This week WWL's host Newell Normand asked his listeners to comment on the NFL's controversy. He was referring to NFL players who took a knee or sat during the playing of the national anthem. It was the usual ditto head reaction to use Donald Trump's remarks to blame the NFL for the so called controversy started by Trump himself and there fore it is the Trump controversy and not the NFL controversy.
We all know a small number of Americans through the years have used different ways to express their free speech and expressions in ways most Americans disagree with and would never do. There is no controversy in that and in the case of the NFL the latest development is nothing new. What has been added is the trumpet man's ruse to shore up his base by calling those who take a knee or sit SOB's. That is the controversy and it is Trumps, not the NFL.
Later in the afternoon this week on sports talk, Bobby Hebert and company took up the same so called controversy and continued the ditto head conversation. Even injected the owners and money matters into the conversation. Its like the players protest is some thing new and people in sports and who follow sports are just now discovering the financial wealth of the NFL franchise owners.
This writer is no friend of NFL owners and the corporate Welfare some receive from the states and on record in several past commentary here in PolitiDose on the subject matter. But this latest controversy is on Donald Trump and sadly, done for political reasons.
The great majority of Americans still feel the goose bumps when the national anthem is played and our flag still fly's proudly above all others. And yes, we still live proudly in America the Beautiful and always will, of that I am certain because those that want to divide us will fail.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
