re: Do people really care about athletes kneeling before the anthem?

I don't really care. It's their right to do such, but this thread is proof of why the players shouldn't do it anymore. Instead of actually discussing the issues they are "protesting", it immediately turns into an argument about disrespecting the flag/anthem/country. At some point you need to look at the way you are protesting and say this isn't getting the message across. But then again, most of the players just want their woke points.

We need a politics extinction event to sweep across athletics and purge our sacred institutions of the current cancer.

Exterminating it completely won't be sufficient, nor would removing evidence of the practice from history and art save future generations of it. Cheating is primal natural to a competitor. Only true pride can save a contender from the need to win at all costs, that level of self-awareness is simply not a common enough trait among us. It will simply return within a generation unless something was established to combat it.

We need at least one Mutual Exclusion Amendment to The Constitution. Sports, especially ones that are National Treasures like Football, must be protected from other really important but dangerous and corrosive agents : politics.

I find the act annoying and irrelevant, but it's clearly in the realm of the First Amendment - so no politician should be making a huge deal of it on the right.

I also wouldn't care if the business owners made their employees stand, since they're on the clock in the company uniform when all of this goes down.

I do worry when I see "all" the players protesting. If this happens, then mathematically at least a few of them must be kneeling against their will - and their 1st Amendment rights are being challenged due to peer pressure from their co-workers.

I care because it seams the announcers don't stop talking about it during the broadcast. I rarely begin watching the games before they start, and don't want to hear political BS during the game, even if I agree with their viewpoint.

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Problem is, until those people care enough to stop spending time and money on it, they'll continue to spit in our face.

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Came here to say something along these lines. The same people who claim they love this country and don't agree with BLM are the ones still tuning into all these sports that indorse this terrorist group.

Have a little back bone and stand up for what is right.

Yankees, Nationals did it right yesterday. They did their peaceful protest before the anthem and all stood for the National Anthem. I have no problem with that.

We had one kid in elementary school who would sit down during the pledge, nobody liked that kid.

Athletes kneel to protest their supposed oppression but have no problem cashing millions of dollars in checks from white team owners.

I don't really care, but I have an opinion on it. Don't throw a bitch fit when you ask my opinion and it doesn't jive with yours; see: Dree Brees.