{"id":430840,"date":"2021-04-16T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430840"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:51:06","slug":"nfl-legend-brett-favre-says-kneeling-for-national-anthem-created-more-turmoil-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-legend-brett-favre-says-kneeling-for-national-anthem-created-more-turmoil-than-good\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Legend Brett Favre Says Kneeling For National Anthem \u2018Created More Turmoil Than Good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-legend-brett-favre-says-kneeling-for-national-anthem-created-more-turmoil-than-good%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2464.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Brett Favre, 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee and Super Bowl champion, just wants to watch sports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think both sides, for the most part, want to see it just remain about the sport,\u201d Favre told Andrew Klavan of The Daily Wire. \u201cNot about politics.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Favre\u2019s comments come after Major League Baseball\u2019s decision to move their All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia\u2019s Election integrity Act of 2021. His views on keeping sports and politics separate don\u2019t put him in the minority. In fact, whether the Left wants to admit it or not, Americans have little interest in being bombarded with social justice messaging and political activism while sitting down to watch their favorite team play.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Declining sports television ratings tend to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-new-daily-wire-poll-shows-woke-politics-could-hurt-mlbs-bottom-line\"><span>support<\/span><\/a><span> Favre\u2019s statement. Even the NBA, after seeing viewership decline during the NBA restart in Orlando, decided they had better tone down the political rhetoric during games for the 2020-2021 season.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI know when I turn on a game, I want to watch a game,\u201d Favre continued. \u201cI want to watch players play and teams win, lose, come from behind. I want to watch all the important parts of the game, not what\u2019s going on outside of the game, and I think the general fan feels the same way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many people have said to me, \u2018I don\u2019t want to watch anymore, it\u2019s not about the game anymore.\u2019 And I tend to agree.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The recent inundation of politics in sports can be traced back in large part to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick\u2019, who famously began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m not going to stand up and show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,\u201d Kaepernick told NFL media in 2016. \u201cTo me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Favre was asked whether current and former NFL players support the protesting of the national anthem before games. <\/span><span>\u201c<\/span><span>I personally have not had an in depth conversation with any present player. Or for that matter, former players or teammates,\u201d Favre said. \u201cIt\u2019s been talked about more in passing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI guess the jury is out on whether it will be a good thing or not. I think it\u2019s created more turmoil than good. But I agree with you 100%,\u201d Favre told Klavan. \u201cSomething has to unite us. And the games or sport in the past have been a unification. Now it\u2019s almost like a division.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sports without the side of politics. A pretty uncontroversial statement, no?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Evidently, not so for many on the Left.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"15.308641975309\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For those who need to hear this:<\/p>\n<p>Brett Favre is going to be a footnote in football history, relevant only to fans of the game. <\/p>\n<p>He contributed NOTHING to football that it didn\u2019t already have.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Kaepernick is going to be at least two chapters in every high school history or<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PamKeithFL\/status\/1382702416152436743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"15.526666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">despite real fear of the consequences, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kaepernick7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kaepernick7<\/a> is a bona fide HERO!<\/p>\n<p>(And before you get it twisted, Colin stared down hundreds of death threats from the TFG Heyena-pack. <\/p>\n<p>Never question that his acts were at great PERSONAL risk, not just financial).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PamKeithFL\/status\/1382702419428139012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Favre added that none of this was an issue when he was playing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn fact, that was sort of our protected space, if you will, where we could kind of let our guard down,\u201d Favre continued. \u201cWe were in something together. We fought together. We won together. We lost together. We were truly a family. To answer your question, we absolutely didn\u2019t have issues.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Favre went on to discuss his support for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, and the controversy that surrounded his support.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI knew that it was going to create a firestorm by first playing golf with the president,\u201d Favre said. \u2018Which I thought was an honor regardless of who that president is. And by tweeting my support for then President Trump, I knew that would create some more issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut again, I go back to the people that know me and would speak on my behalf in a positive light. I really don\u2019t worry about it a whole lot. It\u2019s a shame that we\u2019ve come to this.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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