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**Robby321** · 01-01-2017, 04:05 PM

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.

**transomstand** · 01-01-2017, 04:22 PM

Unfortunately as a conservative I must support the athlete's right to act in a reprehensible manner and be a complete asshole.

I do fully agree the commissioner should require a respectful standard of behavior by his players, but he's far too busy screwing up investigations and falsely convicting players of rules violations.

**Robby321** · 01-01-2017, 07:36 PM

Pete, I agree with ya but its such a "cry baby/childish" way do "protest" that makes me ill. As a Nam Vet, the "Flag/Anthem" has a lot of meaning me. Kinda seen it all life, still trucking (bit slower now as be 67 this June), but too me the meat of that post (saw on FB) was the "real heroes" All gave some, some gave all". Lost 2 friends in Nam, Flag covered pine box home. Been funerals of WW2, Korea, Nam Vets with a Flag over the coffin.

That said, I really care less what the idiots do. Not a football freak either, cause if aint drag racing, it's just playing with yer balls. But 49's QB idiot, has it all in life started it. But "Karma" got his dumb ass. Great FB record as lost 13 on the last games.

BREAKING NEWS! Seahawks played the "girlie boys SF" today and make that 49'ers now lost 14 in a row!

Anyway, this part is that kinda got me going, as I made a a extra DOLLAR a day Nam, "Combat" pay. Be well Pete, and watch out "for the wascally wabbit"

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.

Me now on "Karma"? Its basic "condensed 10 Commandments".
and "whats goes around, comes around".
Thinking Alvin Lee's last album (Back in Tennessee, played with the best too!) Think political "bozo an the blond"? Think all the slugs in life with zero respect the USA, and what it..(OK US) offer not good'nuff? RIP Alvin.."now at home"

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