To the kneeling haters...thought about this?

[ProfessorGAC]

30. With You On Nearly Every Point 100%

Except for the "if i'm there" thing. Perhaps it's a brainlock from the 70's when students didn't stand for the anthem before football or basketball games to show they were against Nixon and the war. Perhaps i've never gotten past that.

Taking it to an extreme, when they played it before a basketball game when i was in high school, i once or twice went to the corner beyond the bench and practiced dribbling. During the song. I got asked not to do it again, but didn't really get in trouble. The rest of those seasons, i just left the floor and went to the bathroom before the game started.

I'd probably still do that.

On your first point, i do agree that there is no legal issue but there is a potential players' union conflict. This is particularly true in professional sports where the player is not just the employee, but also the product.

One can run a business and not care about alienating employees, (not wise but doable), but nobody can alienate their own product. Nobody who makes convenience foods runs commercials to tell people how much better the food is if you cook it yourself. Nobody would run a car company, and then run ads to tell people the other manufacturers make better cars.

The NFL is alienating the players here, and that's a lot different than telling a normal employee "you don't like it? The door is there." They take the door, there is no business.