You are missing the point. Even if you are right, they are allowed to protest. They're doing so peacefully. What's the problem?
Mothers, Fathers, daughters and sons receive a flag instead of their brave loved one who sacrificed their life fighting for your freedom. The least these millionaire athletes can do is stand and take part in paying respect to the fallen who carried that flag on their shoulders through battle!
You want to kneel for the national anthem? Thats cute. How bout you kneel or pray afterwards or lead your team in prayer and you all kneel in solidarity to support ones views and bring attention to high crime rates in ghettos, high drug use,robberies, assault, murder. Go make a difference in the communities that need help, dont kneel on Sunday and then retreat to your multi million dollar house Monday thru Saturday.
There are millions of good Americans busting their asses to afford a ticket to your game because they look up to you and need a 3 hr escape from the daily hustle of feeding their family and paying bills. Have some respect for us family members of LEO and Military who deal with ptsd and flags instead of hugs from our loved ones.
To have Kaepernick stand during a pledge of allegiance or national anthem would help close the divide, right now its hurting NFL revenue and hes out of a job, and guys like me who find it wildly disrespectful to my grandfather who stormed the beaches of Normandy and have to kill another man to defeat nazism and come home and pretend nothing ever happened and my wifes grandfather come home from the pacific having seen things no human should ever have to see made him go crazy and not be there for his family.
That flag means more than to ordinary people than it does a millionaire football player who gets his feelings hurt.
You want to live here and reap the benefits and rewards of America? Salute the Flag! Respect your nation and the men and women who give it all for you .