Flags on helmets

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Buster

Drop the touchy-feeling PC crap. If you accidentally hit someone with your car and hurt them badly, you shouldn't be left off the hook because you didn't INTEND to break their bones. If you accidentally vote for the wrong person, the vote still counts.

It's not a military issue, it's a responsibility and respect issue for the nation that gave you football in the first place.

I guess Urlacher's fine should be dropped because he didn't "intend" for Gatorade and the league to be offended, huh?

That's pretty dumb. The LAW states that if you are at fault in an accident, you are financially liable and to the extent that you were negligent, criminally liable. The LAW is cut and dry on this.

On Urlacher, the NFL has a RULE that states if you wear a nonsponsored item to an NFL event, you get fined. Again, cut and dry.

This whole flag thing is based on a CODE. Not a law, not a rule. A code. There is a big difference. That code may be taken very seriously within the military, and that's fine. But outside of the military and the Boy Scouts of America, very few people are familiar with the code, let alone care strongly about it. The LAW is generally accepted by all citizens, because if you break it, you get punished. The NFL's RULES are generally accepted by all players because the CBA which they signed said so. This flag code is not generally accepted by the public. The reason that we haven't heard squat on the news regarding the NFL helmet flags is because nobody cares if the flag is facing front or backwards. They just see the flag and think oh cool, they're supporting the United States. Only a select few are anal enough to get their panties in a bunch over this.

The news media LOVES to make a controversy over things when there really isn't one. This is such a non-issue to people that not a single news outlet has run with a story alledging that the NFL is being disrespectful.