Other Sports Players Kneeling for Anthem Met with Boos Before MLS Game in Texas - Page 8

Deberg_1990 · 08-13-2020, 10:19 AM

I imagine this is what the NFL will receive as well......

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san...sts_po-organic

FRISCO, Texas -- There was a smattering of boos when players from FC Dallas and Nashville SC collectively took a knee during the national anthem before their MLS game on Wednesday night in Frisco, Texas.

Dallas defender Reggie Cannon said he was disgusted by the boos at Toyota Stadium when players and officials knelt to call attention to racial injustice. He said teammate Ryan Hollingshead turned to him afterward and said he was sorry.

“You can’t even have support from your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me,” Cannon said. “As a team we try to give the best possible product on the field and these last six months have been absolute hell for us. Absolute hell.”

Dallas and Nashville had not played a game since the season was suspended on March 12 because of the coronavirus. While Major League Soccer’s other teams played in the MLS is Back tournament in Florida over the past month, Dallas and Nashville were forced to withdraw before the start because of positive COVID-19 tests among players from both teams.

The teams met as MLS restarts the regular season in local markets. Some of the games will include fans if local jurisdictions allow it. Just over 5,000 were allowed to attend the match at Toyota Stadium, although the crowd that showed up appeared smaller.

Nashville won the game, 1-0. The two teams meet again on Sunday.

The death of George Floyd has spurred a number of MLS players to form the group Black Players for Change, which seeks to address systemic racism in soccer and society.

At the opening game of the MLS tournament in Florida, members of the group collectively stood in silence, fists raised, for more than eight minutes. Players and coaches wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts throughout the event.

Eight minutes, 46 seconds is the length of time prosecutors say Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was pinned to the ground under a white Minneapolis police officer’s knee before he died.

The anthem was not played before games at the tournament. Cannon said the players had asked that it not be played before the game because they didn’t feel it was right “for the anthem to be played in this moment.”

“We had someone chanting U.S.A., but they don’t understand what kneeling means. They don’t understand why we’re kneeling. They can’t see the reason. They think we’re the ignorant ones,” Cannon said. “It’s incredibly frustrating. I’m sorry to have this tone, but you have to call it for what it is.”

Cannon said he expected to have some negative pushback over the unified response.

“It hurts me because I love our fans, I love this club, and I want to see the support that the league has given us, that everyone has given us, from our fans,” he said.

**DaneMcCloud** · 08-13-2020, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Pointer19

I've flown with a guy who did a flyover at Arrowhead. If not for the anthem, when would we get to see those beautiful B-2s or A-10s raging across the sky?

But I could be biased.

Ahem, you mean if the NFL wouldn't have paid for said flyovers.

**DaneMcCloud** · 08-13-2020, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by srvy

No one gives a **** about your opinion nor do they believe your bullshit. You have been here long enough to know what we all know. You're full of shit.

You need to lighten up.

And, you're full of shit if you think he's lying.

Beef Supreme · 08-13-2020, 09:21 PM

They're going to play the national anthem and the black national anthem before NFL games this season. They going kneel for both?

Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan · 08-13-2020, 09:56 PM

And as usual, Dane can't actually have a conversation. It only counts if HE gets to pontificate and no one should dare dissent.

*sigh*

Never change, Dane. You're at least semi-entertaining.

Wrong, but semi-entertaining.

And posting volumes doesn't make you any more right than someone who doesn't post as often. Just means you're wrong louder.

*plonk*

**DaneMcCloud** · 08-13-2020, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

And as usual, Dane can't actually have a conversation. It only counts if HE gets to pontificate and no one should dare dissent.

*sigh*

Never change, Dane. You're at least semi-entertaining.

Wrong, but semi-entertaining.

And posting volumes doesn't make you any more right than someone who doesn't post as often. Just means you're wrong louder.

*plonk*

I don’t even know who you are.

**BigRedChief** · 08-13-2020, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by srvy

No one gives a **** about your opinion nor do they believe your bullshit. You have been here long enough to know what we all know. You're full of shit.

you are special.

Yeah, no one on here has ever heard me talk about vets, promote vet causes, packages for troops ring a bell? I have no interactions with vets? You embrassed yourself.

**srvy** · 08-13-2020, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

you are special.

Yeah, no one on here has ever heard me talk about vets, promote vet causes, packages for troops ring a bell? I have no interactions with vets? You embrassed yourself.

Your problem is you talk to much. Are you looking for pats on the back? Atta boy dipshit! Hows that?

Demonpenz · 08-14-2020, 12:10 AM

Stop hunting black people and we stop kneeling

|Zach| · 08-14-2020, 12:32 AM

MLS players and coaches have been a lot more unified and out spoken in regards to embracing the Black Lives Matter movement.

They will absolutely keep kneeling and a small minority (especially in Texas) will boo. That's fine come what may everyone gets their say.

Nashville got the very first win in their team's history so that was cool to see.

KC_Connection · 08-14-2020, 12:53 AM

Oh, I can't wait for some of the idiots in this fanbase to boo Mahomes.

**Baby Lee** · 08-14-2020, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Oh, I can't wait for some of the idiots in this fanbase to boo Mahomes.

That's a heap of projected resentment you have reserved for your fellow fans.

**srvy** · 08-14-2020, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Oh, I can't wait for some of the idiots in this fanbase to boo Mahomes.

What you gonna do about it if they do? Log into CP and vent?

kjwood75nro · 08-14-2020, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Stop hunting black people and we stop kneeling

If we don't hunt black people, then they become overpopulated, leaving the herd susceptible to disease and food shortages.

Spott · 08-14-2020, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by TripleThreat

I hate how basic people are with some sports.

Because you think the score of a scoccer game relates to how fun it is, shows you never played the sport passed a 5th grade level and simply don't respect it.

I don't blame you either; If I didn't understand what a through pass is, or a nutmeg, or a pattern run, or why they are passing the ball backwards instead of forwards, I would hate watching the game too.

You don't understand the game, as many don't, so you simply don't like it because the ball doesn't go in the net enough. Soccer is far more complex than most sports out there.

It doesn’t matter what the score is, soccer will always be ****ing lame.

Mecca · 08-14-2020, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by srvy

No one gives a **** about your opinion nor do they believe your bullshit. You have been here long enough to know what we all know. You're full of shit.

Since you're responding to him, apparently you give a **** about his opinion.

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