Last Sunday morning, when I read the news that the Pittsburgh Steelers players would stay in the locker room/tunnel during the playing of the national anthem moments before their Week-3 matchup against the Bears, I figured it would get kind of ugly as far as the fans were concerned.
But it wasn't until I began scrolling through social media while watching Pittsburgh's rather dreadful performance in a 23-17 overtime loss at Soldier Field that I realized just how ugly it would get.
Here we are, days after the Steelers’ decision to avoid taking the field for the anthem--a move that came one day after President Donald Trump stood before an auditorium of his supporters and screamed that any NFL player who knelt for the national anthem out of protest should be fired and, oh yeah, was an s.