On Nation's Biggest Stage, NFL Players Support Equality — And Protest a President
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Two days after President Donald Trump blindsided the NFL with a suggestion that players who participate in the pre-game anthem protests should be cut from their teams, the league fired back on Sunday with an unprecedented display of solidarity. In stadiums across the country (and the pond), hundreds of players took a knee or locked arms during the national anthem in a show of unity and defiance.
In acknowledgement of the gesture of civil disobedience adopted a year ago by then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, players throughout the day dropped to one knee as the anthem played. In some cases, they were joined by team owners and coaches.
The league-wide protest got an early start, as dozens of players on the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars took a knee at around 9:40 a.m. EDT, as the anthem played in London’s Wembley Stadium. The players who participated in the kneel-down rose for the subsequent playing of “God Save the Queen.”
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