DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME !

   yesterday, Sunday football really saddened me ... while normally I am excited to watch my Chicago Bears play horrible football, (led by one of the NFL's most inept coaches), yesterday was just plain depressing ...

   yeah, it's only my opinion, and football players definitely have the right to protest, bitch, or whine, whatever they want to call it, but dammit, DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME !

   I'm just an old truckdriver with opinions that matter to no one but me, but I would like to watch a damned football game, without having to see overpaid, multimillionaire jackasses showing disrespect to our country's anthem and flag ...

   while they get paid millions to blow out their knees and damage what usually barely qualifies as a brain, our armed forces lay their lives on the line for these clowns' 'right to protest' ...

   by the way, the NFL is the only major sport that does not require in writing that the players will stand for the anthem,      only Roger Goodell's chickensh*t mis-management of the NFL permits this disgrace to continue ... not familiar with Goodell ?, just look in the dictionary under 'greed', his photo should be there ...

   the players absolutely have a 'right to protest' whatever they want (no matter how ridiculous), but DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME ! 

   if I parked my truck to join in a public demonstration of any kind, my ass would have been fired on the spot ... 
   matter of fact, back in the 1970's it wasn't uncommon for attempted 'trucker strikes' to pop up here and there (in the old days when truckers had a set of balls) ... of course, our employers made it clear our jobs were trashed if we participated ... 

   they told us " if you want to protest something, fine, but DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME ! " ...

   I'm not sure exactly what my Bears were thinking - while none of the Bears players took a knee or otherwise disgraced themselves, they did stand together with arms locked, etc. ... 

   not sure if that was just a different way to protest, or what, but I miss the days when the only football controversy was whether or not the running back stepped out of bounds ...

   'da Bears' won quite the upset over the Pittsburgh Steelers, an overtime victory that stunned everyone ... 
   BUT, I couldn't enjoy watching it, it didn't give me any good feelings, because the mood was already ruined by the stupidass protesters ... the Steelers stayed in their locker room, not coming out for the anthem ...

   ONE Steeler came back out to the field to stand for the anthem ... Steeler Alejandro Villanueva, a 3-tour Mideast war veteran, U.S. Army Ranger, and HERO in my mind, returned to the field to honor his country ... he caught hell from Pittsburgh's Head Coach Tomlin for doing that, which is also pathetic ...

   I suppose none of this really matters, as I don't base my moral standards on what some spoiled 'football player with a college degree in jockstrap design' has to say ...

   there is not one single person in the USA that doesn't already have rights guaranteed him by the law, so people, remember the soldiers that died to guarantee our rights, and GET OVER YOURSELVES ! 

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   in other non-news, I am doing OK, considering ... I am now just over one year past my 'expiration date', and I'm beginning to feel it more ... 

   while I still am blessed to have only manageable pain so far, I have no energy at all ... my days consist of going from my bed to my recliner, and back ... I need to polish my van up and see about getting it sold, but I just don't have the energy ... 

   my girlfriend takes very good care of me, waiting on me hand and foot, and that just makes me feel worse, knowing how hard she works all day long, only to come home and wait on me ... I do what I can to help out, but it isn't much ...

   in the long run, it's all OK, the Lord has my back, and I really don't have anything to worry about ...