Lou Holtz: Kneeling NFL Players Should Instead Mentor at-Risk Communities, ‘That Would Be More Effective’
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MacDONALD: "Bringing in football legend, coach Lou Holtz."
HOLTZ: "Thank you, Liz."
MacDONALD: "I want your reaction to Goodell saying, not changing anthem policy."
HOLTZ: "First of all, realize he has 32 bosses, his contract is up, he has done a tremendous job for NFL, they will decide whether his contract will be extended. When you displen a player say he can't play for 4 games, you upset owners, he trying to pacify the owners, he is not making a statement, except of ma is best interest of the league he feels at the time.
MacDONALD: "Joe Namath said, he agrees about speaking out about social interrupt is -- injustice, but saying, playing the game is their job, they should not use the football field as their stage for any cause."
HOLTZ: "I agree, but you important thing to remember he has 32 owners, he does not want to say it is mandatory, everyone will stand, you have the owner of Jacksonville said that president Trump is mad because high didn't get Buffalo bill franchise in 2014, he is trying to walk a thin line, and it a difficult one because it not a popular position with the rest of the people, including Lou Holtz."
MacDONALD: "Do you think that football players should stand?"
HOLTZ: "Absolutely. I do. I think that is your work place there, your workplace, and Supreme Court as ruled that you can't work for Walmart and say negative things about it, you don't have free speech to do that to hurt the owner, et cetera. I agree, we have a lot of problem in this country we should have resolved but a football field is not the place to do it if you want to do something positive, take all 32 teams and go to inner-city and teach younger people how to make good choices that would be more productive than kneeling for national anthem. I have been in service, I have been abroad, and visited troops, I know many NFL players, exoo and coaches have done so, but you kneel, you say I'm against the flag, that not right.
