“Keep politics out of sports!”
“I’m not watching the NFL anymore because of your social stance!”
“Don’t bring your politics/social opinions onto the field of play!”
We live in divisive times. There is no doubting that. From our tweet-happy President to Colin Kaepernick and his movement to use the ‘kneel’ to bring light to police brutality against minorities, you can’t turn on a sporting event or walk through a turnstile into a game without confronting some athlete trying to bring light to a political or social subject.
And for some reason, we as a nation are reacting as if this is some sort of new phenomenon that’s making the rounds across America for the first time.