After a rally speech in Alabama on Saturday in which President Donald Trump suggested that NFL owners fire those “sons of b*tches” kneeling during the national anthem, the public awoke Sunday morning anxious to see how the league would respond to such a divisive demand. In a professional sports league where the ownership demographic drastically…
In the past week, conflicts arose between President Trump and the NFL players from several different football who teams knelt during the national anthem. During this third week of protests, players from teams such as the Baltimore Ravens, the Pittsburgh Steelers and even the Detroit Lions linked arms and knelt for the national anthem. These…
Colin Kaepernick first reached national eyes as a quarterback for the University of Nevada. He entered the 2011 National Football League draft and was picked in the second round by the San Francisco 49ers. Kaepernick came off the bench in place of injured starter Alex Smith in a strange game that ended in a tie,…