Saying that business comes second, the owner of an Oaklahoma bar says he will not show sports in which athletes kneel during the national anthem.
season, the owner of an Oklahoma bar says he will not show any sports in his establishment if athletes kneel during the national anthem.
The owner of the bar says that he finds kneeling disrespectful. The protest action was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterbackStarlight Club owner Ed Burton in Ardmore, a town of an estimated 24,700 people in southern Oaklahoma, admits it could be a damaging business decision, but said patrons wanting to watch the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS or NASCAR will have to frequent another bar.
"I've done this so our customers would know what to expect from us. I feel like it's a very important issue in my opinion," Burton told local news source News9"That's disrespectful to our country and to all the men and women that have fought for and died for this country, to give those people the right to protest in whatever way that they want to," he added.
As college football is gearing up to return, the owner said that if his local University of Oklahoma football team takes a knee before games, he won't show their games either. On what sports his bar will still be showing, Burton said golf, rodeos, hunting, fishing, and"anything where they don't protest by taking a knee and disrespecting the national anthem."
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