Athletes all across the country over the past two weeks have made it clear that by no means will they any longer feel the obligation to ‘stick to sports’—that every athlete in this country is as much a citizen as anybody else and is free to use their rights to expression to speak on issues and to attempt to enact change.
Through the Players Coalition, well over 1000 current and former players between the NFL, the MLB, and the NBA, as well as hundreds of front office executives, attached their names to a letter to Congress calling on them to pass a bill set before them that targets the concept of qualified immunity.