Hello, NFL fans. On Wednesday the league announced that players can feel free to protest during the national anthem. Good for the league! But here’s the rub: The NFL said the players that do protest have to do so in the locker room. Teams will now be fined if their players protest during the national anthem.
There is no sense bringing any kind of discord out into public view, is there? Money is to be made and we need to keep the riff raff to the back of the bus! And maybe this isn’t what the NFL is thinking, but the announcement of them keeping protesting players literally out of view of pregame crowds can certainly be read that way.