{"id":82093,"date":"2018-09-30T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82093"},"modified":"2018-09-30T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:26:07","slug":"not-sure-what-the-packers-were-thinking-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82093","title":{"rendered":"Not sure what the Packers were thinking here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/packers-flag-e1538343362742.jpg\" alt=\"flag?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During Sunday&#8217;s pregame festivities, the Green Bay Packers trotted out this, ah, banner, of some sort, consisting of three stripes and by my count 26 stars in a blue field. With this crowd I doubt I need to go into what the American flag symbolizes, and this isn&#8217;t it. The only flag I can find that&#8217;s close, sans stars, is the flag of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/383px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg_.png\" alt=\"netherlands\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I for one haven&#8217;t been following the NFL of late, and for all I know the Netherlands may very well have an NFL team, although why they would want one is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of fans were confused, too, by their tweets: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who comes up with ideas like this?  Number of stars (States in Union) and number of stripes (colonies that won our independence) defines us.  That thing on the field is not our nation&#8217;s banner.<br \/>\n1:41 PM &#8211; Sep 30, 2018 &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;in honor of the Euros winning the Ryder Cup?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very unamerican flag at packers game no real surprise&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To mention a few.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder if Kaepernick would take a knee for this?<br \/>\n\/sarc<\/p>\n<p>The entire article may be viewed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2018\/09\/30\/packers-unveil-strange-american-flag-like-banner-before-sundays-game\/\">Breitbart News Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Sunday&#8217;s pregame festivities, the Green Bay Packers trotted out this, ah, banner, of some sort, &hellip; <a title=\"Not sure what the Packers were thinking here.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82093\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not sure what the Packers were thinking here.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}