NFL bans kneeling during the national anthem

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In college football, players usually take the field after the anthem.  Why not do the same in the NFL and avoid the whole issue?

They used to:

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People who think this is terrible, think about it from the NFL perspective. This issue was very divisive for them, and their ratings were going down because of this, and one of their jobs is to try to stop things what hurts their ratings.

Indeed.  This is America 101 people.

The "*insert worker* needs to put aside *insert freedom * so *insert company* can get their * insert capitalism*." trend continues!

Football players need to put aside their right to peacefully protest so the NFL can get their sweet sweet ratings and department of defense $$$$.

A company has the freedom to make rules on what you can and cant do doing work hours.

Not when you have a union that has to sign off on policy changes under their collective bargaining agreement. Sounds like the NFLPA is going to sue on this.

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Yeah, the NFLPA is going to sue:

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When the sporting field is turned into a political football, everyone loses.

The owners of the NFL teams want the kneeling to stop because they will suffer financially.

Apparently the first player to kneel cannot get back into a contract, so the punishment for kneeling is already in full effect.

I see it as a workplace arrangement.

They are, after all, professional sports people.

He can’t get a contract because he went 1-13 in his last year. It’s not all cuz of the protests, it’s cuz he just flat out sцcks

He's not good but he's definitely better than some of the other backup QB's in the league. He'd be in the league now if he never kneeled. RGIII got signed by the Ravens and he was out of the league in 2017 and is worse than Kaep IMO.

RG3 can atleast win you a few games. Plus he’s just Flacco’s back up. Also yeah if he wasn’t so polarizing maybe he’d still be in the league, no team wants a player taking up valuable space that your own fans would despise. but the stats speak for them self. Any college QB is better than Kraperdick.

Kaepernick definitely lost his touch post-2013 (though defenses adjusted to similar mobile QBs - not something exclusive to him) but that’s still an insane statement. He’d be at minimum a serviceable backup.

This is from just 3 days ago:

Report: Colin Kaepernick Collusion Case Revealed Teams Viewed Him as Starting QB

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Vox: The NFL’s “take a knee” ban is flatly illegal

Article is from Benjamin Sachs, the Kestnbaum professor of labor and industry at Harvard Law School.