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• NFL VEEER RATING WEEK 4 2017 CRACK

Did President Obama go batcrap? Did Senator McCain go batcrap? Is there no standard we can hold African-American athletes to? … So there is an opportunity and I think a responsibility to put away emotion and occasionally act strategically when someone is trolling you. Let’s show Donald Trump! … Everybody that Trump says something bad about should go absolutely batcrap then. Oh my God, he says we shouldn’t kneel, so let’s everybody kneel together. He baited us, and they fell for it unbelievably.

NFL VEEER RATING WEEK 4 2017 CRACK

This doesn’t crack the top 100 things he has ever said.” But in reality if you just judge Donald Trump, this is nothing.

And I think that we in the media and public figures, our addiction to Twitter, in particular make us think, oh my God, Donald Trump has said something incredible! But if we just evaluate what Donald Trump has been doing for the last decade, he is right on brand … Somehow, him using the word SOB metaphorically is the bridge too far? It’s a joke, and it’s proof that we are living way too much on Twitter and in the internet world where this is a big deal. Whitlock on Donald Trump the Twitter troll: “He is the Troller in Chief, and he has been trolling America for at least a decade.If it was used selectively to mark those occasions, then I think it would have more meaning for many people.” Or in the aftermath of a great national event, be it a tragic event, God forbid, terrorist attacks, hurricanes or some sort of great shared national triumph or moment of celebration. On the other hand, national anthem 81 times a year at Yankee Stadium, and at the seventh inning stretch, 81 times a year, “God Bless America,” people say keep politics out of sports, but that subliminally represents a certain kind of view that goes beyond universal love of country … This is might sound like heresy, but the national anthem might resonate more if it was reserved for special occasions. If you go to the theater to see “Hamilton,” it is about the founding of the republic, and no one says, wait a minute, how can they start without the national anthem? … The anthem has been directly associated with sports, understandably so, because sports cuts across so many demographic lines and it can be a uniting force, and you can get goosebumps hearing the national anthem. Costas on playing the anthem before sports events: “This is going to be misunderstood, and you and I both understand about being misunderstood.

I don't think that that's a textured view of what is going on.” So anytime anyone protests in connection with the national anthem, it is taken that they are disrespecting the military and disrespecting their service. But somehow through symbolism and reinforcement, it has come to mean, for many people, only one set of values-and it is especially meant to be associated with the military. Patriotism is not more a conservative idea than it is a moderate or liberal idea. Sometimes they aren't because their point isn't well taken or they’re actually hostile, and we don't have to agree with them, but dissidents can be patriots. And as I said on CNN, I believe that patriotism comes in different forms. It isn't that there is anything wrong with that, but eventually it is reinforced that that is the only thing that patriotism is about, that's the only thing that the national anthem is about.

Costas on patriotism and the NFL: “At every NFL game, there is a goal line-to-goal line, field-wide-to-field-length American flag, military people showing up, often a flyover.