It is crazy for these way, way overpaid athletes to gripe about this country. They are not heroes, they are men playing a game, entertainers who can be replaced, irrelevant to the welfare of this country.
And many of them are thugs, into drugs, beating up women, and now dissing this country. My family has switched to watching college football. No more NFL.
The collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the players limits the owners in terms of how they can punish the players over this nonsense, but there is nothing that prevents a team from benching a protesting player and then cutting him at the end of the season. We have now had two seasons end since this "protest" first started, so any player who is still "protesting" is clearly doing this with the approval of his management.