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Texas poll: Professional athletes should stand during the national anthem

Just stand during the national anthem, a majority of likely Texas voters say.

While most say NFL players have the right to protest by kneeling, 54 percent still wish they shouldn’t, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday morning.

“Texans are opposed to the practice of some National Football League players kneeling during the National Anthem before NFL games,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. “Although they don’t like it, Texas likely voters overwhelmingly say it is the players’ right to do so.”

But not everyone agrees.