A man held a jersey-burning party where New England Patriots merchandise was burned in a bonfire in Massachusetts after this week’s game.
“I think it was a great success,” said Shane via WBZ. “I think people were united, I think people love our country and I think it sends a great message to the NFL and any divisive type actions will not be tolerated during sports.”
“It upsets me that they, I understand we do have issues with this county [sic] that need to be resolved and I think that’s not the platform to be doing it,” said event attendee Andy Lavoie, when asked about the pre-game protests.
“Some of those young kids they don’t know what us old guys went through,” said jersey burner Arthur Dallaire, on the anthem protests.
The fans who hauled in their jerseys, shirts, and other Patriots clothing didn’t burn everything. They burned a portion and gathered the rest to be donated to recent hurricane victims.
“First and foremost, we hate that people are going to see it as that we don’t respect the military and the men and women that are way braver than us that go and put their life on the line every day for us to have the right to play football, and we know people are going to see it that way,” said team captain Devin McCourty.
Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady had little to say about the protests.“I believe love is the greatest thing we have to overcome a lot of things,” said Brady. He stood for the anthem with his hand over his heart, but also locked arms with his teammates. Brady was conspicuously absent when the Patriots celebrated their super bowl win at the White House this past April. The team was highly praised by President Trump during the visit.
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