Is there a personal-foul penalty for piling on the NFL?
If I’m Ed Hochuli, I’m throwing the flag.
The NFL deserves much criticism for how it has handled the national anthem issue. Even commissioner Roger Goodell concedes that. Many owners blame San Francisco’s Jed York for not ordering Colin Kaepernick to stand last season when he knelt as a protest of police brutality and racial inequality, not as a protest of the flag or the military. All the owners are furious with Houston’s Bob McNair for his flippant remark recently at a league meeting: “We can’t have the inmates running the prison.