The Patriots Lost on Sunday

...and lost big.

Sixteen of their number, players James White, Alan Branch, Brandin Cooks, Devin McCourty, , Lawrence Guy, Trey Flowers, Elandon Roberts, Duron Harmon, Jonathan Jones, Deatrich Wise, Johnson Bademosi, Adam Butler, Malcom Brown, Malcolm Butler, Stephone Gilmore, and Jordan Richards, chose to intentionally show disrespect to our flag and our country by kneeling in protest during the National Anthem. What were they protesting? Racial injustice, supposedly. (You see, it is considered de rigueur by the far-left to denigrate the United States and everything about it, because in their views it fails to be the perfect utopia they have constructed in their heads.)

Of course, most of this was done in response to President Trump's pointed remarks condemning such behavior, in which he called for NFL owners to fire players who showed such disrespect (former QB Colin Kaepernick first started this crap in its current form). While Trump used questionable wisdom in making his remarks (he is the President, not a candidate), and while it is certainly true that such protest is legal free expression, the players kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem of the freest nation in the history of mankind, in order to protest "racial injustice", are rich, spoiled, and ignorant hypocrites.

If "black lives matter" so damned much, why haven't those sixteen players gone into Chicago or Baltimore or St. Louis and employed some of that self-congratulatory courage to put an end to the gang and drug violence, and the overwhelming cause of deaths of young blacks. Which is, of course, being murdered by other blacks. Nearly every black person murdered in this country is killed by another black person. To the tune of 93%. Blacks are, according to the Justice Department, responsible for better than half of the murders committed in this country between 1980 and 2008, despite being slightly less than 12% of the population during that time. Self-described "team leader" Devin McCourty? You go first. Put up or shut up.

You see, the men and women who serve the country and the flag you protest while making your millions, do just those sorts of things. They go into places that are terribly dangerous and they risk their lives every day to defend the innocent. Save me the bullshit about this not being about money, either. The sixteen players that showed such disrespect? They are paid more, on average, as INDIVIDUALS (not counting endorsements) every month than a USMC Rifle Platoon earns in that same month in Iraq or Afghanistan. Nearly twice as much, in fact. For playing a game the rest of us played for the love of it. Perhaps one of those sixteen could use his millions to fly to Sangin and tell the Lance Corporal walking a combat patrol in the 110-degree heat all about his "white privilege".

Were I to possess a magic wand, I would wave it over the sixteen assholes mentioned above. Then, they could learn about real discrimination. Some would become Copts in Egypt, being burned alive inside their Church by the same Muslim Brotherhood that Barack Obama invited to the State Department over and over again. Or they could suddenly find themselves as ethnic Kurds in Saddam's Iraq, seeing themselves and wives and children buried alive by the Iraqi security forces. Or they could be ethnic Poles, enslaved and starving, being worked to death in an Arbeitslager in Germany or a Gulag in the Soviet Union. Or an Armenian without food or water or hope, on the death march across the Syrian desert. Then, perhaps, they could have a taste of what hate and discrimination truly is. But none of them know, not even a little. Instead, they play a game for great deal of money and are treated like celebrities, simply because they possess physical talents given them by God.

As for owner Robert Kraft, fuck you. You are supposed to be the adult in the room. When those players wear that uniform, in that stadium, they work for YOU. They show such disrespect to our flag and our Anthem because you condone and approve of it. Your players are not "intelligent" or "thoughtful". They are ignorant, arrogant, spoiled children. If they were intelligent and thoughtful, they would understand, in some small way, that they should kiss the ground in front of them, and thank their God they were born into this time and this place. Into the freest nation ever on earth, bought and paid for by those who fought and died for their liberties, to end slavery and oppose tyranny. None of those terrible things mentioned above will happen to your players, because better people than they will lay down their lives to prevent it. Men and women for whom the flag and Anthem your players have shown such contempt for represents anything but injustice.

The cascade of boos from people who paid their hard-earned money for a ticket yesterday showed that they understand, even if your players don't. One would think you might have the spine to teach them. Or tell them. Stand your asses up and respect your country and your flag. But you don't have that courage or that spine.

The score of the game was immaterial. The Patriots lost. Perhaps they should consider a name change for the franchise. URR here.

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A bunch of spoiled brats. I refuse to watch them, or buy their junk anymore.

Posted by: Quartermaster | 09/25/2017 at 05:12 AM

Fuck. Them. All.

If we have a racial problem in the US, lets make it a *real* racial problem and be done with it. I"m sick of this horseshit.

Posted by: Krag | 09/25/2017 at 05:17 AM

Agree with all of your points without hesitation. I might add that when it comes to utopia, if the Shakers couldn't do it I dare say no modern human(s) can. Last night I watched a documentary on a river in Ireland, NOT the Sunday night NFL game.

Posted by: SFC Dunlap 173d RVN | 09/25/2017 at 05:56 AM