Apparently Fox Sports 1 isn’t looking to pick up any people who are sick of the left wing politicking at ESPN. Fox Sports 1 appears to be equally as bad as ESPN, with Shannon Sharpe calling the American flag racist, a piece of cloth and something “no one fights for.” Not only did you have those Shannon Sharpe comments, but you also had him and another reject from ESPN, Skip Bayless bashing Green Bay Packer fans who refused to join in that little stunt of locking arms with each other during the national anthem on Thursday. Sharpe and Bayless bashed Packer fan’s “heartland patriotism.”
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While Bayless broke with Sharpe over his attacks on the American flag, Bayless was in lockstep.
He fretted that he “was shocked by what I did not see in the stands in Green Bay, Wisconsin at Lambeau Field last night” by having “fully expected to see about 82,000 people lock arms because the leader of Packer nation, the great Aaron Rodgers, the mayor of Green Bay, the Governor of Wisconsin, the maestro of all things Packers, the Pied Piper had — it was beyond a request.”
“He had all but ordered everybody in the stadium let’s just do this, let’s lock arms,” he added.
Just as Sharpe mocked Packers fans chanting U-S-A, Bayless bemoaned how “vast portions of the stadium in which people were just standing alone with hand over heart, no locked arms” and, my goodness, “going so far as to go beyond hand over heart.”
“They were saluting the flag, almost like they were rebelling against the request to lock arms. Saluting the flag. What…I just didn’t see this one coming. So, it enlightened me. I’m not saying in a positive way. It just enlightened me to the bottom line…Donald Trump…did win the state of Wisconsin and it felt like he won again last night. That’s how it came across or maybe I go bigger picture. Maybe heartland patriotism won last night. That’s what was on display,” Bayless callously argued.
The former First Take star took a shot at Rodgers for reportedly giving tickets to police officers and also admitted that he realized Thursday night “that too many white Americans immediately close their eyes and their ears and their hearts and their minds to the message.”