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On 2 October 2017, the satire web site Freedum Junkshun published an item claiming that the New Orleans Saints were stranded on a runway after an entire flight crew took a knee and refused to transport the group of thugs: Although it's true that New Orleans Saints players kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality on more than one occasion during the early weeks of the 2017 National Football League season — including at a London game, before which the Saints kneeled and locked arms with members of the opposing team, the Miami Dolphins, on 1 October — the story about the Saints' flight crew taking a knee in protest is pure fiction. (At the same time this fake news article was circulating, a similar false story spread involving television chef Gordon Ramsay and the aforementioned Miami Dolphins.) Albeit popular on social media, news of the purported incident was not reported by any credible sources. In addition, the footer on all of Freedum Junkshun's pages includes a prominent about section identifying the web site's content as works of pure satirical fiction and suggesting it exists to mock the very folks likely sharing its content:
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