You don't get to define the terms.
The players did not take a knee *during* the anthem. They did it before. As long as they stood with respect to the flag during the 90 seconds or so they played the song, then they've done what's required of them. For the other three hours, they can act like jerks and thugs and it only reflects on their team, not on the flag.
Go back to Kaepernick himself that started this whole thing. He never said that he meant to disrespect the flag or our troops. He even topped it off by saying he thought Hillary Clinton should be in jail but, of course, the media didn't mention that part.
He wanted to draw attention to police violence. OK, so noted. He's pretty much thrown away his career for being an idiot. Why certain players want to continue this little tantrum, I don't know but the Cowboys handled it pretty well.
Kneel - ok we got your point. Stand - ok, now get ours. Then, let's kick off and get the game going. Nobody pays $100 a seat to watch how they handle the anthem. It's ridiculous.
They were kneeling to the Marxist-Leninist god, political violence.
There was NO good in it. Zero.
Oh. So to figuratively spit on America seconds before the anthem is fine. Just not during.
OK, got it. Thanks.
Youse not too bright are youse? Trump set out a cactus and the entire NFL used it as a butt plug. Even his supposed friends squatted and took it in. I guess they did not think about the thorns on the way in. Removal is not going to be painless. My prediction: 35% of NFL net worth just went poof. No more anti trust status. No more tax payer stadiums.
They took a knee against whites and America. What they did was racist.
You know what, yes I do.