ANY PRO GUN NFL TEAMS?

[ProguninTN]

NFL Teams

I don't care what the NFL teams say. They SHOULD shut up and just play football, and not be ego freaks. (Terrell Owens that means you!!!) Perhaps the NFL says players shouldn't mess with guns because so many of its "employees" have been in trouble with law ?

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Besides the ones listed above, you could add Steve Foley, Adam "Pacman" Jones, and Leonard Little.

I know these aren't the only ones who have been naughty, and by contrast, there are some well-behaved players. Nonetheless, the NFL can put a sock in it when it comes to politics.

ProguninTN

 

[El Tejon]

I used to work at a Galyan's Sporting Goods store near the Indianapolis Colts training facility near Eagle Creek.

If what I saw 1989 to 1992 was any indication, then I would say the Indianapolis Colts are the most pro-gun NFL team. Sold bunches and bunches of guns (shotguns and pistols, few rifles). Ron Soult (offensive line) once had me bring him every single shotgun out of our armory so he could pick the gun with the best wood. I eagerly nodded, not that I was going to argue with someone whose forearms were like my legs.

The Pacers would be the most pro-gun NBA team. I sold guns to almost the entire team, including Rik Smits (who would carry cases and cases of clays out to his truck), Chuck Pearson (a Remington 552--I sold a rifle to The Rifleman), and Reggie Miller came in with a friend (did not recognize him at first). Reggie looke around and asked questions (wanted to hold the big Redhawk) but did not buy anything.

It always struck me funny that I rarely had contact with African-Americans while at the store but many of the athletes were from the South and raised around guns and certainly displayed an above average understanding of guns.

 

[aerod1]

Yep, Bo Jackson is one of us. So is Larry Czonka former Miama Dolphin) and Jay Novacek (former Dallas Cowboy).

 

[JTMcC]

Knotthead:
It's not a matter of athletes being "important" figures in the lives of the citizenry, it's about not spending your hard earner dollars on entertainment/entertainers or athletes/athletic teams that don't support (or actually oppose) those issues we find important. And hopefully letting them know the reasons that we chose to not spend our descretionary income in "their house".
We (me and my family) have extended the same criteria to every type of purchase for many years, I may like the music of a particular group, but based on their anti 2nd Amendment stance I'll forego spending my money on their product. Same with Coke or Pepsi. Or any product you can name, I don't support my enemies with my dollars if I can help it and most times I can. I let them know why as well.
This doesn't mean that a soft drink company is "important" in my life, quite the contrary it means that I can class that same company as not worthy of my hard earned gold.

JTMcC.

 

[Knotthead]

JTMcC:

I've similarly done the same thing. If an entertainer comes out for gun control or any other social or political position, or just generally annoys me, I have no problem boycotting their material. As far as athletes go, over the last decade or so I have drifted away from any interest in following any team or sport. I just don't have any desire to contribute to feeding the egos or the pocket books of the Terrell Owens's of the world. The NFL was the first to go. I haven't watched a Superbowl in well over a decade. Haven't felt like I missed anything. Much more satisfying to live my life than to watch others live theirs.

 

[ccw9mm]

ANY PRO GUN NFL TEAMS?