There are a lot of countries on this planet where the things that we witnessed on Sunday would not have occurred. The dear leader would have spoken, the subversives would have fallen into line, and that would have been that. The founders of this nation were not perfect men with perfect ideas, but among the many things they got right was the one that paved the way for displays like the ones that transpired at Lincoln Financial Field and other football stadiums before this weekend’s games. Roughly 36 hours after the president of the United States encouraged private business owners to terminate the employment of any worker who chose to exercise his First Amendment rights in the form of an act of peaceful protest during the playing of the national anthem, a handful of Eagles did just that, raising their fists toward a cloudless September sky as their teammates and bosses locked arms in solidarity.
Eagles', NFL protests are the most American anthem of all | David Murphy
