(OPINION) FW – Forget sports analysis, one NBC reporter is now analyzing athletes’ beliefs. Late last week, during the team’s season opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod stood alone as the only athlete who didn’t take a knee during the performance of the national anthem.
The Giants player later explained to the San Francisco Chronicle he didn’t feel it was appropriate for him to do so. Because of his Christian faith, he said, “I can’t kneel before anything besides God.” “I meant no ill will by it,” he added of his decision.
“I don’t think I’m better than anybody. I’m just a Christian. I believe I can’t kneel before anything but God, Jesus Christ. I chose not to kneel. I feel if I did kneel, I’d be a hypocrite. I don’t want to be a hypocrite.”
Coonrod also expressed concerns about some of the tenets of the official Black Lives Matter organization, which is politically tied to Marxism and dedicated to “disrupt[ing] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” Over the weekend, NBC Sports reporter Monte Poole penned an article about his dissatisfaction with Coonrod, whom he ultimately concluded must be a fake Christian. READ MORE
