Everyone is desperately picking sides. The NFL itself has decided to embrace the treason... their sponsors, on the other hand, are understandably wary. The NFL figures it needs the players (does it really?), while the sponsors need the general consumer public.
A whole lot of people sympathize with both sides, but few among us can empathize with a man who makes a seven figure salary but won't even say the damned Pledge of Allegiance or whatever. You can cry "privilege," but I spent years waking up to sour orange juice and mandatory pledging, and I don't like the cops any more than Adrian "2 yards per carry" Peterson does. I do my job quietly anyway, because I'm a man, not a boy.
Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.