Reports
say that former football quarterback Payton Manning may be interested
in running for the Senate seat that Tennessee Republican Bob Corker
is leaving. Manning has a reputation as a somewhat brainy
quarterback, hence he may be as able as former quarterback of the
Bills Jack Kemp at negotiating his way through politics.
It
is an irony that the NFL is somewhat unpatriotic in pr these days full of youth socialized during the Obama
administration to take a knee during the national anthem to protest
the state of race relations of police in the U.S.A. I wonder if
people expect too much from those (police) high school graduates and shouldn’t
look elsewhere for solutions to law enforcement procedure problems;
such as eliminating poverty.
If each NFL player that takes a free knee during the national anthem were instead to contribute $50,000 to the United Negro College Fund each game it would probably produce better results and scholars than were NFL players on football scholarships.
