As anyone who watched any TV at all on Sunday should know, the National Anthem protest debate has broken its tether and is loose among the NFL at large. Players took a knee or gave the raised fit salute in Seattle; Glendale, AZ; and in Kansas City. And we’ll surely see more tonight when the Rams visit Santa Clara to take on the 49ers.
The founder of the movement, Colin Kaepernick, has said that he will once again sit out the Anthem — and this of course had rankled some folks.
All of this fuss over an old English drinking song with lyrics by an 19th Century slaveholder who was being held on a British warship when he wrote them.