Not a football fan, don’t even watch TV (for probably 10 years now).
But, why is this an issue? He has an employer, and he has a “supervisor”, and he has “work time” and “non-work time”. Said Anthem standown occurs on “work time”, where he should be obligated to do whatever the team and league want. If he did a “stand-down” when he was supposed to be running footballs down the field, he’d be out on the street in 5 minutes flat.
The fact that Goodell is tacitly encouraging this, while at the same time prohibiting the Cowboys from honoring fallen cops on their uniforms, really frosts me.