The msm polls in Pittsburgh tonight on tv showed that 71% of Steeler fans in Pittsburgh will be boycotting the Steeler games after all players except one decided to hide in the locker room during the national anthem. I'm one of them.
Some may view this as a big to-do about nothing or overreactive by us fans but it goes much deeper than just a game with a few insignificant players taking a knee. Or as they define it 'freedom of speech'. America has been through alot of emotional turmoil throughout Obama's presidency and this disrespecting our flag/anthem is simply the last straw from people who are tired of being maligned and our citzenry manipulated for the past 8 years. And especially tired of the fake news that there is 'systemic' racism in America. We've all seen the statistics that DISPROVE this. More whites killed by cops than blacks even though significantly more blacks commit most of the crimes. Black on black crime dwarfs cop on black crime yet we never see a knee taken for that, do we?. You can spout real facts that show this racism narrative as false but it doesn't matter. It's real in the perception of the Liberal mind and that seems to be all that matters to them & msm.
Take the NFL itself! If the problem was racism (as these lame knee taking players say it is) then how does it make sense that 'before' Kapernick leading the pack in this show of so-called freedom of speech/anti-American flag knee action began, tell me why all these now supposed racists (we NFL fans & Trump supporters) lavishly SUPPORTED all these players (75% who are black) by going to games, buying their merchandise and basically holding these players up as Gods etc which enabled them to make these million dollar salaries? We weren't bigots then but we are now?
And how can you blame Trump when he wasn't even president when Kapernick took his knee months ago which at the time ticked us off then as much as it does now? We watched as more and more BLM violence led to shootings of cops (because they were white) but the Dallas Cowboys were told NO when they wanted to express 'their' free speech in support of those fallen officers with a small sticker on their helmets. We put up with the destruction of our cities & businesses while BLM/Antifa rallies turned violent against again, this so-called police brutality 'against blacks' yet find out that the 'hands up, don't shoot' narrative (that created the protests in the first place) was a LIE! Never happened. Sure, the CRIMINAL got shot, and he was black, but the important fact that he was trying to kill the cop with the cop's own gun conveniently got magically transformed by msm into the guy was cooperating & had his arms up in compliance with the cop's orders. DIDN'T HAPPEN! This type of deciept has been going on for years now and many Americans are done with it. We could work together on issues 'if' people were honest about them and not blowing things out of proportion with political scams & lies. Problems can be solved. But not by maligning innocent people with manufactured character assasinations as has been happening.
All we're saying is that if you believe in this manufactured narrative about systemic racism the fine, go freegin picket a police station. You want to help black communities? Stop voting for DEMOCRATS whose Socialist policies have produced THE poorest, THE most crime ridden and THE worst school systems in America! You can look that fact up too. Every city in America run by Democrats is in the top failing in all aspects. We don't have a race problem. We have a Leftist policy problem!
So when you show disrespect for our flag/anthem, the symbols of our military and the freedom that those symbols represent, you are NOT standing up for unity or black lives or free speech. You are simply showing your ignorance. Trump did not create this division YOU are. And we are simply, like you feel you are doing, expressing OUR free speech in condemning you for it. You want to choose to infuse political agendas into the games in a divisive way so be it. The fans who pay your salary don't feel inclined to do so anymore.
You do it to yourselves in your cities with Leftist policies. Now you do it to yourselves with Leftist anti-American actions. Good-bye NFL. Good-bye million dollar salaries? Maybe your Democrat welfare loving buddies can throw you some bones as you stand in the unemployment lines....🤔
Oh and btw. Looks like you all caught the attention of Congress too. I hear there's a bill floating around to disallow Federal taxpayer money to pay for those wonderful stadiums. Bet cha didn't think about that one before taking the knees did you? Yep. You reap what you sow. And this you need to realize is entirely YOUR doing, not Trump's and not systemic racism. It's called Americans tired of the chaotic bullshit!