Burgess Owens Won't Stand for Colin Kaepernick's Kneeling

[JonLP24]

Burgess Owens, a former NFL safety who played for the New York Jets, says he is prepared to stop watching the league because of Commissioner Roger Goodell’s recent lobbying for the return of Colin Kaepernick and the sanctioning of player protests during the national anthem.

“If Goodell allows Kaepernick to come back, if they allow players to kneel during the national anthem, I’m willing to not watch the game,” Owens, who is Black and Republican, told Sports Illustrated’s JetCountry.com.

“The only thing that can change the league is to change commissioners. This has been going on way too long, it is four years of this mess.”

Owens, who spent 10 years between the Jets and Oakland Raiders, currently is running for Congress in Utah on a platform of family values. He is one of the few prominent former Black players who is siding with President Donald Trump on the issue of NFL players protesting social issues during the national anthem.

https://www.si.com/.amp-jets/nfl/jets/news/ny-jets-burgess-owens-wont-stand-for-colin-kaepernick

[Nevilledog]

1. Never heard of him.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Ooo, he's gonna stop watching the league. That'll teach them! 😂

[Nevilledog]

30. I know, right?

[rownesheck]

36. Me neither.

Maybe he kept the benches warm for all the actual players for those 10 years.

[newsboy]

39. He was the real deal.... MIami HOF / Ring of Honor /part of Black History

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Played w him. a great college player who at Miami broke many color barriers along w Chuck Forman of Vikings fame,.  He was one yr behind the Black Miami player Ray Bellamy to be FIRST to play at Alabama among other SEC venues. Now they allow blacks to play in even the south. He was a very good Pro-Bowl NFL player as well.   Thought a great deal of all three, it took courage to face even death threats as Miami played on as an Major Independent

He lost me when I heard him on radio... perhaps w Shameful Hanity saying the NAACP was founded by socialists and 'commies' out to to further enslave blacks.

He must have sleep through history 101

NAACP The Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and President Abraham Lincoln's hometown, was a catalyst showing the urgent need for an effective civil rights organization in the U.S. In the decades around the turn of the century, the rate of LYNCHINGS OF BLACKS , particularly men, was at an all-time high.  

Utah is a good place for him ,,,,,, maybe find the gold plates??

[Nevilledog]

40. Perhaps he was a good player. Unfortunately, he doesn't sound like a good man.

[newsboy]

41. Slow to judge a true pioneer...Confused I think ... and Utah would confuse ANYBODY further

that i would judge

[Nevilledog]

42. Hopefully he'll come to his senses.

[Skittles]

2. oh FUCK his sanctimonious ass

republicans are SICKENING *NO MATTER WHAT THEIR COLOR*

[a kennedy]

21. and damn, I swear to gawd.......it IS SICKENING "NO MATTER WHAT COLOR"

[Skittles]

23. seriously, I hear about POC repukes

but THANKFULLY I have never met such a person in real life

[Blue Owl]

3. He that guy who played the Penguin on Batman?

n/t

[Nevilledog]

31. That would be Burgess Meredith.

[JI7]

4. Sounds like he wants a pat on the head from white racists

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Called Colin a Marxist...

[sdfernando]

6. fine...don't watch any games.....oh, and who the fuck are you? /nt

[pamdb]

7. WHO?

I'm sorry, who cares, or would even know, whether he watches or not?

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. I'm sure the NFL will have to shut down cuz this

one jerk won’t watch.

[MagickMuffin]

9. Concussions are a hell of an injury

One to many times and you turn into a doofus.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Too bad...he was one of my favorite players as a kid

Playmaking safety and kick blocker for the Canes way back in the Chuck Foreman era.

He was never as good as expected in the pros, although he had a long career.

I had no idea he turned out this way. But I guarantee this is being celebrated on CanesInsight, which is loaded with right wing morons who feel exactly the same way he does.

[electric_blue68]

11. Waaahhh...

[sakabatou]

12. Owens is a tool.

[Under The Radar]

13. If the NFL loses all Black Republican support, what have they lost?

[stillcool]

14. Ego much?

ah...Republican. Of course. Self-important, arrogant, asshole.

[Penn Voter]

15. I remember him

from his playing days with the Jets. Never lived up to his NFL draft position. He is running on a platform of family values and siding with Trump. That is hilarious!

[Marrah_Goodman]

16. No one cares. Burgess.

[Firestorm49]

17. Boo hoo

[FreeState]

18. But apparently has no problems with Brigham Young

“ Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so. The nations of the earth have transgressed every law that God has given, they have changed the ordinances and broken every covenant made with the fathers, and they are like a hungry man that dreameth that he eateth, and he awaketh and behold he is empty.…”

http://mit.irr.org/brigham-young-on-race-later-comments

And that’s just one of 100s of quotes.

I’ll never understand how any black person could believe in Mormonism.

[we can do it]

19. Who cares?

[regnaD kciN]

22. What's a "Burgess Owens"...?

[LakeArenal]

24. Okay! You sure showed us!!!

[Jirel]

25. Please do.

We hope the door hits your ass on the way out.

[tulipsandroses]

26. Bye Felicia!

Nobody cares if you stop watching

[LuckyCharms]

27. Wow, I thought Buck Owens had passed away.

[LiberalFighter]

28. Who?

[redstateblues]

29. I'm an avid and I've never heard of him

[onecaliberal]

32. Just leave. Who cares.

[JonLP24]

34. Not sure what you mean by leave

I thought the story was hilarious especially the affirmative action for a Marxist line. One poster seemed to find it hilarious. I appreciate Awsi Dooger's comment from a Canes fan perspective.

When I don't care about a story I skip it.

[onecaliberal]

38. The guy, he said he would basically leave the game.

Not you! 🤷‍♀️

[spanone]

33. These idiots need to educate themselves, they can't be as stupid as they're willing to look.

[Iggo]

35. Oh no! Whatever will we do?

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And of course the obligatory: Who?

(Shh...He's trolling for votes.)

[StarfishSaver]

37. Who?

[roamer65]

43. Who fucking cares what he thinks.

FUCK OWENS. FUCK TRUMP.

[newsboy]

44. George Floyd mural in Salt Lake City vandalized a second time aahhh UTAH

A mural depicting a portrait of George Floyd was defaced early Sunday with tar.

This is the second time it has happened, one of its artists said, and Salt Lake City police are investigating, according to police spokesman Greg Wilking.

The mural — which features Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police; Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, who was fatally shot by Salt Lake City police on May 23; and four other people killed by police in Utah — was painted on a building at 300 West and 800 South in Salt Lake City.

Black goo was splattered on the painting, concealing one of Floyd’s eyes and dripping down the length of his face. Floyd’s portrait was also the target last Sunday, the first time the mural was vandalized, one of the artists said.

[Sunsky]

45. Who?

And who cares what he (one man) chooses to watch or not?