{"id":791,"date":"2023-02-18T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=791"},"modified":"2024-07-29T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T20:23:04","slug":"a-high-school-football-team-decided-to-take-a-knee-for-the-anthem-so-the-refs-taught-them-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/a-high-school-football-team-decided-to-take-a-knee-for-the-anthem-so-the-refs-taught-them-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"A High School Football Team Decided To Take A Knee For The Anthem, So The Refs Taught Them A Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a moment before a high school football game, while listening to the national anthem, four players on one team decided to take a knee in protest, and this wasn\u2019t the first time. Prior to the game, one of the referees for the game decided that if the players were going to protest, he was going to protest their protest by walking away from the game, and that\u2019s just what he did.<\/p>\n<p>Ernie Lunardelli walked off the football field at Monroe High School in New Jersey. Reportedly, before the game, he told the officials assigner for the Greater Middlesex Conference that he was planning to walk away from the game if the players took a knee in protest during the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Lunardelli explained, \u201cI\u2019m not in favor of anyone disrespecting our country, our flag, the armed forces.\u201d He added, \u201cWhat they\u2019re protesting has nothing to do with the national anthem and I\u2019m against it, so I decided to protest them kneeling and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Colts Neck Coach Darian Barnes, Lunardelli didn\u2019t leave the field peacefully. Instead, he claims Lunardelli had to be pulled off the field. Lunardelli denies this claim explaining, \u201cOne of the coaches said something and it kind of irked me, and I just turned around and I was looking to see who it was.\u201d He added, \u201cNobody pulled me; I walked off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other referee at the game was Lunardelli\u2019s son, Anthony Lunardelli, who graduated from Monroe High School in 2008 and used to play football at Monroe prior to graduation. He joined his dad, walking off the field and leaving the game in protest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monroe High School football players kneel during National Anthem\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1w9vZKqHdsU?feature=oembed\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the refs left the field, racist comments on social media supposedly made by Lunardelli came to light. The comments supposedly written by Lunardelli say that Barak and Michelle Obama should go \u201cback to the zoo.\u201d According to Lunardelli, he \u201cwas hacked\u201d and did not make the comments. He added, \u201cI\u2019m standing by what I did and it has nothing to do with race or anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lunardelli and his son both ended up resigning as refs.<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe Lunardelli that he \u201cwas hacked\u201d? Do you think it was out of line for him to protest the football players who decided to take a knee during the national anthem by refusing to ref the game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a moment before a high school football game, while listening to the national anthem, four players on one team decided to take a knee in protest, and this wasn\u2019t the first time. 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