glad you appreciate it.
if you mean, it takes one to know one, i accept that, as well.
glad you appreciate it.
Really mild comments from the NFL that doesn't align with the accusations about them in the OP.Commissioner Roger Goodell declined Wednesday to expand on the NFL’s statement distancing the league from comments made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker during a commencement address at a private Catholic college in Kansas.
“We have over 3,000 players,” Goodell said as the NFL concluded its spring meetings. “We have executives around the league that have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just like America does. I think that’s something that we treasure, and that’s part of, I think, ultimately what makes us as a society better.”
Their original statement was nothing more than this:Szdfan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:00 pm https://www.kget.com/sports/ap-commissi ... on-butker/Really mild comments from the NFL that doesn't align with the accusations about them in the OP.Commissioner Roger Goodell declined Wednesday to expand on the NFL’s statement distancing the league from comments made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker during a commencement address at a private Catholic college in Kansas.
“We have over 3,000 players,” Goodell said as the NFL concluded its spring meetings. “We have executives around the league that have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just like America does. I think that’s something that we treasure, and that’s part of, I think, ultimately what makes us as a society better.”
“Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a statement released Thursday. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”
Ken wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:31 pmTheir original statement was nothing more than this:Szdfan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:00 pm https://www.kget.com/sports/ap-commissi ... on-butker/Really mild comments from the NFL that doesn't align with the accusations about them in the OP.Commissioner Roger Goodell declined Wednesday to expand on the NFL’s statement distancing the league from comments made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker during a commencement address at a private Catholic college in Kansas.
“We have over 3,000 players,” Goodell said as the NFL concluded its spring meetings. “We have executives around the league that have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just like America does. I think that’s something that we treasure, and that’s part of, I think, ultimately what makes us as a society better.”
“Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a statement released Thursday. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”
So sorry to hear about your daughter.temporal1 wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:37 pmKen wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:31 pmTheir original statement was nothing more than this:Szdfan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:00 pm https://www.kget.com/sports/ap-commissi ... on-butker/
Really mild comments from the NFL that doesn't align with the accusations about them in the OP.
“Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a statement released Thursday. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”
The OP is from an outstanding, successful satire group.
Evenso, is anyone unaware of violent felonies and other serious crimes committed by NFL players?
One of the reasons many do not view.
i have a personal grudge. My daughter was violently raped as a college freshman by a college fb player. i’m not over it.
even at the college level, crime is often ignored for valuable athletes. THE BEE speaks to it.
Despite the convictions, the football players went on to play at various colleges. One of them was removed from the team after a petition and outcry, but then he filed a lawsuit and won and was able to get back on the team.The evidence presented in court mainly consisted of hundreds of text messages and cellphone pictures that had been taken by more than a dozen people at the parties and afterwards traded with other students and posted to social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and which were described by the judge as "profane and ugly".
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's controversial commencement address does not appear to have affected his standing with his team of seven years.
Speaking to reporters for the first time since Butker addressed the graduates of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said he disagreed with some of the statements made but endorsed Butker's character.
"I know Harrison. I've known him for seven years and I judge him by the character that he shows every single day and that's a good person. That's someone who cares about the people around him, cares about his family and wants to make a good impact in society. When you're in a locker room, there's a lot of people from a lot of different areas in life and they have a lot of different views on everything.
"We're not always going to agree, and there's certain things that he said that I don't necessarily agree with, but I understand the person that he is, and he is trying to do whatever he can to lead people in the right direction. That might not be the same values as I have, but at the same time, I'm going to judge him by the character that he shows every single day. That's a great person, and we'll continue to move along and try to help build each other up to make ourselves better every single day."
When pressed on what exactly he disagreed with from Butker, Mahomes only alluded to "certain values that certain people emphasize more than others."
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Chiefs head coach Andy Reid had a reaction similar to Mahomes', emphasizing the team's diversity while sidestepping his thoughts on the speech's content:
"I talk to Harrison all the time. I didn't talk to him about this. I didn't think we needed to. We're a microcosm of life. Everybody is from different areas, different religions, different races, and so, we all get along, we all respect each other's opinions and not necessarily do we go by those, but we respect everybody to have a voice.
"It's the great thing about America and we're just, like I said, a microcosm of that. My wish is that everybody could kind of follow that."
Reid also said he didn't believe the topic had become a distraction for the Chiefs and that no female Chiefs employees had come to him with misgivings about Butker's speech.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/chiefs-pat ... 48996.html
there is evidence that pushback to the pushback was effective.RZehr wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 12:47 pmKansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's controversial commencement address does not appear to have affected his standing with his team of seven years.
Speaking to reporters for the first time since Butker addressed the graduates of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said he disagreed with some of the statements made but endorsed Butker's character.
"I know Harrison. I've known him for seven years and I judge him by the character that he shows every single day and that's a good person. That's someone who cares about the people around him, cares about his family and wants to make a good impact in society. When you're in a locker room, there's a lot of people from a lot of different areas in life and they have a lot of different views on everything.
"We're not always going to agree, and there's certain things that he said that I don't necessarily agree with, but I understand the person that he is, and he is trying to do whatever he can to lead people in the right direction. That might not be the same values as I have, but at the same time, I'm going to judge him by the character that he shows every single day. That's a great person, and we'll continue to move along and try to help build each other up to make ourselves better every single day."
When pressed on what exactly he disagreed with from Butker, Mahomes only alluded to "certain values that certain people emphasize more than others."
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Chiefs head coach Andy Reid had a reaction similar to Mahomes', emphasizing the team's diversity while sidestepping his thoughts on the speech's content:
"I talk to Harrison all the time. I didn't talk to him about this. I didn't think we needed to. We're a microcosm of life. Everybody is from different areas, different religions, different races, and so, we all get along, we all respect each other's opinions and not necessarily do we go by those, but we respect everybody to have a voice.
"It's the great thing about America and we're just, like I said, a microcosm of that. My wish is that everybody could kind of follow that."
Reid also said he didn't believe the topic had become a distraction for the Chiefs and that no female Chiefs employees had come to him with misgivings about Butker's speech.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/chiefs-pat ... 48996.html
Alternatively, one can watch for bandwagons that other people are jumping on and off of, and supply us with knee-jerk dogmatic responses to that activity. Is that more profitable?
ohio jones wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 2:12 pmAlternatively, one can watch for bandwagons that other people are jumping on and off of, and supply us with knee-jerk dogmatic responses to that activity. Is that more profitable?
Think about it!