With less than a week until the N.F.L. preseason begins, the league’s policy on what players must do during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner is in more flux than ever as players sounded off Friday against Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s demand that his players stand for the anthem.
Jones’s pronouncement this week followed the league’s announcement that it was putting on hold a revised policy. That plan would obligate players on the field to stand at attention but provide the option of remaining in the locker room. The league is trying to negotiate another revision to the policy with the N.