and the NFL wonders why ratings are down.....total clown show with these guys who want attention. Go live somewhere else if you can't respect the flag. I don't pay money for football games to watch your **** or care what you want to protest.
Ah yes mandatory patriotism. Exactly what the flag represents, right? Let me ask you an honest question, suppose this was 1960, when segregation was still legal and interracial marriages could be outlawed and a black person felt that the flag didn't represent freedom to them. Would it be OK to kneel then? Or is it that they should stand to show appreciation to the flag for being given any rights at all?
I wasn't alive in 1960 but I'm alive in 2016 where I KNOW hundreds of our comrades in arms DIED due to neglect by the VA, a US Government agency. Shouldn't we kneel for them given your rational? This includes black vets, white vets, women vets, asian vets if color, gender, and ethnicity matters the most to you.