NFL owners approve team-by-team national anthem policy, will allow players to remain in locker room

[Moostache]

20. This is all bullshit...the first time a player stays in the locker room, Joe reporter is all over it

And as soon as the questions ("why weren't you at the anthem today? don't you love America enough?&quot start flowing from the press, then the whole "issue" in the NFL's estimation is right back center stage...

This was never about protesters or the flag, it is, was and ever shall be about control. About telling those "uppity" players to get back in their box and shut up. About "not letting the inmates run the asylum" as one of those genius owners said last year.

This issue made lots of old white men with money feel that they could extract some kind of historical revenge on African-American athletes, a sort of reversal in the face of John Carlos and Tommie Smith from their youthful days of yore. This idea that fans were actually offended (really offended, not the Fox News 'I'm-so-offended-I-can't-think-straight' offended) was always smoke and mirrors and more right wing bullshit.

Fuck the NFL. That league is ripe for an extended fall and needs to go.