The Seattle Times · May 25, 2018
Really dumb: If NFL’s national anthem protests needed a solution, this is a bad one
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll talks with wide receiver Doug Baldwin after organized team activities at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center on Thursday. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times)A prediction: There will be more sideline protests in the opening week of the NFL season than it would have been if the league had merely continued its cooperation with an alliance of influential players.
Congratulations to the NFL, which has managed to please almost nobody, rile up almost everyone, ensure that a fading controversy has re-erupted, and virtually guarantee that the debate over national-anthem protests will take on a new, longer-lasting and evermore divisive life.
