They were told not to. They did it anyway. I guess you reap what you sow.
Then it was an act of civil disobedience.
"Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
“They were told not to. They did it anyway. I guess you reap what you sow.”
If I was one of those players I would wave those flags again as soon as my suspension ended.