New England Patriots players protest during the national anthem on Sunday.
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September 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Patriotic, Trump-supporting Americans are escalating their campaign and rhetoric against the National Football League after players and owners defied President Donald Trump’s harsh criticism of players who kneel rather than stand in reverence during the pregame singing of the National Anthem on game day.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a [b—h] off the field right now, out, he’s fired. He’s fired,'” Trump said Friday during a winding, off-the-cuff speech in Huntsville, Alabama, in support of Republican Senate candidate Sen. Luther Strange.
In response, dozens of NFL players took a knee Sunday or locked arms in unison standing to protest Trump’s remarks. Some coaches and even owners linked arms with players as well. In one NFL game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars played in London, a total of about two dozen American football players from both teams went down on one knee during the singing of the U.S. anthem but then stood for the British national anthem.
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