September 23, 2016

What Colin Kaepernick's Political Protest Says About the NFL

The NFL is a league that has always been focused on order, power and control. Players are meant, mostly, to be anonymous, interchangeable and above all, compliant: This is a league, after all, where all the players have masks and non-guaranteed contracts. It's also a league that, for all its issues of the last few seasons, has mostly been able to stay out of the culture wars. But all that changed in a preseason game last month, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided not to

Source: Bloomberg Politics