Whaa the football players are being mean

[Fanatical Meat]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/01/us/ferguson-nfl-st-louis-rams/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

This group should stfu, I don't care where you stand of the issue it sounds whiny

 

[smackababy]

To be fair, it is pretty poor taste for a St. Louis team to be making reference like that.

 

[JM Aggie08]

I think a more accurate representation is when the players are charging towards their opponents.

 

[Markbnj]

Touchdown!

 

[DesiPower]

and the Raiders didn't shoot! it worked!!

 

[smackababy]

and the Raiders didn't shoot! it worked!!

The Raiders should have. They might have had a chance to score at least once.

 

[OutHouse]

the dumb football player stereotype is alive and well.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Hands up, don't shoot!

 

[gorcorps]

My biggest problem with it is that this display makes it look like the Ram organization is on board with one side of this issue. It's something that an NFL team should NOT have any public opinion of, and I'm sure there are those within the organization that don't feel the same way... but are now part of it by association.

It's one thing to show personal beliefs on your own time, it's quite another to basically speak publically for your entire team when nobody asked you to. It's a line that didn't need to be crossed, and now you've affected your fan base when a football team shouldn't even be associated with such things.

 

[smackababy]

My biggest problem with it is that this display makes it look like the Ram organization is on board with one side of this issue. It's something that an NFL team should NOT have any public opinion of, and I'm sure there are those within the organization that don't feel the same way... but are now part of it by association.

It's one thing to show personal beliefs on your own time, it's quite another to basically speak publically for your entire team when nobody asked you to. It's a line that didn't need to be crossed, and now you've affected your fan base when a football team shouldn't even be associated with such things.

Eh, the Rams players aren't as bad as people like Lebron tweeting about it, regardless of the facts.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Britt was just out of practice.

From wiki:

On April 12, 2011, Britt was arrested in New Jersey on three counts (including a felony) following an alleged car chase with police. The charges were later reduced.[9] On June 7, Britt pled guilty to careless driving and was fined.[10] On June 8, 2012, Britt was arrested in Hoboken, NJ, charged with resisting arrest.[11] On January 13, 2013, Britt's close personal friend was involved in a stabbing and Britt reportedly drove him to the Jersey City Medical Center. When police attempted to ask Britt about the incident, he was allegedly not willing to cooperate. The incident marks the ninth time Britt was involved with police since he joined the NFL.[12]

 

[highland145]

The Raiders should have. They might have had a chance to score at least once.

Still wouldn't have had a chance.

 

[oppie1]

i like how everyone is doing the hands up dont shoot as a protest.. but that never even happened.. dummies

 

[PingviN]

i like how everyone is doing the hands up dont shoot as a protest.. but that never even happened.. dummies

The media has spoken, truth has been established.

 

[shortylickens]

i like how everyone is doing the hands up dont shoot as a protest.. but that never even happened.. dummies

Ferguson citizens have held the opinion they get harassed too much in general. The hands up thing was specifically made for nonviolent protesters for the last couple months.

 

[smackababy]

Ferguson citizens have held the opinion they get harassed too much in general. The hands up thing was specifically made for nonviolent protesters for the last couple months.

These nonviolent protesters you speak of, are they the ones looting and "burning this bitch to the ground"?

 

[The_Dude8]

i like how everyone is doing the hands up dont shoot as a protest.. but that never even happened.. dummies

isn't the hands up signal a touchdown? I don't see any thing wrong with that, the ref gives the hands up signal when someone score a TD.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Whaa the players union didn't apologize or did they....

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/02/us/ferguson-nfl-st-louis-rams/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

[smackababy]

Maybe some good will come of this. Mark Jackson might finally stop saying "Hand down, man down". Because, holy fuck, that is annoying.

 

[Genx87]

The statement quoted the association's business manager, Jeff Roorda, as saying that "it is unthinkable that homegrown athletes would so publicly perpetuate a narrative that has been disproven over and over again."

"I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertisers' products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do."

About Jeff Roorda

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/da...body_cameras_make_people_less_safe.php?page=2

That is who you want as a spokesman for the police union. A guy who was fired as a cop for making false police reports. He also opposes body cameras because it requires cops to follow the laws. His comments about the "thugs" burning down the city has a racist feel to it.

 

[Ken g6]

isn't the hands up signal a touchdown? I don't see any thing wrong with that, the ref gives the hands up signal when someone score a TD.

That's palms facing each other (so the arms and hands look like the goal uprights). These players had palms forward.