Clark University Creates Football Team to Kneel in Solidarity…

In an announcement by the Clark University athletics program today, Trish Cronin revealed that both students and faculty voted in favor of the creation of a varsity football team, according to a recent survey.

Upon much shock and further investigation The Freudian Slip learned that the exact survey question asked:

“Would you like to see Clark University create a varsity football team so that they may kneel in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick during the National Anthem?”

With a 97% approval rate, Cronin announced, the football team would challenge convention by kneeling in solidarity of Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality.

This ambitious plan has not been without criticism. Many voices, from Clark and beyond, have argued that creating a football team for the sole purpose of protesting is insulting to the well established and respected athletics of the University. Critics have also expressed concern over the image that this plan would convey to outsiders who would see it as school-sanctioned anti-patriotism.

The criticism has been overshadowed by thousands of voices from Clark that are strongly in favor of the creation of the football team.

Cole Tapermatt, endearing Wright Hall bro, told The Freudian Slip, “Here at Clark we are always challenging convention and changing the world. By making a football team for the sole purpose of drawing attention to an issue we care about, we can show the world that our athletics programs and activism are to be taken seriously.”

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