NFL says players can wear red, white and blue on 9/11

What does 9/11 have to do with politics?

What doesnt it have to do with politics?

I heard the Giants were gonna wear red, white, and blue uni's tomorrow. Oh wait...

Why? It isn't a national holiday. It is observed, yeah, but it isn't a holiday like July 4th, etc. Besides, if you were to mourn, you should wear black. You should be remembering the people that were lost that day, not doing the rah, rah, rah USA USA stuff. That is what we did with Pearl Harbor, remembered those who lost their lives after the war was over. We didn't cheapen it to a national lovefest.

On the 10th Anniversary I think red/white/blue should be mandatory, It's the 10th Anniversary. Happened on American soil why not red/white/blue. Really if you want to mourn IMO no games should be played but if where going to play then red/white/blue it is.

I heard the Giants were gonna wear red, white, and blue uni's tomorrow. Oh wait...

They should all be fined. :)

Wrong. Try foreign policy.

I have al Qaeda's stated goal as follows: 'establishment of a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world (http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html)' (http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html).

I suppose if protecting ourselves from that is a Foriegn Policy faux pas then, yeah, we're 'just asking for trouble'.....

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Not sure who's on Twitter, but Adam Carriker just posted an awsome tweet about remembering 911, prayers for the families, and leaving it all on the field tomorrow for country and team. A few other Skins seemed really psyched too.

Adam Carriker is a cool dude to follow on Twitter. He's actually responded to a couple of my Tweets to him.

I have al Qaeda's stated goal as follows: 'establishment of a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world (http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html)' (http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html).

I suppose if protecting ourselves from that is a Foriegn Policy faux pas then, yeah, we're 'just asking for trouble'.....

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If you want to talk about this, start a thread in the Off Topic forums and I'll discuss it, not going to in the football forums. That said, your link shows nothing.

Well, from what I've seen the last few seasons, I would not say they were too smart to fine players over this. Frankly the fines have been getting ridiculous over clean hits, players showing deceased players respect (Tilman) etc. Glad they relented on this.

Yeah but with other fines it's always been about the individual. This is an issue that affects a lot of players over the entire league. The Commish will never be afraid to chuck a big fine towards one player, superstar or not. Lance Briggs isn't the only one who got special equipment and had plans to wear it.

With all that being said, I like you and respect your opinions. Welcome to the board!

I have al Qaeda's stated goal as follows: 'establishment of a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world (http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html)' (http://www.terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html).

I suppose if protecting ourselves from that is a Foriegn Policy faux pas then, yeah, we're 'just asking for trouble'.....

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You make a good point, as does nonniey above. Obviously it is mistaken to argue, as others have done, that the al Qaeda problem is ONLY a result of US foreign policy. That is overly simplistic.

That said, there are reasons why al Qaeda is so fixated on attacking the USA rather than other "unIslamic" states such as, say for example, Uruguay. We have made foreign policy errors in the Muslim world going all the way back at least to the orchestrated overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953.

It is not just that we stand in the way of al Qaeda's unrealistic dream of a pan-Islamic empire because we are so powerful. We also have made some mistakes.

I tend to agree with you Gus. It is a day of remembrance. It should not be anything other than that. It was a terrible day in our nations history.

I agree 100% with you both. It is such a terrible dark day in USA history, that I get upset whenever the news covers it each year and when they write everything about it. It's just one of those things that is so bad that I dont think anybody should put it on TV again and again. It must be hard for the victims of 9/11 to gain any kind of peace when the media and everybody are ramming it down their throats.

I might be in the minority but I think TV and retail stores are still milking 9/11 for any money that they can make off it. It makes me mad to go into a place like Wal-Mart or somewhere like that where they have millions of T-shirts on racks that say "9/11 we'll never forget" and the shirt is made in bangladesh or some other p.o.s. country a million miles away and none of the money even goes to a charity or anything like that for victims of 9/11.

I remember also when Snyder put out the 9/11 Commemorative Redskins Hat that had a little flag on the side of it and it was like 40 bucks or something. I thought it was deplorable that he would try to make a buck off all those lost lives.

I agree with patriotism, believe me, but it has its place. And I dont think on the anniversary of the nation's worst tragedy everybody should be all rah rah rah with the red white and blue. People should wear black, because it is a time of mourning, IMO.