Big Talker Jerry Jones Backs Down
Jerry Jones shot his mouth off a couple of weeks ago saying any Cowboy who disrespected the flag would not play. Well, one of his thugs decided to respect the flag by raising a clenched fist during the playing of the anthem. Jones...did absolutely nothing. In fact, he praised the guy.
Dylan Gwinn23 Oct 2017
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Earlier this month, Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones strongly asserted that his players would respect the flag or, “we will not play.” Well, on Sunday, Cowboys LB David Irving raised a fist during the anthem as the Cowboys got set to take on the 49ers. And guess what? Irving, and the rest of Jerry Jones’ Cowboys, played.
After saying that he hadn’t discussed Irving’s blatant act of insubordination with him, Jones
sounded more much like a politician than an owner drawing a line in the sand. “But David can be a very important part of our team going forward,” Jones said. “Ever since he got back off his suspension he has made important plays. We need him out there. I am certainly pleased with any aspect of what he was about today, with his play or anything else.”
“I am certainly pleased with any aspect of what he was about today, with his play or anything else.”
Really? Jones is pleased with Irving openly defying him? That is quite a far cry from the Jerry Jones of two weeks ago, who famously
said, “If there’s anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play. OK? Understand? If we are disrespecting the flag, then we won’t play. Period. Period.”
If one required, for whatever reason, more proof of the NFL’s capitulation to its social justice jocks, these lines encapsulate it well. The owner of the richest franchise in all of the NFL, draws the hardest line any owner has ever drawn on the anthem protests. Then, two weeks later, an obscure defensive lineman defies him, and the tough-talking owner backs down.
If an owner like Jerry Jones, can’t stand up to an absolute nobody like David Irving, then the anti-protest movement in the NFL (if it ever even truly existed) never had a chance. Proving once and for all, that all of Jerry Jones’ tough talk, and all of Roger Goodell’s proclamations, are mere political markers. Laid down by a suit-and-tie wearing colony of half-men who simply want to be able to point back to previous lies they told, when explaining their current lies about their “helpless” positions, to the fans that they’re selling out.
[More at
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...arning-that-protesting-players-will-not-play/ ]
