[Alberta's Child]

You can take most of what is generally understood in labor law and throw it out the window in this case, because a collective bargaining agreement trumps labor law in almost every circumstance.

In this case, the "employer" is the San Francisco 49ers football team. They can do whatever they want with him. What do you expect them to do -- bench him? They've already done that. He's a fifth-rate quarterback who lost his starting job and never should have been signed to his stupid contract in the first place.

What else can they do -- cut him? They're likely to do that anyway, but they have to pay him for this season regardless of what they do.

Ignoring him is the best course of action, because anything else they do would make a martyr out of him. He probably has an IQ of about 85, and it really shows. Anyone who shows up for an interview in a Fidel Castro T-shirt and denounces "oppression" in the United States is dumber than a sack of hammers.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I wasn't suggesting the NFL or the team take any specific course of action. I was only posting to show your comment that the team had no legal recourse was false, unless you know specifically that the NFLPA collective bargaining agreement somehow addresses the right to protest during the playing of the Anthem. The NFL already barred the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a symbol of support for police on their uniforms