Mike Tomlin, head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has issued a mandate to all of his players for the upcoming season: there will be no kneeling on the field.<\/p>\n
Tomlin\u2019s statement came as a shock to the team, since the Steelers have been the team with the largest number of unpatriotic kneelers since the crisis began in 2017.<\/p>\n
Tomlin says he\u2019s tired of people hating America and not being able to stand and recognize a song for 2 minutes once a week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just silly,\u201d Tomlin told reporters, \u201cI can\u2019t stand seeing it.\u201d Three other coaches confirm that Tomlin is vehemently opposed to kneeling on the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can\u2019t stand it,\u201d said assistant place-kicker coach Joe Barron, \u201cit makes my job tough, but we\u2019ve managed to get two players to hold snaps without their knees touching the ground,\u201d Barron said it\u2019s a good thing you only have to wave for a fair catch these days. Quarterback coach Art Tubolls says Ben Roethlisberger wouldn\u2019t have been a fan of the new \u201cfaceplant\u201d technique of taking a knee to end a half \u2014 or the game, but the younger players seem alright with it.<\/p>\n
Several players have expressed concern that Tomlin\u2019s odd issue with kneeling of any kind could also interfere with pre-game and touchdown prayers. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t seem logical to ban all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll have to wait and see how it plays out, but thank you, sir, for thinking of America first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mike Tomlin, head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has issued a mandate to all of his players for the upcoming season: there will be no kneeling on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}