The Vice President just doesn’t "leave" a sporting event before the 1st quarter. United States Vice President Mike Pence made a visit to Lucas Oil Stadium for what people dubbed “Peyton Manning Day” but would be out of the stadium before kickoff. Pence sent out a few tweets with pictures of him in Colts gear and promptly left after witnessing more kneel-downs from the San Francisco 49ers, the team that started all of this in the first place and still doing it five games into the 2017 season.
There’s a story on the walkout you can read here, but here’s the tweet that’s important:
I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.