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supafreak84 · Yesterday, 08:20 PM

Certainly not trying to turn this political, but it's what the NFL is best at, so...I just watched the NFL have a moment of silence before the Thursday night game for Kneeland, who killed himself after being in a pursuit with the cops and crashing his car. Like...why? Why do they choose to celebrate or recognize people who break the law and/or do stupid shit? Today's NFL and the causes or people they choose to support blows my mind

Zanary · Yesterday, 09:27 PM

It's still a pretty disturbing death of a kid who has the dream job, has the slews of support people, and still manages to have a very final meltdown.

I'm not sure what the response should be, really.

supafreak84 · Yesterday, 09:45 PM

(Yesterday, 09:27 PM)Zanary Wrote: It's still a pretty disturbing death of a kid who has the dream job, has the slews of support people, and still manages to have a very final meltdown.

I'm not sure what the response should be, really.

Agreed, but a moment of silence...really!? For a guy who broke the law and was running from the cops? Lol. The NFL is just completely ass backwards at this point.

SFVikingFan · Yesterday, 10:25 PM

Sounds to me more like a mental health crisis ending in suicide than any sort of criminal activity. I don't have a problem with a moment of silence for the guy.

StickierBuns · 7 hours ago

For me, I really don't care. I don't get outraged over everything. I do think ESPN is extremely liberal-minded in a way that panders hardcore to every shifting wind of cultural 'correctness', but what else would I expect from ratings chasing whores? I have my opinion internally and if I don't like it, I just move on or ignore it. Getting mad at what I see on television is like yelling at a cloud.

Waterboy · 2 hours ago

(Yesterday, 09:45 PM)supafreak84 Wrote: Agreed, but a moment of silence...really!? For a guy who broke the law and was running from the cops? Lol. The NFL is just completely ass backwards at this point.

Somewhere along the line the cops became the bad guys for half of this society. It's led to a bad place that honestly this country may never recover from. When law and order is optional in society, it goes away. I'm guessing the guy had other issues going on, but yeah this shouldn't be honored in any way, shape, or form.

IceRatz16 · 1 hour ago

(7 hours ago)StickierBuns Wrote: For me, I really don't care. I don't get outraged over everything. I do think ESPN is extremely liberal-minded in a way that panders hardcore to every shifting wind of cultural 'correctness', but what else would I expect from ratings chasing whores? I have my opinion internally and if I don't like it, I just move on or ignore it. Getting mad at what I see on television is like yelling at a cloud.

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(Yesterday, 08:20 PM)supafreak84 Wrote: Certainly not trying to turn this political, but it's what the NFL is best at, so...I just watched the NFL have a moment of silence before the Thursday night game for Kneeland, who killed himself after being in a pursuit with the cops and crashing his car. Like...why? Why do they choose to celebrate or recognize people who break the law and/or do stupid shit? Today's NFL and the causes or people they choose to support blows my mind

I don't disagree at all with this, but I will say, my guess is it is more focused on losing a brother in the NFL then what he did. You play football, you are in an exclusive club. It's no different then when your idiot sibling does something stupid. You still think they are an idiot, but you mourn them because they were family. I know the NFL pushes politics all the time, but that wasn't my feeling here. I just think it was shocking, it was one of their NFL brothers and regardless of what they thought of his actions, they lost one of their own, so they used their stage to mourn that.