(Reuters) – The Cleveland police officers union will not hold the U.S. flag at the first Browns game of the new National Football League season after some of the team’s players recently knelt in protest during the national anthem, the union president said.
Steve Loomis, the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association president, said he was offended by the Browns players’ symbolic act and so his members would not take part in the Sept. 10 season-opening ceremony.
“As a veteran of Operation Desert Storm and the United States Navy, and a 24-year veteran of the Cleveland Police Department, I am not going to participate or work with management that allows their players to disrespect the flag and the national anthem,” Loomis told WKYC news channel on Saturday. […]
Loomis said the Browns management had told him it was “disappointed” the union would not join in the flag ceremony alongside other military and law enforcement officers ahead of the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at the FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland.
If Obama had a football team. Here's a thought, let the NFL, who has more money than the government, pay for their own security. They condone it, so live with it. Either show respect for the flag and Americans (especially American taxpayers) or provide your own f**king security and traffic control. Seems easy enough to me, why should the taxpayers have to pay for a team that spits on the flag, the nation and the taxpayers? I hope more and more people boycott the NFL. When these assholes realize they've pretty much given the big FU to Americans who honor the flag and love America, I hope they will have lost billions. And that goes for their sponsors too. Good principled, country loving people can make stands too. I encourage it.
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