Sports leagues all over the place have been put in the position in which they are taking a long, hard look at some of their practices in certain areas of governing their players and where their priorities lie. The NFL, spurred on by a star-studded player video calling upon the league to give voice to change, appears to be on the path toward doing this within their own sphere, led by Roger Goodell’s video response.
The central public issue has become the league’s previous response to players choosing to kneel for the national anthem. In 2018, they attempted to introduce a policy that would result in players being fined and teams being disciplined if their players did so, but it was ultimately scrapped after a back-and-forth with the NFLPA.