If you’ve already kept your fantasy football draft, you’ve wasted your time.
That is, at least according to Eric Trump, the son of US President Donald Trump, who tweeted on Monday night that “football.l is officially dead.”
The inspiration for the tweet was reports that Dallas Cowboys players have been given a “green light” to protest.
After such reports came back defensively, Tyrone Crawford said the green light “experiences however we feel, expresses how we feel and says what needs to be said.”
Team owner Jerry Jones also said last week that NFL players “need the help of a majority of Americans” when it comes to respecting players’ protests.
In the four years since Colin Copernicus first staged a wave of protests against racial injustice and police brutality, no Dallas Cowboys player has knelt during the national anthem.
“Football Football is officially dead – so much for ‘America’s game.’ Goodbye NFL … I’m gone, “Eric Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Appearing on a Dallas radio station on Friday, 105.3 Fans, Jones turned his tone on the protesting players during the national anthem, urging fans to respect the fact that the players’ opinions differ.
“That’s the great thing about America: everyone is different,” Jones said. “If our players are there, they are sensitive and respectful of what America has to do with the flag. I assure you. I hope our fans – and I think they will – understand that our players have issues that they need help with. They need the help of the majority of Americans. “
In an interview on former NFL player Emanuel Aco’s social media video series “Inconvenient Conversations with Black Men”, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expressed frustration at the peaceful protests by league players.
“What our players are doing is being abused. These are not people who are not patriots. They are not traitors. They are not against our military.” “What they were trying to do was exercise their right to focus on what needed to be fixed. The thing that misrepresented who they were and what they were doing was something that really hit me. Took over. “
In 2017, Trump slammed NFL players during the national anthem for protesting during the national anthem, when he urged team owners to fire players. The comments asked to show league-wide unity.
There is no doubt that recent incidents of police brutality against black people will protest during the national anthem during the 2020 NFL season.
Jeffrey Lury, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, has the potential that NFL players could stage a protest that would shut down similar games established with the NBA, WNBA, MLS, NHL and some MLB teams.
“I’m not worried because I’m supportive of everything that’s involved in terms of trying to bring attention and change.” Luri said last week. “I’ve always been that way. And if we want to sacrifice, we have to sacrifice.”
