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Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 9:16 AM
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that seem to be choreographed along with game planning each week? Personally, I think they look foolish. If they wanted to play golf, be a rockettes dancer, or whatever else they simulate, then why choose football? Starting to look more like XFL to me, which is now defunct for said foolishness
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Absolutely. It’s a kids game, no point in not keeping it fun.***
Dec 18, 2017, 9:27 AM
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Re: Absolutely. It’s a kids game, no point in not keeping it fun.***
Dec 18, 2017, 9:31 AM
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The NFL appeal is dropping fast. There were a lot of empty seats at the Pittsburgh game.
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Re: Absolutely. It’s a kids game, no point in not keeping it fun.***
Dec 18, 2017, 10:51 AM
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What are you talking about? The game broke the attendance record in Pittsburgh...in the rain.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 9:31 AM
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it Stupied the nfl has turned into a clown show
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 10:00 AM
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Oh shut up... It's fun, some of it is corny I'll give you that but most of the time it's just pure fun. You want everything to be conservative now? Live a little, because people die a lot.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 10:24 AM
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Low pulse=little insight. Keep watching and enjoy your moonpies
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Just don't watch the celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 10:29 AM
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if they bug you that much. Seriously... these guys are getting paid millions of dollars to play a game. They are constantly putting their mental and physical health on the line for our entertainment. If they want to do a crazy dance or celebration after they score a TD, then let them have fun. I didn't hear anybody on TNET complaining about Christian dancing shirtless like crazy after the natty or taking his shirt off during the parade. It's just about having fun. Stop being a scrooge.
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Orange Blooded [2371]
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Better yet, don't watch the NFL...
Dec 18, 2017, 7:23 PM
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I haven't watched a single game, and I really haven't missed it. It used to be all about football... now it's about anything but...
Go Tigers!
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 11:14 AM
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I think it's pretty neat to see what they come up with.
When the Steelers did the Hide and Go Seek celebration a few weeks back I found it incredibly clever, and funny.
It's a game, meant to be fun. Kids celebrate everyday on the playgrounds regardless of whether the NFL players do or not.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 11:24 AM
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I hear this job is still available. Maybe you should check it out.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 11:25 AM
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Not my style but I like it.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 12:04 PM
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I love seeing the players have fun. Like another poster said they put their bodies on the line every week for your entertainment and in return they get called inmates.....
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 12:32 PM
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Let's not bring up the inmates thing, while the owner shouldn't have said it he was in no way actually calling them criminals and anyone with common sense knows that.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 12:56 PM
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When we speak without thinking we say what we really think. The owner showed what his mindset is towards his players, and the ironic thing is he’s nothing without them. He can’t find NFL athletes in the unemployment line.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 1:52 PM
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First off, he wasn't speaking without thinking, he was using a saying that has been around for ages. However, when people take metaphors as literal is when you have the uproar that you saw.
Secondly, I think the owner would do just fine if he didn't have an NFL team, seeing as he had to be doing fine before owning the team in order to own said team. That being said if you think that if he doesn't own a NFL team he would be struggling is highly inaccurate.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 2:06 PM
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What's the NFL?
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 2:19 PM
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Just because a saying has been around for a while doesn't make it appropriate....
I'm sure he would do just fine personally doing something else, but the "business" he currently runs wouldn't without the players who are not just his slaves, but the product as well.
It's amazing how willing people are to overlook degrading statements from people in power but can't possibly look past a pair of socks that Kaepernick wore and get behind his message which at the root of it is a good one.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 2:36 PM
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There is nothing wrong with the saying he used, because it is not literal. For some reason people cannot grasp that concept.
If you think the only "business" he currently runs is the Texans, then you're mistaken. And I've never seen anyone call NFL players "slaves," but nice to know that is what you actually think he believes.
You actually agreed with me on the Kaep socks, so now you're using that as an argument over a metaphor? Also, people are behind Kaep's message, however, his delivery not so much.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 2:47 PM
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And what people who are against his delivery can't grasp is that the flag represents more than just our military....
It represents our constitution (which is what our ancestors fought for) that gives him the right to protest and it also represents our judicial system which has allowed cops to execute people in the streets and walk away scot free.
If they want to live in a country where citizens have no right to speak out about injustices in society they need to move to North Korea.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 3:10 PM
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Again, as plainly as I can say it, he has every right to protest and voice his opinion on social issues and by all means, put in some sweat equity to make it better.
J.T. Brown, a Tampa Bay Lightning hockey player, also spoke out against the injustice. Here's what he did:
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/hockey/lightning/lightnings-jt-brown-spent-day-with-tampa-police-heres-what-happened/2341175
Here is a long list of what NFL players/teams do for their communities:
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/9/29/16375378/nfl-players-charity-donations-jj-watt-hurricane-harvey-patrick-peterson-foundation
What did Kaepernick do? He knelt, wore socks with pigs dressed as policemen (disrespectful), wore a Fidel Castro shirt (wonder how the rights worked in Cuba when he was in power?). I also believe he gave away $100,000 10 times, equaling $1 million, which I thought was great. However, if he is just giving the money away then there is still the issue of him not actually putting in work to make the country a better place.
As I mentioned, he has every right to protest, speak his mind, etc. However, NFL teams are private entities and share the same right to not give employment, fans have the same right to disagree with him, and you have the right to agree with him and form your own opinion. The big issue is the people who agree with him not understanding that the people who do not have the same rights and get angry when they exercise them.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 3:39 PM
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What does a guy spending a day with a cop solve? Nobody is arguing that cops don't have a tough job. It's not a cop issue, it's a justice system issue. Cops are going to make bad decisions, and they should be punished for them, but we see time and time again where they are not held accountable. Our flag represents the system that allows that to happen.
Kaepernick did what a lot of people do, he reacted emotionally and went a little too far with the socks and shirt, but he had good intentions with his protest.
As for those who disagree having rights as well, yes they do, however that doesn't include calling for protesters to lose their jobs which is attempting to shut down THEIR RIGHTS. People like Jerry Jones and our PRESIDENT are the only ones spitting on the graves of veterans by going against the constitution they fought and died for and ironically the only person who has directly disrespected our military is Trump when he attacked a Vietnam Veteran.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 4:06 PM
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What does it solve? Maybe getting a different perspective on the issue and seeing the other side of things? It's putting in work to build a better relationship than just listening to the news every night and forming an opinion of "the way it is" when out in the real world you never hear the good side of the story.
Cops that make bad decisions should be punished, and many times they aren't. But until you know what they go through, or if you are actually at the scene of what happens you and I just don't know what happens because we aren't there and have never been in that position.
Kaepernick did react emotionally, however, when you're trying to lead a protest and enact change you don't get the option to be emotional. You have to be level headed the entire time or you give a negative impact to the cause you're working for.
Finally, while I do not agree that NFL players should lose their jobs due to the protest, the people calling for their jobs absolutely have the freedom of speech to do so. By calling for their jobs it is in no way taking away their rights. The majority of people in good health have the privilege to be employed, however, they do not have the right to a job.
Also with the NFL being in the private sector, those players also give up certain rights and liberties to be employed, voluntarily, by signing a contract.
Also, if you're referring to Trump attacking Blumenthal, the Senator from Connecticut, he is not a Vietnam Veteran and admitted so in 2010.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 4:32 PM
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Having a tough job doesn’t give you the right to execute someone in the street. But it’s happened time and time again....you would think that people would be more angry about that than what someone does during a song.
Firing someone for excercising their rights as Americans and doing so in the name of the country that stands for those rights is about as ignorant as it gets but that’s the type of person we elected and I was referring to him attacking John McCain who was a prisoner of war.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 4:39 PM
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Ffs, that's the point. In these cases you aren't there, so you don't know what happened as far as an "execution" in the street goes. But kneeling/sitting/not coming out for a #### song doesn't change anything at all. Giving money away to charities helps the charity for a while but doesn't enact change.
That's my whole point, good for him for going with what he believes but he hasn't done a #### thing to actually promote change in this country.
We can sit around and talk about it all day and base our opinions on what the national media talks about 24/7 but it doesn't mean that we actually know what happens/talking about it doesn't help anyone.
What people don't understand is that you have the freedom of speech, however, you don't have freedom of consequences for your freedom of speech. There have been countless people that were fired for saying things. There was an attorney for, I believe, CBS that tweeted out the Las Vegas attacks didn't bother her because "country music fans are often republican gun toters." She was fired, but she had freedom of speech right? Was CBS infringing on her rights?
As for Trump attacking McCain, we are in full agreement that was uncalled for and absolutely disgusting.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 5:01 PM
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> Ffs, that's the point. In these cases you aren't
> there, so you don't know what happened as far as an
> "execution" in the street goes. But
> kneeling/sitting/not coming out for a #### song
> doesn't change anything at all. Giving money away to
> charities helps the charity for a while but doesn't
> enact change.
The guy in Minnesota was reaching for his freaking ID and got a bullet put in his chest. There was cop cam footage of it. There was another cop just acquitted a couple weeks ago after shooting an unarmed man who was laying on the ground begging him not to shoot him. Kaepernick's protest was made to bring awareness to these kinds of situations and what better way to get everyone's attention than protest during the national anthem? Because when stuff like this happens it gets swept under the rug and forgotten.
> What people don't understand is that you have the
> freedom of speech, however, you don't have freedom of
> consequences for your freedom of speech. There have
> been countless people that were fired for saying
> things. There was an attorney for, I believe, CBS
> that tweeted out the Las Vegas attacks didn't bother
> her because "country music fans are often republican
> gun toters." She was fired, but she had freedom of
> speech right? Was CBS infringing on her rights?
Why should there be consequences for a man standing up for what's right? You would think the American public would be more outraged about a citizen being murdered and his killer walking away than what someone does during a stupid song.
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 2:43 PM
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I'm not even trying to be offensive when I say this, but it must suck to get offended as easily as some of you do. It's harmless celebrating over scoring a touchdown in a game.
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I'm offended***
Dec 18, 2017, 4:12 PM
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Re: Anyone enjoying the newfound NFL TD celebrations
Dec 18, 2017, 4:56 PM
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I love it. They look like they are having so much fun. And because the guys that make money off of the NFL but do nothing to make the money probably hate it, which makes me love it even more
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I like them celebrations.***
Dec 18, 2017, 5:00 PM
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I quit watching NFL years ago.
Dec 18, 2017, 7:26 PM
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Celebrations were stupid then and I imagine even stupider now.
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I quit watching NFL years ago.
Dec 18, 2017, 7:26 PM
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Celebrations were stupid then and I imagine even stupider now.
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