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“We asked for no anthem, because we don’t feel it’s right to be played at this moment. They ignored our wishes. “ @ReggieCannon15
I think it was disgusting. I think it was absolutely disgusting. You got fans booing you for people taking a stand for what they believe in and millions of other people support this cause.
We discussed with every other team in the league what we were going to do and we got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that?
For a lack of a better word, it pissed me off. We discussed it prior with what we are doing, we discussed it with Nashville. Everyone from Nashville was on board, everyone across the league was on board on what we were going to do.
We asked for no anthem because we didn’t feel it was right for the anthem to be played at this moment. They ignored our wishes so we were gonna kneel regardless if the anthem was going to be played or not. @ReggieCannon15
Unfortunately, it was played during these times when we asked for the anthem not to be played. You can’t even have support from your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me. @ReggieCannon15
As a team, we try to give the best possible product on the field and these last six months have been absolutely hell for us. Absolute hell. @ReggieCannon15
We have to watch other people play soccer, and we’re just sitting home Unfortunately contracting Covid from the unfortunate situations that we were put in. @ReggieCannon15
Now an opportunity presented itself to play tonight, and unfortunately, we are mad and upset not to get the win, but I was pissed. Everyone around me was pissed, @rmhollingshead , the first thing he said to me after we got up from the knee was 'I’m sorry, I’m sorry for fans. '
We had some chanting 'USA' when they don’t understand what kneeling means. They don’t understand why we are kneeling. They can’t see the reason, they just think we’re the ignorant one. It’s incredibly frustrating. @ReggieCannon15
I’m sorry for having this tone but you have to call it for what it is. I even knew when we decided to kneel that it was going to happen. That should tell you guys something. I knew that we were going to have negative pushback from having a unified response over what’s going on.
It hurts me because I love our fans, I love this club. I want to see the support that the league has given us from our fans. I love the people that came out tonight but as soon as I heard that Boo I just had to play on and knew what to expect. @ReggieCannon15
We will take it one day at a time. Again, we are unified in this response and everyone stand together black white even orange. Everyone stand together . @ReggieCannon15
