Here’s Why This NFL Star Claims the League Is Getting ‘Soft’
By Smokeroom. Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews has some choice words for the NFL.
After getting his third call of the season for roughing the passer, Matthews accused the NFL’s new rules of being too soft.
“Unfortunately this league’s going in a direction I think a lot of people don’t like. I think they’re getting soft,” Matthews said, per ESPN. “The only thing hard about this league is the fines they levy down on guys like me who play the game hard.”
Roughing the passer. Clay Matthews may actually kill a referee at this point pic.twitter.com/ta9zJqrAOO
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) September 23, 2018
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Americans to Kneeling NFL Players: Just Do It
By True New Jersey. . .Two-thirds of U.S. voters disagree with and Trump and say NFL players have a right to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality in minority communities.
That’s according to a poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University, which said that voters backed the players’ right to protest, 67 percent to 30 percent.
While defending the players’ right to protest, voters said they didn’t like their tactics, splitting 47 percent to 47 percent on whether they should kneel during the anthem.
“‘Take a knee, it’s your right,’ American voters tell NFL players,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. “But many voters who agree with the right to protest disagree with the actual protests.” (Read more from “Americans to Kneeling NFL Players: Just Do It” HERE)
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