Spoken like a true.... someone that has never served their country in uniform OR held a job where you are constantly viewed as the face of an organization.
They should have dropped his azz the first time he did it but I am sure Goodell was consulted and didn't want a lawsuit!!
Why didn't they drop him then? The 49ers organization didn't call you for your input?
His bosses (coach and GM) allowed this to go on. He didn't allow it to affect the game itself. He wasn't kneeling during huddles, he wasn't stopping the game to make a statement. He used his personal twitter (you know, the same thing Trump is doing) to make his statements. He used his time with the media to make statements. He didn't do anything to change how the game is played.
You want to blame someone/something? Blame the media. Blame a body of people/entities who were so enamored with his story that they wouldn't stop reporting on it 24/7.
If you start politicking at your job, you're not working for your employer, the company or organization you are representing, and you are subject to punitive measures.
Are you really not capable of seeing that?
He kneeled during the anthem. He used personal social media accounts, and his personal time with the media to state what he believes in.
Had he come out and said "The state of California has some of the worst gun laws in the nation" all you same people would be loving him. But since his stance isn't one
you agree with, he's the bad guy who isn't allowed to have any sort of identity outside of simply being a football player.
Oh boo hoo hoo. #### him. He was supposed to be doing a job and went out of his way to offend and run off the customers. Would your boss allow that?
What he does on his own time is his business; what he does at work reflects on his employer.
What part of his job wasn't he doing? Was he not showing up at practice? Refusing to be apart of the team? Refusing to throw the ball?
Really? You've never been drug tested to get a job?
Nope. Never.
Kapernick was though. It was part of the contract one signs with their employer. Was there some part of his contract that said he wasn't allowed to kneel during the national anthem?
Exercising your right on your own time and place of business is of your own choosing. Exercising your right while representing someone else is not exactly the best thing to do. Are you allowed to do anything you damned well pleased at your place of employment in the name of exercising your right? Probably not.
1. Goodell should have met with him and explained that he was affecting the image of the NFL and the NFL wasn't his personal soapbox.
2. Goodell should have gone to all of the networks and told them not to show any players exercising their right. They don't show the idiots that run onto the field during the game so as to not give that person their "15 minutes of fame"...why should the NFL highlight these players and give them a stage.
3. If I were the coach, I would have said "you want to kneel during the anthem, then you have to kneel for the entire game...and kneel for the entire practices".
4. If I were the GM, I would have removed him from the active roster as to not further the distraction.
So now we've gone from kneeling to "doing anything you damn well please"? C'mon. Propping up strawmen and wild comparisons only lessens the argument.
The thing is, you aren't the coach. You aren't the GM. You aren't in any position to do anything about Kapernick other than not watch their games or not buy his merchandise. That's how a free marklet system works in a country where people have freedoms. I don't have to like what someone says or does. When I don't like it, I don't encourage it by feeding ratings or buying merchandise.
Its amazing how many of these leftist loons have never worked for anyone.
It's amazing how much you think you know.
Seriously, just stop. You're going down a 15 year old boy path here that is unbecoming for an adult.
Would your boss allow you to stand up in a meeting and scream that all black people should die and use a bunch of racial slurs? If not, why not? Isn't that curtailing your "free speech"?
The ole' "15 year old" schtick again? You know, just because you don't agree with me or others doesn't mean you have to hurl insults.
"This argument isn't one I agree with, so I'm going to simply call it and you stupid. I'm going to take the imaginary high road by placing you beneath me in my own mind."
Speaking of dumb ass arguments, did Kaeprnick do what you just said?
Regardless, I've certainly made my personal feelings known during meetings and interactions with other employees. They may not agree with me, and I may not agree with them, but as I've said to them, "I say this because I feel this company values and respects individual employee's beliefs and views.", but I'm not about to compare Kapernick to someone standing up in a meeting talking about how black people should die and racial slurs. That's a completely ridiculous comparison and surprising coming from someone who consistely likes to point out the ####tyness of other people's arguments.
His Avatar needs to be revoked for fraud.
Yea, because Libertarians
totally don't believe in free speech.
Do you get to exercise your rights at your place of employment? Do you get to espouse your religious or political views to your customers or fellow employees during working hours? Sure there will likely always be some office talk on a variety of subjects amongst workers, but those conversations shouldn't spill over and involve customers.
As for contractual requirements...I think the standard sports contract have language essentially discussing conduct detrimental to the team. It's probably pretty wide open for interpretation so something like kneeling during the anthem could be something the team (if it chose to) might consider to be detrimental. Its obvious the 49ers either endorse his actions or didn't think they were detrimental to their team.
See above.
Your last statement sums it up. The people in charge of making the decisions for the 49ers apparently value freedom of speech more than the handfull of "freedom lovers" here in little ole' southern mer'land.
A thing forgotten about that whole 1st amendment right is that there might be consequences for your exercising it.
That's the beauty of this country, ain't it?
