NFL Protest

[*PhilHos*]

At this point, I'm numb to caring one way or the other about people kneeling/protesting during the anthem. My personal thoughts are that they should NOT do it, but that they are free to do it. My main beef though is, what purpose is th ekneeling accomplishing? Is it to bring about awareness on a subject? Well, that's failed (not necessarily the fault of the kneeler). Is it to bring about change? Well, that too has failed. Personally, I don't see the point in kneeling other than to make a statement but even then, what good is that going to do when the argument, for better or worse, is about whether they should kneel and not about the reasons for their kneeling.

I don't think the NFL front offices should have said anything other than acknowledging that the players can or cannot kneel and they will or won't be punished. Since they've said the players can kneel and won't be punished by the front office, that's the extent the NFL should've commented. Don't go changing when the anthem is played or crap like that. That just goes against their comments about the players kneeling.