The reddit of all NRL """journalists""" is trying to meme American bullshit into existence
It's never enough for these malcontents. They get Macklemore, they get the NRL to come out on their side, but now the players need to be encouraged to "think right".
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Let's throw a hypothetical at you …
It's Sunday night and the crowd of 83,000 at ANZ Stadium is getting restless.
We're minutes away from the NRL grand final between Melbourne and North Queensland. Millions of people around the world – yes, the world! – are watching.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for the national anthem …
As former Australian Idol contestant Ricki-Lee takes the microphone and channels her inner Julie Anthony, a ripple of discontent can be heard in the crowd.
Not everyone is standing. Both teams are lined up, facing the grandstand, but Storm players Will Chambers and Josh Addo-Carr have taken a knee, their heads lowered.
Both players are Indigenous and long after the match they explain to reporters huddled around them that they took this stance because they could no longer tolerate important issues about the treatment of their people being swept aside.
This month, the United Nations condemned Australia for its extraordinarily high rate of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as a "major human rights concern".
So said the UN's Victoria Tauli-Corpu: "There have been allegations of serious abuses, including violent strip-searches, teargassing, hooding and prolonged isolation committed against Aboriginal children in custody."
In the past month, Shane Flanagan's spray of the referees, Darius Boyd's hamstring, and Des Hasler's sacking have garnered more attention.
Now, because of the simple gesture of two footballers, it is the issue everyone is talking about. Not just rugby league, but the country. The world starts watching, too.
As I said, this is a hypothetical scenario but it's worth investigating in the week when the smallest of issues will be splashed all over our newspapers with headlines in war type.
Josh Addo Carr will do it
It's also worth investigating because of US President Donald Trump, who launched a bizarre three-day campaign calling on NFL players to be sacked if they protested during their national anthem because of police brutality and racial inequality relating to African-Americans.
Said Trump at a rally last Friday: "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now'? Out. He's fired. He's fired!"
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started this conversation last season when he dropped down on one knee during the national anthem.
Now it's a movement. In light of Trump's comments, more than a hundred NFL players dropped a knee or stayed in the locker room at the weekend.
Other players and officials locked arms in a display of solidarity for their black teammates. Team owners, including Trump's close friend, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, condemned the President's inflammatory words.
Too late. The issue had already caught fire. NBA stars LeBron James and Steph Curry weighed in. Then this from Golden State's coach Stephen Kerr: "Well, you know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism."
Trump has already told the NBA champions won't be welcomed at the White House.
The relevance of this for Australia is that it will drag out the standard response: "Stick to sports. That's what you're paid to do."
Many argue sport and politics should not mix. I'm trying to remember a time when they haven't.
A week ago, Australia's major codes declared they were backing same-sex marriage. Only the Australian Olympic Committee said it would not.
Fans and players and officials are free to vote whichever way they want, but the respective governing bodies believed they had an obligation to support equality, inclusion and acceptance of everyone.
Sam Newman wasn't having a bar of it.
On last Thursday's AFL Footy Show, he looked down the barrel of the camera, squared up the AFL and bellowed: "For god's sake, there's a plebiscite going on in the country! What right have you got to say what people should be doing? You are nothing more than obsequious, fawning, sycophantic political whores. You have no right to get involved in political messages. Let people go to the football and do what they want to do: just watch the game."
Co-host Eddie McGuire countered: "If you don't stand for something you stand for nothing."
NRL Footy Show co-host Erin Molan backed up Newman's stance.
"My reluctance is that sporting codes represent thousands of people and I am very against any of them feeling cut off as a result of that code coming out in favour," she said. "What about the people who work within the AFL who don't believe in same-sex marriage, who now feel alienated and not part of their sporting code?"
Apparently, under this premise, those who feel alienated by the AFL not backing same-sex marriage do not matter. Where some see a political issue, others see a basic human rights issue. Where some see the divisiveness of a sporting code making a stance, others see it bringing the game closer together.
Adam Goodes took a stance about racism and the backlash effectively ran him out of the game. Critics still claim the 13-year-old Collingwood supporter who called him an "ape" is the real victim.
Only with time – usually decades – does adulation come to those sportspeople who decide they're in a position of power to make a difference for the greater good.
Muhammad Ali had many fights in and out of the ring, but those in the name of civil rights made him a reviled figure in his day, a legend only years later.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously wore black gloves on clenched fists and raised them into the air on the medal dais after the 200m men's final at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
As they left the stadium, they were booed and racist insults fired at them.
Said Carlos only recently: "I had a moral obligation to step up. Morality was a far greater force than the rules and regulations they had."
The man who came second in that race, Australia's Peter Norman, had been completely supportive in what Smith and Carlos were doing. He never competed at another Olympics and slipped into a deep depression. Australian sport forgot him.
Only in recent years, and following his death in 2006, has he been recognised for playing such an important role in an important protest.
Stick to sport or drop a knee and send a message about what's right and wrong? Or, at the very least, start an important conversation?
Last word to Nelson Mandela, who probably understood it better than all of us: "Sport has the power to change to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair, it is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers."
delete this
Shut the fuck up.
getting pretty geed up to never watch NRL again
they dont know my autism like i do, i stop talking to friends ive known for 10 years just for a percieved slight
The match officials for the grand final are:
Lead Referee: Matt Cecchin
Assist Referee: Gerard Sutton
Senior Review Official: Bernard Sutton
Review Official: Ben Galea
Touch Judges: Nick Beashel and Chris Butler
Standby Referee: Ben Cummins
Standby Touch Judge: Brett Suttor
>tfw so brave same love ;__;
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>not one woman
We support gay marriage not sexual equality here at Sup Forums
>ayo... if you dont think that a guy sucking another guys dick is beautiful... fuck u
Daily reminder
Me on the right wing
FRIENDSHIP WITH VONNIE OVER
ERIN MY BEST FRIEND NOW
Remember when sports was about blokes kicking a ball around and not about fags and politics.
LawGOD remembers. LawGOD voted yes for gay marriage because it's the right thing to do however when LawGOD watches sport with his completly platonic friend who is a girl he just wants to enjoy watching the coconuts do mad tricks on the field and run circles around the little white guys. That's all LawGOD wants.
LawGOD out.
P.S Storm (my team) are going to win. Based Slater ftw.
lawgod here
im voting no because you can have gay marriage in defacto
met a girl yesterday who is voting no, fell in love
REMINDER with all the debate about gay marriage and macklmore singing suck my dick before the NRL grand final the Melbourne Pozz will be unable to focus on the game and will be wrapped with thoughts of SSM being illegal and will NOT be able to perform and WILL lose!
Please don't impersonate me and no I won't be puppet mastered into putting my trip on again.
If gays want to get married so much why don't they just pair up with a lesbian couple?
macklmore ill let you field this question for our homophobic neighbours
Kerr is a dumbass though. No black person thinks America ever stood for non-racism ( they aren’t wrong when our nation was set up specifically for white men of good character).
Look at the size of this cunts shoulders.
journalists arent the brightest bunch
i think theyre the dumb kids who didnt wanna be tradies but couldnt hack being in business
Journalist here, getting bullied lads
i studied media so i know a fair few journos
all of them are pretty stupid, like theres no original thinking going on, its just about parroting the editors wishes and mocking up some words to make it pretty
its basically PR for current events
actually its literally PR for current events
Most jobs are about parroting what the boss says tbf
>literally parroting a pedestrian opinion already posted by another person in this very thread
Reminder that Andrew Webster is literally a raving faggot and he once wrote a sob story about being called a poofta
If the Titans can beat the Storm anyone can.
Did the Pootans only win during the origin when all the good poorm players were playing in origin though?
they beat a full strength melbourne at suncorp stadium. you would know this if you weren't a seething casual.
How does Slater write his books when there are two sets
Going to take a knee and squeeze out a poo during Macklemore's halftime performance
Fuck you virgin, I watched every single game, my memory is just for shit
it's a PREGAME performance, you utter casual
>an aussie that cant handle even the slightest of bantz
How could he even survive this long
I'll put my PREGAME up your arse so hard that I'll cum on every spoonful of weet bix you have for breakfast cunt
why do they need pre match entertainement
get a load of this seething casual who didn't watch every game and know the titans beat a full strength melbourne and now he's sperging out because he thought it was a halftime show not pregame
how embarrassing
why do they need pre match propoganda
lads how do we meme the polynesian players into wearing armbands and shit for religious rights
actually maybe just get them to wear the sign of the cross on their arm
make them marxists look like right cunts given most players on the field will be polynesian christians opposing ssm
We'll have so much halftime yes sex that it'll LITERALLY add 50 points to the StormGODS via osmosis you post match posting fuck
>tfw they do it for him
gonna shove my premiership ring right in fatt scott's ugly mug lads
she didnt reply lads
Vote No
I literally voted no lads
>tfw too dumb to use reddit
the thinking man votes no
>isn't anti-religious
>wants to change a religious institution
hurrrrrrr
Voted yes and I think the Storm will win
marriage isnt religious lad XD
>then what is it?
a legal thing!
>then why is it man and woman?
cause the laws fucked and discriminatory!
>then why dont we just let 3 men get married?
THATS NOT THE ISSUE ITS ABOUT LOVE YOURE TRYING TO USE THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
betas cant hack the truth
>Dally Messenger III – Messenger's grandson – says he has written to NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg for the past two years asking to be involved in rugby league's night of nights, only to be turned down each time.
i dont like this todd cunt hey