[octex]

None of the Cowboys have knelt during the anthem this year or last year.

The stadium looks very full to me.

[sparklite2]

It looks full because the seat color is the same as the SF jerseys so it’s hard to tell at distance. Up close, I’d say the stands are fifty per cent full. As lousy as the 49ers are this year, a lot of that emptiness is unrelated to a boycott.

[the_daug]

The NFL was dead to me when they got political about who can own a team. but probably started when this happened.

NEW YORK — An embarrassed CBS fired a contrite Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder Saturday after the sports commentator said in a much-criticized television interview that blacks were "bred" to be better athletes than whites. Snyder, who outraged civil rights leaders with this and other remarks about blacks in sports, reiterated a "heart-felt apology" he made

For some reason I thought of the Black joke in Guess Who of three thing you can't give a black man.