Cross the Steelers and Raiders off the list.
Honestly, the lone O-lineman who was a three-tour Army Ranger and who stood for the anthem, made every other man on that team look like petty cowards.
"Since they couldn’t come to a consensus, Pittsburgh players and coaches were supposed to stay in the locker room, though it was later amended to the team’s tunnel near the Soldier Field turf because of timing.
Regardless, Villanueva has become an overnight hero.
As noted by ESPN’s Darren Rovell, Villanueva’s No. 78 Steelers jersey is currently the sixth-best selling and searched jersey on NFLShop.com." -yahoo sports
And the comments other Steelers are making today make them look sooooooo much worse. Like, honestly, you all looked like idiots. Stop talking and compounding the situation.
“We thought we were all in attention with the same agreement, obviously, ”
longtime Steelers star linebacker James Harrison told Penn Live. “But, I guess we weren’t.”
More than anything, the other Steelers seemed confused.
“I don’t want to go into that, but we support our guy Al,” defensive end Cam Heyward said about Villanueva, who did not talk to media after the game. “He feels he had to do it. This guy served our country, and we thank him for it.”
Head coach Mike Tomlin said the team held a players-only meeting Saturday to discuss their options. Whatever they did, Tomlin said, they would do 100 percent. They could not come to an agreement whether to stand, sit or kneel as a team, and so they decided to abstain from the anthem entirely (which was then construed as its own protest, such is the pick-a-side nature of the situation): “I was looking for 100 percent participation, we were gonna be respectful of our football team,” Tomlin told reporters when asked about Villanueva after the Steelers’ 23-17 overtime loss."
Sooooo, Tomlin was compelling the players who wanted to stand to abstain instead?
