Understand the real issue that is. The real issue is that we fans don't like players dissing the US flag and/or the American national anthem. It irritates us down deep. I will avoid the more descriptive words for our feelings because they are a little too vulgar for my blog. And when we fans get irritated, we stop buying game tickets and we stop watching games on TV. Which is bad for business. Any fool ought to understand this by now.
Apparently there are a bunch of fools out there. I have heard one bunch claim that President Trump's disapproval was divisive with the owners. Nonsense, the president is just one guy. It's the masses of football fans who have been turned off to the game that matter.
Another bunch of fools say dissing the flag and the anthem is free speech. Maybe it is, but just because speech is free doesn't mean we fans have to like it. We don't. That sort of free speech has taken a solid hit on TV viewership. A little more such free speech and NFL football will be down there with European soccer matches. And only available on U-Tube.
Good luck NFL. Maybe common sense will penetrate before it's too late.
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