CasualBystander
Celestial
This isn't about the 1st amendment, obviously...
These guys get paid to do their job and if their job requires them to stand they must, clearly their job isn't defined well enough for the money they make...If I refused to do something my employer expects of me I will be fired, as those players who kneel should also be fired...
Before 2009 they stood in the tunnel during the National Anthem.
So no it has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
If the team decided it they would wait in the locker room.
People who say it is about freedom of speech are either lying or too stupid to talk to.
And freedom of speech doesn't apply to the private sector ... sort of.
You only get to call your boss an *sshole in front of the rest of the staff once.