When National Football League owners voted unanimously Wednesday to pass a compromise policy regarding national anthem protests, the league was very careful not to pass judgment on whether the protests themselves were good or bad, only that they are bad for business.
And that, friends, is really all you need to know. The NFL is guided by the morality of the marketplace. If its partners who sell beer and razor blades and pickup trucks are upset that their wares are being peddled in an environment that might turn off some of their customers, then something is going to change, even if only for cosmetic purposes.