The first NFL Sunday of 2020 arrived, and the games still went on.
The early games saw a variety of gestures — we won’t call them protests, not if the league has at long last given its approval — and some on social media cheered while others of course grumbled.
And the games went on.
Perhaps the most striking gesture came from Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich, who kneeled during the playing of the anthem at Jacksonville’s TIAA Bank Field, while to his left and right players locked arms.