No they wouldn’t. Just look at your own reaction. The players would still be doing it, and folks would be hammering the owners for allowing themselves to be powerless. From a business perspective taking a side, especially when you can’t ACT, is generally a huge mistake. Just look at Papa John, he took a side, then didn’t like who was agreeing with him, took another side, tanked sales, and got fired. When in doubt the best business move is shut up and let the news cycle do it work and move on to another subject. Really their plan was working great until Trump re-roused the rabble. Less than a dozen players took a knee in week one and nobody paid any attention to them, it was a dead topic until it wasn’t.
“No they wouldn’t. Just look at your own reaction.”
I was willing to cut teams slack if they had no kneelers.
Then the Cowboys came out and knelt as a team.
“folks would be hammering the owners for allowing themselves to be powerless.”
I think you underestimate people’s intelligence. People understand about contractual obligations.
“Just look at Papa John, he took a side, then didn’t like who was agreeing with him, took another side, tanked sales, and got fired.”
Looks to me like his problem was more changing his position than taking a stand. “Sir, negative, sir. Sir, the private believes that any answer he gives will be wrong, and the Senior Drill Instructor will beat him harder if he reverses himself, sir.”