Linking arms is meaningless but kneeling is deeply meaningful?

So it’s the delusion of fans holding the USMNT back and not the lack of talent? Dang it everybody! STOP BEING DELUSIONAL!!

So if fans stop being delusional the USMNT will play better? That's a weird correlation you drew there.

I used to live just south of Redhook. Can confirm. It sucked.
Eat shit, janky ass R train.

Yeah, I don’t understand the hate expressed for certain places (such as the ENTIRE South) in so many articles here. I know that being biased against Southerners is one of the few “allowed” biases left (well, that and bias against overweight people), but come on, man. Give it a freaking rest.

Let you in on a little secret. Not everyone living in NYC thinks it is awesome. It just happens to be the center for a lot of different professions. I would say 30-40% of my circle hate it here.

You write great stuff most of the time. But this is tripe:

Must be hard to be an American.

I feel for your situation. Ultimately when someone judges you, it’s not you who has the problem but the people doing the judging, but that’s beside the point.

Probably because a Chaplain doesn’t influence any decisions as far as the military goes. The separation of Church and State ensures laws created by the state are not religious in nature. A chaplain is there for religious support, counseling...etc...etc. No one forces anyone in the military to participate. There…

I’m a devout Missouri-Synod Lutheran and I agree that if you don’t want to participate, then don’t.

Do you even know what the first amendment says? Because the first amendment in regards to religion is followed exactly. The government can not and has not established a state religion nor was this prayer impeding on anyone's right to freely practice the religion of their choice. That is all the first amendment says…

Asked my cousin who graduated from there not so long ago (and happens to be Jewish, yea big surprise based on my last name) about this...he said Mikey Weinstein is a whiny shit who few agree with or like. The vast vast vast majority of non-Christians there think this is such an unnecessary fight and frankly don’t want…

99.9% of the time religious people who complain about the loss of their rights and over the top PC are full of it...it’s things like this that continue to fuel their fire and give them a semblance legitimacy in the eyes of normal people.

We always had a chaplain not employed by the school leading the prayer and I’m pretty sure our head coach was not that religious so in my case it didn’t really feel the same. However, I can totally see that being the case at a lot of places. Hell, one of the guys on our team was Muslim so it wasn’t that big of a deal…

I'm a huge Navy football fan and a total atheist, yet this is just silly.

As someone who grew up in the south playings sports I always had to sit through the lords prayer after games. I hated it, i knew if there were a God fottball games was the last thing on his mind. But seeing the reaction to someone saying a prayer is just as stupid as the prayer its self. Who gives a fuck? Take the 10…

First of all, I’m an atheist that was raised in a Mormon household. With that out of the way: If a team wants to have a team prayer (just like my family does), go right ahead. A prayer in and of itself should not be a problem. If a player doesn’t want to participate, do what I do: sit there and wait a while. A prayer…

As a non religious person in a college locker room during prayers, I was never really uncomfortable or felt like I was forced to participate. I just kind of looked around until they finished most of the time, it should definitely be an optional activity.

For clarity’s sake, had he said “if you’d like to join me in a prayer right now...” This would have been fine?