it hurts their pocket book. I think if most of us protested something on our Employers time in front of millions of their paying customer we would be out on the street quickly.