(06-14-2020, 11:19 AM)savagenate Wrote: The protesting players constantly say their protests have nothing to do with the anthem or the flag. My question to them then is, why there? They have multiple avenues to use their inflated status and voices to impact and attempt to bring about change.
They may have other avenues but seems like doing it there is the biggest platform possible. I don't know where else they can get a message out that would reach those who don't already agree with them.
Interestingly enough, before 2009 players would stay in their locker rooms while the National Anthem would play. NFL could have avoided all of this if they didn't trot the players out. https://www.axios.com/the-history-of-sin...8e712.html
I mean, it's not like the NFL couldn't say they didn't know that something like this could happen. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was suspended by the Denver Nuggets back in 1996 for sitting during the anthem. http://www.thepostgame.com/mahmoud-abdul...ick-anthem