ROGER GOODELL EXPOSES HIS AND THE NFL’S HYPOCRISY

Goodell announces the NFL has a policy for players to stand at attention during the anthem, but they will not be required to do so

BarkGrowlBite
October 19, 2017

On Wednesday NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made a profound announcement. He let the world know that the NFL has a policy that requires players to stand at attention during the playing of the National Anthem. He said the NFL believes in respecting our flag and country and that everyone should stand during the anthem. But in the next breath Goodell said the league would not require its players to stand during the anthem. He praised the players who were taking a knee or otherwise sitting out the anthem for becoming active on social issues.

What a phony, what a hypocrite, what a sorry example of a sports executive! In enforcing the league’s player uniform policies, Goodell has fined players for wearing colored cleats (shoes) to call attention to one good cause or another. He fined 49ers Frank Gore $10,500 for wearing his socks too low. He fined players for putting inscriptions on their eye black. Goodell threatened to fine players who wanted to wear special cleats honoring the 9/11 victims. And the sorry bastard prohibited the Cowboys from attaching a decal on the team helmets in honor of the five Dallas police officers who were assassinated by a Black Lives Matter-inspired thug.

Players fined for wearing colored shoes or wearing their socks too low, but not for disrespecting our flag and country. Players threatened with fines for trying to honor the 9/11 victims. The Cowboys prohibited from honoring five slain Dallas cops. But players will be allowed to break the NFL policy on standing at attention for the anthem. Proclaiming the league’s policy on patriotism is nothing more than a shit load of the NFL’s hypocrisy.

You readers know that I blame Goodell for this whole kneeling and now mass disrespect for our flag and country. Instead of kicking Colin Kaepernick out of the NFL, or at least fining him, Godell prai9sed the son-of-a-bitch for taking a stand against police brutality. Thus Goodell in effect encouraged the other players to also disrespect our flag and country. Had he fined Kaepernick, none of this shit would now be happening because money talks, bullshit walks.

By extolling the virtues of patriotism while not requiring NFL players to follow the NFL policy on standing at attention for the anthem, Goodell has exposed himself as the hypocritical leader of a hypocritical sports league.