{"id":84625,"date":"2017-09-26T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84625"},"modified":"2017-09-26T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:39:13","slug":"crowd-boos-as-entire-cowboys-team-owner-g-m-take-a-knee-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84625","title":{"rendered":"Crowd Boos As Entire Cowboys Team, Owner, &#038; G.M. &#8216;Take A Knee&#8217; In Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent demonstration of unity, the<strong>\u00a0entire Dallas Cowboys team, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, as well as executive vice presidents Stephen Jones, Charlotte Anderson and Jerry Jones Jr.,<\/strong>\u00a0all decided to &#8216;take a knee&#8217;, notably before the national anthem was sung.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/23\/20170925_cowboys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/23\/20170925_cowboys_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boos were heard from the crowd in Arizona which reportedly included a large number of Dallas fans&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones locked arms and took a knee in unity prior to the national anthem <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/7kK3qVMDSo\">pic.twitter.com\/7kK3qVMDSo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sports Illustrated (@SInow) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SInow\/status\/912473528351559680\">September 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;as they take a knee collectively, boos can be heard from this sell-out crowd in Arizona&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/20819786\/dallas-cowboys-arizona-cardinals-lock-arms-monday-night-football-game\">ESPN reports,<\/a>\u00a0Jerry Jones and his daughter, Charlotte Jones Anderson, said their players wanted to take a knee as a statement for equality and unity, but also wanted to separate that message from the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>A little less than an hour before kickoff, Jerry Jones said\u00a0<strong>he respected the players &#8220;individually and collectively,&#8221; but he did not want to get into the political element of the debate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We want them to do what&#8217;s in the best interest of the Dallas Cowboys,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s where the obligation is and again I don&#8217;t want to get into this area of debate\u00a0<strong>but I do want to emphasize how important it is to me that we respect the sanctity of the flag<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Jones was one of seven NFL owners to donate to Trump&#8217;s inauguration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-25\/crowd-boos-entire-cowboys-team-owner-gm-take-knee-arizona\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-25\/crowd-boos-entire-cowboys-team-owner-gm-take-knee-arizona<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}