NFL protesting the flag
Received August 2017
I don’t think this could have been said any better and it definitely is
about time someone said it. Hopefully, this will go out over EVERY
computer in the U.S. and maybe, just maybe, these sports people will get
the message of just how ridiculous they are to disrespect our flag, and
how little what they do in sports compare to what our great military has
done for this country.
Ret. Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the
following:
Commissioners,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the
Giants Stadium.
I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in
Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American
Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one
of them, Sgt. Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to
the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or
for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped
over their coffins.
Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their
lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died
for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of
real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside
playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re
not! My Marines and Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this! You’ll fine players for large and small
infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation
and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this. Yes, I know, it’s their
1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.
What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs
publicly?
I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone
after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and
our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express
himself like an idiot in the end zone?
Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine players
for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines
to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so
deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a
freaking game!
You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and
disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who
supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when
any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on
the sidelines. I applaud those who have not.
Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and
carry rifles.
They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their
families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it 24/7 often
with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their
brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced.
They don’t even have ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.
Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.
They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to
safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that
mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in
your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!
Time to change the channel.
Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida congressman Allen
West. West then posted the letter to his news website.
As of last week, at least 18 NFL player had protested the anthem by
either kneeling during the anthem or raising their fists, according to
USA Today Sports.