![]() The video flashed to a shot of Jones keeping his hat on during the anthem and having a conversation.īack in September, Hansen delivered a powerful defense of NFL players protesting during the national anthem. ![]() “He who makes the rules apparently doesn’t have to follow them.” And when he was told about the mistake he was making, he still left his cap on. “Jones loves and respects the national anthem so much that when it was being played before the start of practice Saturday, he left his cap on. Now you'll never convince me there were 248. But you take a knee to protest the racial injustice in America, and now you’ve crossed a line that he will not allow. Missouri's Michael Sam, the SEC defensive player of the year and the first openly gay player in the NFL was the 249th pick in the league's 2014 draft. A player can use illegal drugs, time and time again, and still play. It’s incredible to me that a player can beat up a woman and play for the Dallas Cowboys. “Jones and his son Stephen were saying the other day that any player who takes a knee and doesn’t toe the line during the national anthem won’t be playing for the Dallas Cowboys anymore. And he has been talking too much this week about all the problems the NFL is still having off the field. But Jones talks about that almost every year anyway. ![]() It has been 22 years since they have, and only three playoff wins in those 22 years. They listed 10, and not one of them says you have to stand during the anthem.Īnd I think those men respected the country they fought for and founded - a great deal more than the self-proclaimed patriots who are simply hypocrites, because they want to deny the basic freedom of this great country.Ī country they supposedly value and cherish so much.“Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had been talking this week about getting his football team ready to play in another Super Bowl. Our forefathers made freedom of speech the First Amendment. There has never been a better use of pen to paper. Hansen’s speech came in response to the shootings of five police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Thursday. ![]() Maybe we all need to read our Constitution again. Dale Hansen, a sportscaster for the ABC-affiliated WFAA television station in Dallas, gave a powerful speech on Friday regarding the current state of violence in the U.S. And if you don’t think white privilege is a fact, you don’t understand America. They, and all of us, should protest how black Americans are treated in this country. It’s a dog whistle to the racists among us to say otherwise. They are respecting the best thing about America. Longtime WFAA sports broadcaster Dale Hansens words shot across the Internet this week. The young, black athletes are not disrespecting America or the military by taking a knee during the anthem. WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen comments on the Cowboys' signing of pass rusher and convicted domestic abuser Greg Hardy.Learn more about Dale Hansen: https. the first openly gay player in the NFL, and he continues to be a progressive. Hansen mentioned he served in the Vietnam War and that his best friend in high school “did not die so that you can decide who is a patriot and who loves America more.” Dale Hansen, the weeknight sports anchor for WFAA-TVs 10 p.m. Sports Dale Hansen Is Signing Off, Taking the Anchorman Era With Him The Dallas sportscaster will end a 41-year run delivering the local news when he retires in September. And college kids in the 60s had no right to protest an immoral war. Young, black Americans should have gone to a different college and found a different lunch counter. Martin Luther King should have marched across a different bridge. But not this protest, and there’s the problem: Any protest you don’t agree with is a protest that should be stopped. Donald Trump has said he supports a peaceful protest because it’s an American’s right. ![]()
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