MINNEAPOLIS — They are football players. They are teammates. They are Tampa Bay Bucs.
But before that, they are something else.
They are Americans. And they are human beings.
And that gives Mike Evans and DeSean Jackson the right to do what they did Sunday.
As the national anthem played before their game against the Vikings, they knelt and placed their hands over their hearts.
Peacefully, they protested the divisive words of the president. Without violence, they protested the leader of this country calling them "sons of b------.'' Causing harm to no one, they let it be known that President Trump does not represent them.