You totally missed the point on that one. Donald Trump had just told his supporters in a rant players who kneels during the national anthem should be fired. Queen Elizabeth OTOH never did anything that caused the problems American racial minorities suffer today or criticized her constinuents for trying to bring such issues to the public spotlight. So the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens did not have any reasons to kneel during "God Save the Queen" after doing so during "Star Spangled Banner."
BTW at the time, the Jaguars had a shield decal on their jerseys specifically to show support for the Navy, which has a base in Jacksonville. It was a permanent fixture on those uniforms.
I didn't miss a thing.
I just don't hold any respect for a duplicitous act by a mediocre QB who has followers that are easily led by his agenda.
He, who will not be named, should have been fired. As should have every follower in uniform that took at knee. Then and during the next season, if this behavior continues.
America was founded by forefathers that left England due to their politics. Now American football players who are paid millions in America, and would never see that kind of money playing anywhere else, disrespect their home country while showing respect for a foreign nation that caused the founding of this one. After a bloody battle to insure our independence.
The laziest cheapest act follower football players can exercise is to take a knee during the anthem.
That doesn't accomplish a thing, not one thing, to alter the so called injustice they think they're kneeling to protest. With their millions? They could do a heck of a lot more than take a knee that, as one sports caster when it all began noticed, could just as easily be interpreted as kneeling in prayer during the anthem. But do they? If so it doesn't make the same news as their kneeling does.
Now networks start the games after the national anthem so that the disrespect isn't broadcast. But the damage is done.
Stand up! Or lose your contract for ethics violation. That's how American football should run their business.
Last year two Texas high school football players thought they'd emulate this nonsense right before the game and during the anthem.
Big mistake. The coach made them strip off their uniforms right there on the sidelines. No, they weren't naked by any stretch, and they were off the team!
Not the only time this was done.
Oh, if only the American football owners had that kind of guts, we'd see football players stand during the anthem, or stay in the locker room until it's over.
Put their money where their knees are! Otherwise, it's a weak gesture that does nothing but make them look like rich spoiled ungrateful anti-American radicals who would rather bow than actually spend money to make their communities better and safer. Not the gated rich communities where they live. But those places where they were raised, or that they hear about needing support.
Where are these players, every single one, on their knees during the anthem in that case?