Mark Herzlich invites President Trump to national anthem discussion
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5/29/2018 1:39:42 PM
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A veteran Giants leader has invited President Donald Trump to visit the team and engage in a productive dialogue about NFL players' intentions, actions and origins in this national anthem debate, Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News reports.
Linebacker Mark Herzlich, who is part of the NFL Players' Association leadership council that has met frequently with league leaders on the subject, said Tuesday afternoon following the club's fourth OTA practice in East Rutherford that he "would love Trump to come down" and see what an NFL locker room really is all about.
While there have been reports of NFL players potentially boycotting the 2018 season in response to both a new league policy requiring players to stand and the continued unemployment of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, Herzlich said the issue is about so much more than one man, politics or patriotism.
And he has invited the President — who said last week that players who kneel during the anthem "shouldn't be in the country" — to come see so for himself.
"I think the best way to handle remarks like that is it's not necessarily a push back against his remarks. It's to maintain the focus on the real issue," Herzlich said. "The real issue isn't players being against a president or against a country. It's about players being for unity, and they want to create an atmosphere with law enforcement, with others in their community that we share in the locker room.
"You go in the locker room and guys from every single race, every single demographic, every single religious background, and we all are just a team," Herzlich continued. "And so I think we see that, what's possible. And I would love Trump to come down here and hang out in our locker room and see what locker room talk's really about, and talking about our night nurses and our babies — this is what we talk about, it's a family."
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May
29
5/29/2018 1:39:42 PM
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A veteran Giants leader has invited President Donald Trump to visit the team and engage in a productive dialogue about NFL players' intentions, actions and origins in this national anthem debate, Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News reports.
Linebacker Mark Herzlich, who is part of the NFL Players' Association leadership council that has met frequently with league leaders on the subject, said Tuesday afternoon following the club's fourth OTA practice in East Rutherford that he "would love Trump to come down" and see what an NFL locker room really is all about.
While there have been reports of NFL players potentially boycotting the 2018 season in response to both a new league policy requiring players to stand and the continued unemployment of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, Herzlich said the issue is about so much more than one man, politics or patriotism.
And he has invited the President — who said last week that players who kneel during the anthem "shouldn't be in the country" — to come see so for himself.
"I think the best way to handle remarks like that is it's not necessarily a push back against his remarks. It's to maintain the focus on the real issue," Herzlich said. "The real issue isn't players being against a president or against a country. It's about players being for unity, and they want to create an atmosphere with law enforcement, with others in their community that we share in the locker room.
"You go in the locker room and guys from every single race, every single demographic, every single religious background, and we all are just a team," Herzlich continued. "And so I think we see that, what's possible. And I would love Trump to come down here and hang out in our locker room and see what locker room talk's really about, and talking about our night nurses and our babies — this is what we talk about, it's a family."
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