From a Marine
Semper Fi

Commissioner,
I have been a season ticket holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.

I missed the 1990-91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. Fourteen of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to win the Super Bowl. He never got to see it. Many friends, Marines and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.

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Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect the brave Americans who fought and died protecting something much greater than a piece of inflated pigskin in a safe controlled environment.

They are essentially spitting in the faces on the graves of real men who have actually done something for this country besides playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re not!

My Marines and Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this!

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You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this.

Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs!

I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?

Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game! You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team allows this disrespect to occur without consequence on the sidelines. I applaud those teams with respect for their country, their flag and themselves.

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Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles. They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They do it 24/7 often with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many return home at the end of the day with no arms or legs.

Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go into fires rather than down to safety. On 9-11 hundreds vanished. They are professionals. They are heroes.

I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are…legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.

Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC (Ret)
Vista, California