There was a time when Men and Women each took pride in their unique traits. Each holding a humble, yet distinct set of talents that was respected by the opposite sex . It was this respect that forwarded the social processes by which each individual sex would advance itself. With a suitable, respectable mate in mind they would continue to improve themselves, hoping one day for that white picket fence and a big yard for Fido.
That dream is now dead.
We have a misrepresentation of what would be "Reality" taking place on the television screens of today. These sports used to emulate the strength of what it was to be "American" showing the pride, humility and grace of the American way, whether it was baseball, hockey, football or basketball. There was an American way about it, and it was surely full of honor. Today, we can't start the game without a supremely disrespectful act being forced upon us, as if we the people must simply accept the decisions of a TAX PAYER FUNDED organization and their virtue signaling NONSENSE.
Taking the knee is a long honored tradition, much like those who would clean the shit from the stool for royalty. Taking a knee was done without request, as it were common that lords would receive fellatio from their subjects, and even knights. This action has long since been used on the Football field as a gesture of unification for the wounded, a silent prayer that the wounded would stand on his own or leave and soon return.
That is no longer the case.
Now; It is our teams which have traveled to a country which we declared independence from. Upon arrival they then planned without any actual sense of what they were doing, to take a knee and then subsequently stand for the British national anthem.
So not only do you have the act of subservience, the age old, tested, bending of the knee; You have the immediate standing and respect shown for the host country. This is an absolute outrage, an embarrassment, and all of these men need to moxie up and get their knees off the ground.
We have lost the respect, and honor that used to exist within these American Pass-times and now have replaced them with Political nonsense that no one wishes to see. You can expect a massive drop in attendance and viewership, I can promise you that much.
P.S.
Mike Tomlin; You have no right to force an apology out of a Combat Vet, OEF,3 time deployed now NFL player. You have no right to tell him to take a knee, and he did the correct thing regardless of what you felt the need to "Rip him" for.