GLENDALE, Ariz.
— Maybe Jerry Jones finally set the http://www.officialsteelersprosale.com/cobi-hamilton-jerseys-c-1_46.html record straight by taking a knee.
Or at least, when kneeling alongside his players before the national anthem Monday night, Brice Butler hopes the Dallas Cowboys owner debunked a widely circulated myth that spread on social media with memes and fabricated stories that maintained Jones banned anthem protests by his players.
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For all the people circulating that fake message on social media — talking about what he said — I heard it all day, and it pissed me off,” Butler, one of Dallas' backup receivers, said after the 28-17 victory against the Arizona Cardinals.More: Donald Trump calls for NFL to create rule mandating players stand for national anthem
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Don’t believe everything that’s on the Internet.”The Cowboys
’ creative demonstration — after kneeling before the anthem, the team locked arms during The Star-Spangled Banner — sought to acknowledge both sides of an issue began last year as a peaceful protest by former San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick but morphed into controversy. Kaepernick’s protest sought to raise awareness about racial inequality, social injustice and police brutality in the wake of multiple killings of unarmed African-Americans but was perceived by many as disrespectful to the American flag and military.With the Cowboys not having a single player protest, and
http://www.authenticsteelerssales.com/eli-rogers-jersey-c-1_63.html Jones effusively expressing pride in that while repeatedly reiterating his belief that the anthem is sacred, the false narratives about warnings from the team
’s flamboyant owner found life on the web.“
You get emotional people at home that want something,” Butler said. “It just sucked to see that going around.”
