Jerry Jones: Cowboys will require players to stand for anthem, not remain in locker room
Source: USA Today
Amid a pause in the NFL's implementation of a new policy regarding the national anthem and players' decisions to protest during the song, one owner appears to be going his own way.
Jerry Jones said Wednesday the Dallas Cowboys will not support players who choose to remain in the locker room for The Star-Spangled Banner rather than standing on the field.
Our policy is you stand during the anthem, toe on the line," Jones said in a press conference.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2018/07/25/jerry-jones-nfl-anthem-players-protest-dallas-cowboys/836464002/
jpak
(41,741 posts)America's team my ass.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)AZ8theist
(5,338 posts)All he did was shove his disgusting mug in front of any camera he could find on 9/11.
He was DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for 343 Firefighters dying on 9/11 due to his petty vindictive administration that withheld funds for advanced communications gear for the NYFD.
Fuck him to all hell. He is the epitome of UNAMERICAN GARBAGE.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)A bunch of sanctimonious shitheads. "America's Team", my ass.
Fuck the Dallas Cowboys. My two favorite teams this upcoming season are the Seattle Seahawks and any team that is playing the Dallas Cowboys.
scarletlib
(3,400 posts)Ever since they started calling themselves "America's Team" back in the days of Landry and Staubach I have been 100% opposed to them. How arrogant of them.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)teams that seek to deny NFL players their 1st Amendment right to free speech.
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)Sorry, Texas DUers, but this cretin is a Trump appeaser through and through.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)The only way a kneeling protest works is if every player does it, and the players' association has to back them.
Just looked at the Dallas roster. If I counted right, 34 (of 53) players are African-American. I think what Jerry Jones wanted to say was, toe the line, boy.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2017/08/28/dak-prescott-tempted-protest-national-anthem-take-freedom-granted
He is African-American, incidentally, and the face of the franchise.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)I think maybe Jerry Jones is the one.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Leave it to the freaking cowboys to crap all over the concept of freedom of expression. This NY Giant's fan is properly disgusted. OUR owner has said no players will be punished for anything.
http://time.com/5345445/new-york-giants-owner-players-kneel-national-anthem/
Paladin
(28,202 posts)Keep them handy, Air Force One could taxi into DFW Airport at any time.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts). . .until JJ leaves. Fuck him and his family.
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Got sooooo sick of that "America's team" horse shit,Dallas cowboy cheerleaders specials seemingly every week on TV. Cowboys this,cowboys that blah,blah,blah.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Joe Nation
(961 posts)Jones is a disgraceful bigot. Let's see how many black players want to play for him in the future.
jayschool2013
(2,309 posts)Jones played college football on an all-white Arkansas team in the early 1960s. Apropos of little other than he's a good ol' boy from the Old South.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)Not have a football game?
chillfactor
(7,566 posts)would be a marvelous tribute to black players if dallas had to forfeit a game because of the bigoted asinine owner.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)And not pay the players for it.
Fine the players.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)For a cancelled game. Ad revenue etc.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)walkingman
(7,507 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)If and when his star players have to sit out crucial games because they defied his policy, Jones' patriotism will disappear faster than a two dollar bill at a gypsy convention. Merchandise is another major means of income. Money has a way of evolving the minds of people like Jerry Jones.
Also, if the Cowboys are seen as a less than desirable team to play for, top players will opt out when given the chance unless he ups the salaries. In that case, refer to the original rule about evolving minds.
JDC
(10,081 posts)AZ8theist
(5,338 posts)WORST owner in NFL history.
However, he's THE BEST General Manager EVER for the Cowpukes. Didn't he tell you that? Multiple times?
Racerdog1
(808 posts)These players can make you or break you dumb fuck. We are not slaves working in your cotton fields dummy. You may own the franchise, players are the team.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Freethinker65
(9,929 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)I do support the Hawks but other than that football sucks and now even more.
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)What's keeping that asshole alive, anyway? It's certainly not "good, clean living".
Every time I hear someone call them "America's Team" I want to vomit.
BumRushDaShow
(127,289 posts)then you start digging down into the garbage disposal and tossing whatever is gunked up there.
And my final note to the 'Boys -
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)dameatball
(7,380 posts)mn9driver
(4,412 posts)Not.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)I'd kneel and then if sanctioned by Jones, file suit on the basis that being forced to stand for the national anthem is a form of idolatry and violates my deeply held religious beliefs.
Throw religious freedom back in these right winger's faces.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)winner
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I thought they could act like a team and all call in sick on game day. Done twice, owner will crumble.
MichMan
(11,784 posts)Causing loss in revenues to both the players and the team and also incur the anger of the fans and other players who didn't agree with the sick out
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)AL of your facebook and any social media, recordings and written items would be used to prove that you lied. Then you would get fired.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)still_one
(91,945 posts)against Dallas, Landry, couldnt understand how god let gods team lose against that sin city
A bunch of hypocritical right wing assholes have been running the Cowboys for a long time
Dr Vegas
(456 posts)and they can wear one black glove, make a fist and hold it over their heart during the anthem.
Let's see how many people will get it and if there is a NEW outrage over that gesture.
or they can march out of the locker room and sing this:
Imagine a whole stadium singing along to this...,
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Every 1st string player should band together and call that assholes bluff!
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Is gonna tee off on them
In NFL parlance it's called bulletin board material
spike jones
(1,654 posts)Stand but turn your back to the flag.
BTW F**k Dallas too. Dallas will never be anything but the redneck cowboy town that killed Kennedy.
IncaRoads
(97 posts)Yep! Fuck Dallas, man.
And fuck their awfully planned road construction and the state of Texas' shitty toll system in general.
Biden My Time
(87 posts)Easily one of the dumbest rituals in the country.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Learned it on NPR.
The tradition of playing the anthem started in professional baseball games during WWI. People were a bit angered by physically fit men playing a game while soldiers were dying on the battlefield in Europe.
To turn the tide of bad public relations, the teams would invite Civil War veterans (yes, there were plenty back then -- they even came to my school when I was a kid) to the game.
They would play the anthem and ask everyone to honor the Union veterans and the sacrifice they made so slavery could end.
Archae
(46,260 posts)The fans.
All the other NFL teams have dictators like Jones in charge.
Jones plays with his team like a little boy toys with GI Joes.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Does anyone else have to listen to an anthem before work every day?
What's the point besides propaganda?
This G.B. owner votes to dump the militaristic crap before my Packers play!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)When freedom of speech and expression is taken away, there is nothing left of the team.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)Watch the Cowboys until JJ is gone. I know others throwing any of their Cowboys gear away, and won't attend any more games. This will backfire on JJ and putin and trump.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)And others I know likewise and throwing away their gear. Not until JJ is gone for backing putin and trump.
MichMan
(11,784 posts)scarletlib
(3,400 posts)the players could end this nonsense by all uniting as one and all staying the the locker room during the anthem. I would like to see the owner then suspend them all. Wouldn't work out too well for said owners.
BaileyBill
(170 posts)they served their country (Landry flew 30 B-17 missions in WWII). Jones is a total match for Trump, never serving anyone but himself. Grew up in Dallas in the Dandy Don era, but refuse to watch anymore.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)that drink and munch on everything while our sacred anthem is playing get booted out of the stadium??? Oh wait...those are a load of big buck paying good ole' boys and WHITE to boot!!