I heard on the NFL Network that it was only in the last 10 years or so that the teams were actually out on the field for the Anthem. Prior to that they stayed in the locker rooms.
I’d recommend they return to the no anthem agenda——this from a long time NFL fan with a hot team I don’t want to abandon. They’re lots of us. I suspect the anthem was re-instituted sometime after 9/11.
The anthem, kneeling, etc. will create more disharmony in sports, which should be absent of politics.