RadioOnFire.com - Only two days after Houston Texans owner Bob McNair's compared players to prison inmates, Week 8's edition of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown zeroed in on the topic by turning to co-hosts Charles Woodson and Randy Moss for their take, as former stars in the league.
Woodson said he'd refrain from speaking on whether he imagines he'd be one to protest, out of respect for those who are coming up in a different time and actually dealing with the issue in the locker room each week, but he did assert that all McNair's comments serve to do is validate the reason why Colin Kaepernick sparked the protests in the first place. Moss questioned why it is that the football nation is still "talking about racism and protesting" eight weeks into the season, and placed the onus to "nip it in the bud" on team owners, but not before calling out for the mentality that some of them exhibit towards players.
"What's crazy is that these owners in professional sports think they own us as the players. They really are team owners, they own the team, they don't own the players," said Moss.
Moss' criticism against the ownership mentality may veer from his regular outlook on the protest movement, but his yearning for the NFL to get past the social discourse and get back to the game isn't new. Earlier in the season, the Hall of Fame wideout hoisted J.J. Watt's efforts to raise funds for the Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts as an ideal form of activism, while chastising National Anthem protesters.
“Over the last month, we’ve had a lot of losers out here in our country protesting racism and doing a lot of negative stuff that puts a lot of bad shame on our country,” Moss can be recalled saying at the time.
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