Big Bob currently under fire: "Cant let the inmates run the prison"

It's still objectively stupid to get offended by an idiom that you choose to take literally even after you've been told it was an idiom and had someone spell out to you what an idiom is.

I honestly can't believe that we have people trying to defend the players' reaction to something inoffensive.....then again, I do consistently give people far too much credit.

 

Bob McNair didn't invent football. He didn't make it a game dangerous for head injuries. He has held on to a black GM whom over 75% of his fans want gone.

He DOES want to keep making money. He doesn't want the players to prevent money from being made. Everyone, players, owners, and concession workers benefits when popularity increases.

Please don't bring your crusade against football head injuries into this. I know that is an issue with you being that I'm the same pgabriel who has read your posts for years.

 

Looks like they need a new spokesman

 

This whole thing is ****ing staged

 

We dont believe you...you need more people.

 

So apparently no players accept his position that he was talking about the league office making important decisions affecting bottom lines of the owners pockets without enough input from owners, even though the league office works for the owners.

First of all, its just a figure of speech. Second of all, he claims he wasnt even talking about the players right there.

Bizarre situation tbh

 

Jerry Jones: Bob McNair is a high-quality individual; his 'inmates' comment was not about NFL players

Jerry Jones was in the room earlier this month when Houston Texans owner Bob McNair made a comment about the "inmates running the prison."
Jones is adamant that McNair was not talking about NFL players when he said those words during the owners meetings.

McNair has since apologized publicly and to the team and said he was referring to the relationship between the league office and team owners.

"Bob is one of the absolute most admired people, as far as the ownership, there is in the NFL," Jones said Tuesday morning on 105.3 The Fan's Shan and RJ show [KRLD-FM]. "And I know what Bob's stature is in Houston. He brought football back to Houston. It's so unfortunate that he's had this happen for him. But he's really a guy that has a lot of influence and I admire him greatly. I know that I did hear [him]. I heard him. He did not and was not talking about the players."

Jones later described how McNair was completely on board with canceling the Texans' final preseason game against the Cowboys in August so the players could be with their families following Hurricane Harvey.

"Bob was absolutely a hero when we had our preseason game," Jones said. "And, boy, all the players wanted to go home, which they should, and it was natural. But Bob McNair says, 'I don't care what it costs,' because the owner is responsible. The team that doesn't cause the game to happen is responsible for all the money that might be lost for not having the game. And Bob says, 'I don't care what it costs. I'll pay it. My players want to go home. I want them to go home to Houston.'

"I just can't tell you how magnanimous he is. He's one of the really great benefactors to Houston and to anybody that's been around him. This is really unfortunate the way that it came out. He's the first to tell you that he misused words, but it's so unfortunate because he's a high-quality individual."​

 

We need a transcript of what was said to determine the actual context. Without that, Bob sounds like he is bullshitting, but it shouldn’t make any difference because the whole damn thing is just ridiculous anyway.

 

Not according to media who have spoken directly to the players.

The "big deal" was being made by Duane Brown, and that was about getting himself a job on the left coast and more money.

 

I hope so. It certainly seemed like the media and a lot of players had deaf ears to his explanation and were just ready to grab pitchforks.

 

Read the article.

There weren't any players in the room.

Owners were meeting with Goodell's League Office. Jerry Jones and Troy Vincent -- the offended party who works for Goodell -- got into an open argument about who gets to make certain decisions and Jones told him the owners would be voting on these decisions, not Goodell & Co. making decisions without owner involvement. That's when McNair said what he said... not to a player, to a Goodell underling.

 

I fully agree. Who was it that leaked the partial conversation? Does the League even keep transcripts of these meetings?

 

It's pointless to argue with people who find a reason to protest anything and everything at the most inappropriate time, just to piss off and offend people who weren't even part of the issue to begin with. At least Mr. McNair apologized to the Texans players for something he didn't say to them, direct at them, or intend to be taken literally. He apologized for how it made them feel regardless. The Texans show they stand behind each other or other NFL players by locking arms in solidarity, kneeling, or sitting during the anthem. Who they offend doing it doesn't matter, as long as they make their point and draw attention. Where's the apologies to people like me who they offended or continue to offend at the games? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black mentality. Oh, don't use that phrase as a racial slur either.

My point is, it's a double standard, and our players and all the other NFL players just proved why I won't root them on this year. I can't imagine standing there singing the anthem in front of a bunch of protesters. You couldn't pay me to sing at an NFL game, or bear colors during the anthem at an NFL game, just to see guys blatantly protest in my face. They might say they are patriotic, or that they aren't trying to offend Vets or others, but their actions speak louder than words. I can't imagine how those poor Vietnam Vets felt coming back to be spit on by flag burning hippies. To me, this is the same type of mentality. God Bless America and the U.S.A. Boycott Veterans Day Weekend in the NFL!

 

McNair's second statement was utter bullsh!t and it revealed the extent of the panic that was spreading through the building.

 

I'm sorry, but no matter where you stand on this issue, this **** is hilarious.

 

It's funny. It clearly was a shot, but it was a good shot!