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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PackerfaninCarolina" data-source="post: 731365" data-attributes="member: 9364">Well, NFL teams' athletes are being paid to go out and focus on football during practice in the week, and leave it all out on the line during Sunday games.  They are not getting paid to express viewpoints, though whether they do ... well I guess that's their choice.  You could say maybe Charles Woodson did in a sense when he talked about going to see President Obama in the 2010 NFC Championship postgame speech after beating the bears and then later explained more about his political stance in another interview.  But his business was football and I'm most certain he made his ideology a secondary issue and laid it all on the line at the Don Hutson Center during the week, and then brought it all to Lambeau Field on Sunday.  That's the way it should be.If I'm coming to Lambeau on Sunday, the last thing on my mind is what the guy sitting next to me believes and I'm probably not interested in what his political ideology is.  I'm just hoping he's as passionate about the Packers as I am and ready to scream and cheer as loud for the team as his lungs permit.I consider this forum an extension of Lambeau Field.  Here to support 1 thing and 1 alone ... The Green Bay Packers.</blockquote>

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