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NFL owners’ national anthem policy won’t put issue to bed

I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying the new pastime that is taking the sports world by storm: Watching NFL owners trying to cover their collective keister.

They were at it again Tuesday morning, 32 billionaires slowly coming to grips with the realization they are losing the complete leverage over people and events that they have enjoyed since exiting the womb. In this case, they passed a national anthem policy that allows individual teams to make their own rules, as long as they don’t force players to be on the field during the Star Spangled Banner.