NFL Rules, “how about them apples”!
Rule 5, which covers Players, Substitutes, Equipment, and General Rules, does include (in Article 8) a section prohibiting players from “conveying personal messages” throughout the game day while they are visible to fans in attendance and television audiences, and from “convey[ing] messages, through helmet decals, arm bands, jersey patches, or other items affixed to game uniforms or equipment, which relate to political activities or causes …”:
Throughout the period on game-day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience (including in pregame warm-ups, in the bench area, and during postgame interviews in the locker room or on the field), players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the League office. Items to celebrate anniversaries or memorable events, or to honor or commemorate individuals, such as helmet decals, and arm bands and jersey patches on players’ uniforms, are prohibited unless approved in advance by the League office. All such items approved by the League office, if any, must relate to team or League events or personages. The League will not grant permission for any club or player to wear, display, or otherwise convey messages, through helmet decals, arm bands, jersey patches, or other items affixed to game uniforms or equipment, which relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns, or charitable causes or campaigns. Further, any such approved items must be modest in size, tasteful, non-commercial, and noncontroversial; must not be worn for more than one football season; and if approved for use by a specific team, must not be worn by players on other teams in the League.
However, some sources have confusingly stated that the NFL has a separate game operations manual distributed to all the teams, and it is that document, not the rulebook, which supposedly includes the wording in question regarding player conduct during the national anthem:
It’s important to know that NFL football games are governed by multiple codes of conduct. One is the NFL rulebook; another is the NFL game operations manual. The rulebook is concerned with in-game actions by players and coaches (like scoring, penalties, challenges and so on), whereas the game-operations manual dictates how NFL games should be run in the bigger-picture organizational sense.
“The league’s Game Operations Department uses the manual to govern the conduct of home clubs, to ensure they protect players and provide the conditions for a fair and fan-friendly contest,” reads the NFL’s website. “Clubs face warnings and other penalties for noncompliance.”
The NFL rulebook makes no mention of the national anthem. But the game operations manual does.
Here’s what the game operations manual says regarding the national anthem, according to an NFL spokesperson:
‘The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.
‘During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.’
Nor, oftentimes, can I. But agents certainly can!
You should have taken Law 101 and 102……
save yourself 20%
Actually as an undergraduate I did. Bored to death!
Al:
So the players obviously disregarded NFL rules. Ok. So did the coaches and owners who joined their players. Remember, the NFL is made up of the owners I believe. These monied individuals ‘may’ do what-ever they want with their players but I think they missed their chance. There are too many players involved and far too much money at stake. It will be interesting to see how they handle this one. Hope it doesn’t take as long as it took them to finally see the dangers of concussions. I guess overall, I look for a rule re-write.
Al:
Here’s a story that might make us all question much of what we believe in the military, the NFL and much more that we are fed daily by those in charge. This story suggests that in light of the Vietnam spectacle brought forward again by the Ken Burns series that nothing really changed in the way lies and cover-ups continued to feed the American public in the next 35 years. The only penalty received by those generals and public officials who perpetuate the BS is public scorn, if that. Their careers and pensions always continue. Is it any wonder that today is no different that 1965 when we were headed into that catastrophe known as the Vietnam War? Enjoy: https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/pat-tillman-nfl-protest-death-army-disgrace/
Agree Silverdollar
Silverdollar, I would bet that the democrats have screwed themselves on this one!
Possibly. Expecially the one who took a knee in Congress. However, being an independent, I actually enjoy watching both major parties screw themselves. I’m seldom left without something to smile at. Don’t forget, they both have taken turns in putting us where we are today.
Come on people smile on yours brothers, everybody get together try to love one another right now! When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn.
Does anybody here remember The Vietnam war protesters. We are doomed as a species. DT
The problem is not The American flag, the problem is the American anthem, it glorifies war instead of the love of one’s country.
The rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air, why can’t The US anthem be about peace. DT
Because D.T . Brave American Men thousands of miles from home hung their asses out there so you could complain. I’m related to a few of them.
If you don’t know where you’ve come from,you will never know where you are going.
Now man the **** up.
You are the kind of example that is wrong with America, the thinking is we are always right therefore don’t question us and expect us to change. You are too stupid to realize that your country does not have a god given right to do whatever it wants. DT
JohnK.
I discussed this with a good friend in Bible Study this morning. He happens to be a retired Navy Seal Instructor who tuned to the Lord during one of his many combat encounters.
Mike very explicitly said that he fought and risked his life for, among other things, the American Way of Life. And, one of these happens to be the right of free speech.
One can accurately interpret is glorifying defense.
My draft lottery # was 283.
Dick Tracy,
I agree with the ability to to protest peacefully. I think that in this case the forum chosen in not appropriate. Regarding how to look at the situation is a personal choice.
May Humble opinion ! Off all Diss ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eozcp94rGzY
Pretty interesting sermon, Franky!
You will be very interested in our Weekend Special posted tomorrow.
http://wsw.com/webcast/cantor6/mrns/?lobby=true&day=3
Probably a little late to buy MRNS, but it has a nice graph on stockcharts.
Of course, I’m NOT a chartist, so what do I know?
On a lighter note, Hugh Hefner has died from an apparent overdose of Viagra, he was 91, What a lucky guy! LOL! DT
The left that was essential in creating America’s greatest pussy-grabber, is now shocked that we might have one in the White House. When you work to coarsen the culture, don’t be surprised if you succeed.
Rather than currently, I would have to say: “for sure in the past, Wayne”!
One hell of a businessman, I would have to say!
Probably will turn out to be “much ado about nothing”!
Francis Scott Key penned the Star Spangled Banner in September 1814 during the siege of the imperial British Navy on Fort McHenry. In anticipation of the impending attack, the Americans hoisted an oversized American flag that would ultimately withstand the relentless onslaught from the sea. This inspired Key to write the lyrics. “The [British] rocket’s red glare, the bomb bursting in air….the broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight.”
The narrator tells the rest of the story.
That was the point that I was making in my comment to Dick Tracy!
AL, Rick, Doc, etc., what was your draft lottery number? As Pat Paulsen explained, all the young men drop a piece of paper with their name and hat size into a hat. The ones with the smallest heads are sent into combat, and the fatheads go into the government.
Bonzo, I don’t even remember.
Commie report……….Kim and the Chinese say OUT OF BUSINESS
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-28/beijing-orders-all-north-korean-businesses-close
Yep, thanks I saw that.
Now for those who think that Trump is ineffective!
Ira’s morning:
https://youtu.be/KhE0la6x0Ss?t=32
China is on holiday, so precious metals are being manipulated down more easily.
same old game……
SGTReport has a Malthusian commentary on rising population, food shortages, etc.
For once it is wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cazVrq9v1mE
and check out new grain possibilities like Fonio, which grows in close to desert conditions.
The biggest danger always lies in “not knowing what you don’t know”.
Comstock metals Drills 1.25 m at 220.96 g/t Gold and 4.20 m at 17.40 g/t Gold at North Zone, Preview Project, Saskatchewan
Palladium rise……..associated with the NEW COIN…….
https://www.apmex.com/category/46001/1-oz-palladium-american-eagles
We noticed the other day……in concert with CFS……Palladium price higher than Platinum, which is ,I think a historical first……….what say ye other guys…..
I am sure some others will pick up on this one, ………maybe some coin collectors will notice first……….lol
CFS>>>>>>>>>>>this was for you……………..
Kind of funny……..what was his first clue……..
Don’t believe everything you read.
Greenspan was a major believer in Gold…….always was, still is…..He had to be quiet while working for the government.
If/when the US defaults on its bonds and Treasuries, just look how much we will have bought with useless paper.
I believe the real problem with government is, and always will be, corruption and using public money via socialism to acquire votes and power. The best government is minimalist government.
The govt…….was taken over a long time ago………
From David Morgan……….321 gold article………..
The Core Reason I stayed in
My 10 years’ earlier sell call was predicated upon the belief that by 2011 we would have seen massive public participation into a blow-off secular top. But that simply had not taken place.
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By: David Smith
I’d like to share a personal investment tale with you, the origins of which go back a ways. I became involved in physical precious metals/futures trading in 1972 after reading Harry Browne’s book, How to Profit from the Coming Devaluation.
Not unlike David Morgan (before we knew each other) I accumulated metal and silver futures contracts, and rode prices into the March 1980 top. I sold my futures, but held the metal until the Hunt Brothers were knocked out of the game after the CRIMEX changed the rules to contract-offset only, collapsing the silver price.
I watched silver drop through Harry Browne’s “sell if it goes below $37.50” call to $10.80. Then, during a classic 50% retracement to $25, I asked my broker where he though silver would bottom. His answer: “$5.00.” He called it almost to the dollar, but it took a generation to get there.
In 2000, after buying a one-ounce gold Krugerrand for my daughter’s high school graduation and watching people at her party view it with zero interest, I decided to move back into the sector, focusing on physical metals and mining company shares.
As the new bull market was getting underway in 2001, I decided to write on a piece of paper the following sentence: “On June 22, 2011, win, lose or draw, I will exit my position in the metals and mining shares.”
Fast forward to May, 2011. Having worked with David Morgan at The Morgan Report for a decade, we were following the resource sector on a daily basis for subscribers and for our own accounts. His brilliant call to buy silver in the mid-$20 range enabled his subscribers to re-enter for almost the entire upward surge to just under $50… and then he called that cyclical bull market top, to within one day. I called it a day later in an email to Greg McCoach.
You might be asking: “What about that note you wrote to yourself, saying you ‘would get out on June 22, 2011 – win, lose or draw.’?” My honest answer, unaffected by greed or ego?
First, I was definitely aware that we could be looking at a major cyclical top – though I never dreamed it would drag the metals down into a five year bear market. However…
The Core Reason I stayed in
My 10 years’ earlier sell call was predicated upon the belief that by 2011 we would have seen massive public participation into a blow-off secular top. But that simply had not taken place.
Sitting through the last 5 years was financially painful, but thankfully, instead of just holding onto everything, I moved in and out of mining stocks during the ups and downs into the December, 2015 cyclical bottom, while keeping a physical metals’ position. It wasn’t easy, but knowing that contrarians reap the biggest gains, I re-bought the strongest mining survivors as a new rise seemed likely.
While gold and silver prices dropped about 45% and 70% respectively, mining stocks were eviscerated – across the board. Here are the 2011 prices of four stocks I originally held, compared to where I finished buying them back 4 years later:
$26.00 – $3.50; $10.20 – $0.26; $13.00 – $1.00; $3.20 – $0.09 cents.
This demonstrates why most people who want to control risk and limit the downside during serious declines should focus on holding physical metal.
In my considered opinion, when silver penetrates and builds a base above $26 on the upside and gold does so above $1,500, we can be reasonably assured that the bull run is back in full swing, with – at the very least – an eventual challenge of the 2011 highs.
sorry……..did mean to print all the above………ONLY THIS……..sorry again
…In my considered opinion, when silver penetrates and builds a base above $26 on the upside and gold does so above $1,500, we can be reasonably assured that the bull run is back in full swing, with – at the very least – an eventual challenge of the 2011 highs.
Words say should not shall which puts it in the legal realm of optional.
Colon Kapernick was on his way out last year. Didn’t he have a negative quaterback passer rating? Wasn’t it last in the league. Look at the sh%^&%tstorm he started just trying to stay relevant.
Remember most of the players can not read a contract……………