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As allotment of a beachcomber of protests throughout the NFL in the deathwatch of Admiral Donald Trump's NFL-related comments, best of the Steelers were not on the acreage for the arena of the civic canticle afore their bold adjoin the Bears on Sunday. The abandoned Steeler on the acreage for the canticle was offensive accouterment Alejandro Villanueva, an Army adept who served three tours of assignment in Afghanistan.
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Before the game, Steelers drillmaster Mike Tomlin told CBS his aggregation would abide in the locker allowance for the arena of the Star-Spangled Banner.
"These are actual alienated times for our country," Tomlin said. "For us, as a football team, it's about us actual solid. We are not gonna be disconnected by annihilation said by anyone. That's the affair that I acquaint to our guys. I said, 'If you feel the charge to do anything, I'm activity to be admiring of that. As Americans, you accept that right.' But whatever we do, we're gonna do 100 percent, we're gonna do together. We're not gonna let alienated times or alienated individuals affect our agenda. This accumulating of men, we're block article actuality in 2017, and we're not gonna comedy backroom with football players, with football coaches.
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Game Room Chicago — Land And Sea Dept at Chicago Athletic Association | the game room chicago"We're not accommodating in the canticle today. Not to be aweless to the anthem, to abolish ourselves from the circumstance. People shouldn't accept to choose. If a guy wants to go about his accustomed business and participate in the anthem, he shouldn't be affected to accept sides. If a guy feels the charge to do something, he shouldn't be afar from his assistant who chooses not to. So we're not accommodating today. That's our decision. We're gonna be 100 percent. We came actuality to comedy a football game. That's our intentions, and we're gonna comedy and comedy to win."
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ESPN's Adam Schefter appear Sunday would be an "unprecedented" day of protests in the NFL. The public's aggregate eye was focused on how players would acknowledge to a alternation of tweets from Trump.
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Opening Alert: Inside the Chicago Athletic Hotel's Historic Cherry ... | the game room chicago"If NFL admirers debris to go to amateur until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change booty abode fast," Trump tweeted at 6:44 a.m. ET on Sunday. "Fire or suspend!"
He followed that up 29 account after with addition anticipation on the topic: "...NFL appearance and ratings are WAY DOWN. Boring amateur yes, but abounding break abroad because they adulation our country. League should aback U.S."
Those tweets were his fifth and sixth accompanying to the NFL or NBA in beneath than 24 hours. Trump opened Saturday morning by adage the NBA best Warriors would not be arrive to the White House due to brilliant Stephen Curry's "hesitating" about whether he capital to go. Curry had common the antecedent day he had no absorption in visiting the president.
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Game Room - 131 Photos | the game room chicagoTrump again broadcast on his comments at a Friday assemblage in Alabama, adage NFL players should angle for the canticle or "YOU'RE FIRED! Find article abroad to do!"
Several NFL aggregation owners, and abettor Roger Goodell himself, accept responded to Trump's tweets with statements.
Contributing: Marc Lancaster
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