NFL owners announced a new Anthem policy on Wednesday, declaring it was unanimously passed. While technically all votes on the matter were in favor, at least one team chose to abstain. San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York said he chose to abstain from the vote, saying he did that in part because he wanted to hear more from players. The NFL has spoken to players over the past year, but none were present for the formulation of this policy over the past two days.
49ers owner Jed York said that he abstained from the NFL owners vote on the new anthem policy, in part, because he wanted to hear more from players.