Da Coach is really soundin' senile here:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/07/26 ... D4-_QZiTCk

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo


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Former NFL player and head coach Mike Ditka ripped American sports athletes showing a lack of “respect” for the country by kneeling during the National Anthem, suggesting they ought to leave the United States if they’re that unhappy with the country.

“If it was up to me, I’d say no,” Ditka, 80, a college and NFL Hall of Fame player as well as a legendary Chicago Bears coach, told TMZ Sports when asked what he thought about the kneeling.



“If you can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the way I feel. Of course, I’m old fashioned. So, I’m only going to say what I feel. I think there’s a way you protest and there’s a way you don’t protest.

“You don’t protest against the flag, you don’t against this country [that] has given you the opportunity to make a living playing a sport that you never thought would happen,” he continued.

“So, I don’t wanna hear all the crap,” he added.


Earlier in the interview, Ditka also predicted that women would soon play in the NFL, though he admitted he didn’t know how it will come about or how well it will go.

“I think football appeals to so many people, and to see women play the game and play it, not only with, I think with skill, it’ll be fun to watch,” he said after noting that women have begun competing in other physically demanding sports like Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and boxing, among others.

As professional sports leagues reopen to mostly empty stadiums and venues following lengthy coronavirus-related delays, players have begun taking a knee during the playing of the anthem, ostensibly to protest “systemic racism” not all Americans agree exists.

Major League Baseball’s truncated season finally began Thursday with players and coaches throughout the league dropping to one knee in support of the Marxist-oriented Black Lives Matter movement.

“Today, and every day, we come together as brothers,” said actor Morgan Freeman in a prerecorded message played on stadium loudspeakers as coaches and players knelt. “As equals, all with the same goal – to level the playing field. To change the injustices. Equality is not just a word. It’s our right.

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These paragraphs are talking about two different things. The first one is including women in a sport with men, the second one is about creating a women's only version of a sport. He is supposedly figureheading a league going after the second one -- not sure why he would bring up mixing women in as players in the NFL. I think that would end very poorly unless it was Kathy Ireland coming in as placekicker. Of course, she is 57 now, which may be a little long in the tooth for even a special teams role.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas