So last night, the Dallas Cowboys (long known as “America’s team”) collectively took a knee in yet another example of the professional sports world snubbing Donald Trump.
Joining the team in kneeling was owner Jerry Jones, who at a post-game news conference said that he was “aware that statements, when made or when attempted to be made in and a part of the recognition of our flag, can not only lead to criticism but also controversy.”
In this case “criticism and controversy” means that some folks were booing:
Prior to the National Anthem, the @DallasCowboys and @AZCardinals shared a moment of unity on the field. https://t.co/RSWQwHTyeD
— NFL (@NFL) September 26, 2017
Jones, who alerted the league ahead of time about the idea, continued as follows:
It was real easy for everybody in our organization to see that the message of unity, the message of equality was getting, if you will, pushed aside or diminished by the controversy. We even had the circumstances that it was being made into a controversy.
We planned and it was executed according to plan that we would go out and kneel in prayer, or kneel and basically stand and make the statement regarding the need for unity and the need for equality. Then we immediately turned around, stood up, walked over to the sideline.
Well Donald Trump is up before dawn on Tuesday and although there are countless things he should be worried about rather than tweeting about the Dallas Cowboys, that’s just what he’s going to do. Behold:
That’s right, “was loudest I have ever heard.” Everything is a superlative. “Bigly”, “big league,” “tremendous,” “loudest,” etc.
So apparently, the nuclear war Trump started on Twitter will have to wait until the President gets done musing about the decibel level of the boos at a Monday night football game.
Just wait until the mushroom clouds. “The destruction was biggest I have ever seen. Great death.”
