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That's what made Marzka's blow-up over the same demonstration a year later a surprise to Durante. In the first couple of games this fall, now as the top backup to the starting quarterback, Durante had raised a fist with a few other teammates during the anthem.
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But he decided a more drastic response was in order after Trump's speech to an Alabama crowd in September, when the president attacked protesting NFL players. He asked [url=http://www.officialnewyorkrangers.com/Adidas-Jesper-Fast-Jersey]Jesper Fast Womens Jersey[/url] members of the crowd if they'd "love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired'?"
"It definitely struck a nerve in me," Durante said.
Durante was the only member of the team to kneel that week, a game at King's College in Wilkes-Barre on Sept. 30. Marzka, he said, erupted in anger at his protest.
"He started off calm," Durante said. "And I said, 'Sorry, Coach, I hear what you're saying but I've got to do this.' That's when Coach started yelling at me."
The rest of the game largely passed without incident: Durante, who usually got in for a few plays per game this season, never left the sideline.
The next morning at Albright, Marzka beckoned Durante to his office. The meeting, according to Durante, started with Marzka going over the history of the anthem and closed with the coach telling Durante he thought the protest was disrespectful to the military, including his own family members who served.
"I told him I was doing it to protest systemic racism, discrimination, social injustice and I told him about what Trump said," Durante said. "That's something I just can't stand for."
Marzka, he said, was unmoved. "He told me, 'You're not going to take a knee again. And if you take a knee, you're off the team.' I told him that was just a risk I was willing to take." Later that day, Marzka convened a meeting of the team's leadership council, which came up with what it considered a compromise.
The council's plan included a statement that was read before the game, including the lines: "We storm this field behind the American Flag as a symbol of our commitment, our unity and the value we place on our freedoms. We both kneel and stand tall [url=http://www.officialraptorstore.com/Jonas_Valanciunas_Jersey]http://www.officialraptorstore.com/Jonas_Valanciunas_Jersey[/url] out of the mutual respect we have for each other and the value we place on our differences."
Durante didn't find it sufficient and took a knee anyway, much to the chagrin of the coach and his teammates. "I felt kinda like, 'Dang, I thought a lot of people would have my back.' I think a lot of the players that voted for the compromise were kinda intimidated [url=http://www.officialnewyorkrangers.com/Adidas-Jesper-Fast-Jersey]Jesper Fast Womens Jersey[/url] by the coach."
Kaska dismissed Durante two days later, just minutes before a team meeting and practice.
Josh Powell, a [url=http://www.officialnewyorkrangers.com/Adidas-Jesper-Fast-Jersey]Jesper Fast Jersey[/url] freshman defensive end from Tampa, Florida, told NBC 10 that Durante broke his teammates' trust by kneeling. "We trusted him throughout the week, after time and time again he told us he would stand," Powell said, according to NBC 10. "When you can't have a player on a team that you can trust, he's got to go."
Fentrow's subsequent statement offering reinstatement did little to clear up the reasoning behind his dismissal, and to many others, exposed issues that have long festered on the campus.
"We have a racial problem more serious than it appeared at first," de Syon said, responding to the president's [url=http://www.officialedmontonoilers.com/Adidas-Andrej-Sekera-Jersey]http://www.officialedmontonoilers.com/Adidas-Andrej-Sekera-Jersey[/url] statement. "If we are serious as a liberal arts institution about respecting freedom of opinion and encouraging student exploration (i.e. applying the first amendment within the context of teaching), then we have serious work to do outside the classroom."
Now that Durante has declined the offer to return to the team, he has found there's much [url=http://www.authenticrocketstore.com/Charles_Barkley_Jersey]http://www.authenticrocketstore.com/Charles_Barkley_Jersey[/url] stronger support for his fledgling activism outside of the locker room.
Today he has become more popular than he ever was as a football player. "It's surprising," he said. "It's been pretty much all positive." In the school's cozy campus center, a black-and-white picture of him kneeling is prominently placed on one of the corkboards leading into the dining hall.
"I respect Gyree with everything in my being," said Isaiah Knox, an 18-year-old freshman. "A lot of people I know think standing up for yourself is a great thing. It's just a shame that he lost his football career because of it

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