Members of Nebraska's football team kneeled during the anthem over the weekend and received racial threats as a result.
In a meeting prior to the game, Michael Rose-Ivey shared with the team why he planned to kneel during anthem. https://t.co/4szIy5BY8w pic.twitter.com/KZixBzPLD6
— Brian Christopherson (@HuskerExtraBC) September 25, 2016
Speaking to the media Monday, senior linebacker Michael Rose-Ivey described the backlash he and his teammates received as a result of kneeling. He knew he would get attention for what he did, but, as he said, "what we didn’t expect, was the enormous amount of hateful, racially motivated comments we received from friends, peers, fans, members of the media and others about the message of protests.