Meriweather On Anthem Protests: Situation Has Gotten Out Of Hand
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Former Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather joined Toucher & Rich to discuss the silent protests going on during the national anthem across the NFL. Meriweather said he would have knelt with his teammates, and believes most are looking at the protests in the wrong light. The players are not disrespecting the flag or military, but trying to bring awareness to the injustices in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, 985, the sports, we're touch for and Rich. |
| 0:03.2 | We're on CSN television, and that is Brandon Meriwether, of course. And Brandon Maryweather, kind enough to join us every Wednesday. At this time, he's brought to you by work in gear. Work in gear. You need it. They've got it. Brandon, hello, sir. What's up? Y'all? what's good. Oh, it's all good. |
| 0:34.3 | I'll tell you this, is that today we are getting in touch with Comcast, CSN, here in Boston, to pitch you and some ideas and to get you up here. |
| 0:36.6 | I make it happen. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah. Well, I'm dead serious. |
| 0:39.2 | It's, uh, it would be, you would be auditioning for the football shows, and we also |
| 0:43.9 | have an idea for a show with you in Waldeck. |
| 0:47.9 | Oh, that was up. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.1 | We don't know the exact name, but we probably going to call it brandon and the bird |
| 0:55.6 | because that's the nickname and we're going to bring you to different places some of the ones |
| 1:00.0 | that were thrown out there was the two of you guys would go to the symphony together |
| 1:02.8 | you could go to a dungeons and dragons uh game |
| 1:06.8 | because hey i'm with it man let's make it happen. All right. Right. Well, we like the enthusiasm. We have heard from people from CSN now, not the people in charge, but we've heard people from CSN that want this to happen. So we're going to start pursuing it for real today. We're reaching out to the big buddies the big guys let's make it happen |
| 1:27.9 | all right good so what's all been going through well i'll tell you it's a struggle every day brandon |
| 1:35.2 | just to stay alone hold on hold on listen man i just i was listening to y'all just now did adida really do |
| 1:42.0 | that uh yeah adidas yeah they um so apparently what happened is adidas was going to now. Did Adidas really do that? Yeah, Adidas? Yeah. |
| 1:44.7 | Yes. |
| 1:50.1 | So apparently what happened is Adidas was going to these schools and giving them a lot of money, |
| 1:54.8 | and the school was in turn giving these players money in order to have them. The head of Adidas, the global marketing, was paying recruits six figures |
| 1:59.4 | to steer them in the direction of programs that wore Adidas apparel. |
| 2:06.0 | Does that make you nostalgic for Miami? |
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