The SEC schools and most other college teams do not take the field or stand for the anthem. How is this different from the NFL not standing for the anthem? The consensus here is that NFL players staying in the locker room is not acceptable either.
“NFL players staying in the locker room is not acceptable...”....
The NFL’s pitiful way of trying to appease both the players and the fans. I was done with the NFL and their low level IQ players a long time ago, and still vowing to never return..
“The SEC schools and most other college teams do not take the field or stand for the anthem. How is this different from the NFL not standing for the anthem?”
They never took knees - in other words, they were never in our faces, telling us cops are murders...HUGE DIFFERENCE.
They got lucky, because, yes, they too probably would have taken knees and killed off their fan base too.
“The SEC schools and most other college teams do not take the field or stand for the anthem. How is this different from the NFL not standing for the anthem?”
Don’t forget the colleges accept government money for tuition which allow them to raise the price of tuition, They also accept government money to produce global warming studies that help push for more government control. To me, colleges are worse than the NFL.
To me what happened with the NFL was they chose to promote patriotism in a big way at their games. It was all about the Flag, the military recognition- they made such a big show of it. That is what sets them apart from college and other teams. Many thought it was real, come to find out nearly all of that hoopla was paid for by the government as part of military recruiting. About the same time that was sinking in, the players began to protest the Flag, National Anthem. We all got to see how the players and the NFL itself actually felt about this country and how little they actually respected the military and Flag.
The contrast was truly bad optics. Switching from all the patriotic hoopla to players kneeling during the anthem was a sharp contrast to fans. Staying in the locker room or being on the field, that was their choice and without the focus on players openly protesting during the anthem fans didn’t really care if players were on or off field before that happened. They chose to allow players to protest on field, during the National Anthem. Now I doubt many care whether they are in or out of the locker room or even whether they stand tall or kneel in protest. Those that truly care are already done with the NFL.