Sentences with phrase «players kneeling»

But hey, he's upset over a picture of players kneeling from 2014, so they're still a year behind on this stuff over in the West Wing.

Players kneeling during the national anthem is the most recent NFL controversy, but certainly not the first nor the biggest.

President Trump continued his beef early this morning with NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, suggesting fans boycott the games to bring an end to the protests and said the «League should back U.S.» by firing the athletes.

Malliotakis faced multiple questions concerning her view of President Trump's recent denunciations of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.

Terrell Suggs was among the many Ravens players kneeling, with Ray Lewis joining the team.

On Friday night in Alabama, Donald Trump said if an NFL owner saw one his players kneeling in protest during the national anthem he should make that «son of a bitch» leave the field.

While players kneeling doesn't rise anywhere close to something that would make me boycott the NFL, I can understand why others might feel differently and I, at the very least, can respect their principles as they're eliminating something they enjoy to make a statement on their beliefs.

Players kneeling or sitting are protesting police brutality and the unequal treatment of people of color in the United States.

It's a similar sentiment, softer stance, and less offensive take on it than what Texans owner Bob McNair had at the owners meeting when he said «we can't have the inmates running the prison,» in reference to players kneeling during the anthem.

Though for more than a year, some players have been kneeling during the anthem before games as a way to raise awareness about racial injustice, yesterday marked widespread protests in the form of players kneeling, linking arms and holding fists in the air.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

Back in November, then - CEO Schnatter blamed the National Football League's leadership for hurting the company's performance because it had not resolved the ongoing controversy over players kneeling in protest during the National Anthem.

Fallon's rendition touched on the #MeToo movement («Come women and men who hashtag #MeToo / And believe me when I say that we believe you»), NFL players kneeling in protest of the national anthem, and Michael Wolff's controversial book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House» — with several jabs at Trump thrown in.

The Cowboys have yet to have a player kneel during the anthem since Kaepernick started protesting police brutality, inequality, and the oppression that people of color in the United States face in 2016.

Jones» statement comes the same day that Vice President Pence left the Colts game, after 49ers players kneeled for the anthem.

But according to The Wall Street Journal, «representatives said they are making exceptions this season — which began in September — because of the controversy over the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem.»

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In wake of the on - field protests that swept the NFL, when players knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice, the NBA released a memo to teams that recommended ways to support community activism while reminding them of a league rule that enforced players standing during the anthem.

Before drills began, the players knelt on the field and bowed their heads for a prayer led by senior fullback Rob Roberts.

Dozens of NFL players knelt during the national anthem after President Donald Trump referred to Colin Kaepernick as a «son of a bitch» and stated that players who protested should be «fired.»

More than a dozen Browns player kneeled during the anthem while others stood linking arms behind and alongside their teammates.

At least six Bills players kneeled and linked arms, with other members of the team resting a hand on them in support.

Black and Rokita have tapped into an emotional and polarizing national argument that began when Kaepernick and other NFL players knelt during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police violence.

With the support of team owners, players knelt, while others, like Tom Brady, opted to stand and lock arms in a show of solidarity.

In these a player kneels on the ground with someone holding the ankles.

One panel shows a headless player kneeling with blood shooting from his neck, while another player holds the head.

Hank Willis Thomas promises more facilities, too, on the Broadway billboard, with an image of a football player kneeling for the next play.

Not exact matches

Reid was one of the first NFL players to join Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice.

The president and his top allies have continued to defend his comments, saying kneeling players are disrespecting the American flag and national anthem.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

The fight coincided with Trump's criticism of NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as a gesture of protest against police profiling of African - Americans.

Sand's post came in response to NFL players protesting by kneeling during the national anthem, a controversy that flared up last weekend when President Donald Trump came out against the protests.

«The problem we have is, we have a president who will use that as fodder to do his mission,» said New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, describing Trump's provocations about kneeling players as «the elephant in the room.»

Despite his impressive stats, Reid, the first player to kneel alongside Kaepernick, remains unsigned.

Other players criticize and scoff at him: Two Detroit Lions players recently knelt in mockery of him during a game, one after sacking Tebow for a loss and the other after scoring a touchdown....

Maybe we'll tell them about the night you proposed in the moonlight, kneeling in the grass with a mix tape playing Six Pence None the Richer songs on the portable CD player, holding up a ring paid for with the tips from Tulsa oil tycoons at the club where you worked.

When players protest, a common rebuttal from the majority who believe players shouldn't kneel during the anthem is that their protests are better made on their own time, that doing so at game - time is unsportsmanlike.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's...

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's also the Christian thing to do.

Many of the replies pointed out that some players mimic the Muslim prayer after they score by kneeling down.

The most recent Twitter bout started when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he would bench any players who chose to «disrespect the flag» — presumably referring to some players» recent protests against racist police brutality, which they've demonstrated by kneeling during the national anthem.

The last 24 hours had seen football players, coaches and even team owners kneeling in solidarity during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against black people.

After hours of careful consideration, and even a visit from Nate Boyer, a retired Green Beret and former NFL player, we came to the conclusion that we should kneel, rather than sit, the next day during the anthem as a peaceful protest.

Are you going to argue that all the players who knelt are pouting?

They're the latest in a string of NFL players to kneel during the anthem as part of a movement started by Colin Kaepernick last year.

The messaging galvanized many owners to kneel or stand elbows locked with their players against a common enemy: The President of the United States, and not racial injustice, the thing that kneeling was initially supposed to protest against.

By Week 17, just seven players continued kneeling — Duane Brown, Marquise Goodwin, Eli Harold, Louis Murphy, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills, and Olivier Vernon — none of whom play for either of the NFL's two best teams.

DeValve, a second year tight end, is the first white NFL player to kneel for the anthem.

Only instead of an icon to hard work and humility or a football player that's fun to watch play football, for a week at least, he's the walking, kneeling reminder of just how completely f «ing insane America can be sometimes.

The focus of the demonstrations during the national anthem has shifted ever since President Donald Trump made remarks in Alabama, saying that any player who kneels is a «son of a bitch» who should be fired.