Some Australian sportsball players also knelt in solidarity with Communist organizations such as Black Lives MatterTM.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rugby-league/israel-folau-take-knee-st-helens-vs-catalans-dragons-a9650491.html
Personally, I always find it easier on my “anger button” if I just don’t start watching a game until after it starts. But being a Red Sox and Celtics fan, we are perceptually angry and the team, the players, and the ownership. I guess I could add the Patriots into that mix… but they’ve performed better over the past twenty years so they get a pass.