[ctdonath2]

As citizens, they have the right to free speech.
As employees, their contract stipulates standing as part of their performance, up to & including termination if they don’t.

[atc23]

The right to free speech is greatly enhanced provided the individual has something interesting or enlightening to say - I can't remember any professional who plays with his balls ever being given such a distinction.

Let's face it, the NFL is in a death rattle and once people are gone, they're not coming back.

We must be a white supremacist culture to give big fat blacks such a prominent role in our Sunday rituals - :-(