When players started kneeling for the national anthem, the reaction broke down into three separate categories:
Category One
“Good for them, exercising their first amendment rights and using the only pulpit they have to protest injustice.”
Category Two
“How dare they not stand for the anthem! It’s disrespectful to the flag and troops! The troops!”
Category Three
“Who gives a shit?”
Well, people did give a shit. One specific group of people, a loud group currently led by the President of the United States and his incoherent, grammatically-challenged Twitter feed.