The NFL at last is recognizing the issues Colin Kaepernick was attempting to bring light to when he kneeled for the national anthem in 2016. It is supporting the cause with words, money and deeds — though the players aren’t convinced those deeds are having the impact sought. Still, the ...
saying “the latest strategy and tactic that they’re using is to try to undermine our free speech by taking it upon themselves to say they’ve got the responsibility to protect us from so called misinformation.” “The notion that we must just blindly accept...
Anyone remember when Roberto Aguayo lined up to boot a game-winning field goal against Carolina in Week 5 of the 2016 season and the Bucs kneeled together in a prayer circle on the sideline? Last year Succop was 2-7 from over 50. His seven attempts from that distance were the most in...
This was obviously not the case when then-President Trump called players who kneeled for social justice “sons of b---s” and demanded owners drag them off the field. NFL owners famously had a huge, panicked meeting to figure out how to deal with Trump and only really shed themselves o...
“shut up and dribble”and fundedcommunity programsandvoting rights initiativesin underprivileged neighborhoods. Perhaps the most visible athlete activist of our era, former 49er Colin Kaepernick,steadfastly kneeledduring the national anthem in protest of police violence toward Black Americans. Kaepern...
showed support to another NBA player Stephen Curry who refused the invitation to the White House.3 Similarly, baseball player Bruce Maxwell from the Oakland Athletics mirrored the protests by NFL players against racial injustice and kneeled during the national 1What's taking the knee and why is ...
A month later, the president of the United States gave a speech in Huntsville, Alabama, near Maxwell's hometown, calling any NFL player who kneeled in protest of police violence a "son of a bitch." Maxwell had only a year of service time in the big leagues, but history waits f...
why not ASK myself or my teammates what our end goals and purposes are. ITS THAT SIMPLE. A woman came up to my teammates and I while we were at dinner last night and politely asked us, “I just want to know if your taking a knee means you don’t support our...
Here's a timeline of Colin Kaepernick's pro football and post-NFL days since he first kneeled during "The Star-Spangled Banner" •Aug. 26, 2016: During the anthem before a Packers-49ers preseason game, Kaepernick sits on the San Francisco bench. Kaepernick says he sat because the country...
passes, and each time North Central responded. DeAngelo Hardy's 60-yard catch and run brought the Cardinals to within one with 1:20 left, but the Red Dragons stuffed quarterback Luke Lehnen on a 2-point conversion attempt, recovered the ensuing onside kick and kneeled out a national title...