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The NFL, having been terribly shamed by professional football players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem to protest systemic police violence, will be putting a stop to it. Incompetent rich boob Roger Goodell announced the policy in a statement claiming to sympathize with protesters but nonetheless announcing that from now on, protesters can either stay in the locker room or face “discipline” from the league for doing otherwise.
2.The Game Operations Manual will be revised to remove the requirement that all players be on the field for the Anthem.
3. Personnel who choose not to stand for the Anthem may stay in the locker room or in a similar location off the field until after the Anthem has been performed.
4. A club will be fined by the League if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem.
The new guidelines promise unspecified “appropriate discipline” on league personnel who “do not stand and show respect” during the playing of the Official ‘Merica Song. One imagines it will be considerably more severe than the penalties the league imposes for teams selling access to nude cheerleader photo shoots to the highest bidders or, say, fleecing taxpayers across America for new stadiums that team owners pocket all subsequent profits from.
That’s our new conservative America: Enforced patriotism or else. They must have learned it from China.