Never happen. Trump and others tried in the 80s. What will instead happen, I suspect, is that NFL will realize the damage done and rather than reign in their employees, they will likely try to stop the anthem and flag waving.
“...they will likely try to stop the anthem and flag waving.”
If/when that happens, it will be a very tangible sign we’ve lost our country.
If the NFL stops the anthem as a solution, the NBA and MLB will do the same thing. Then that will trickle down to all high school and club sports.
It is important when we gather for all events that we remember we are one in freedom under the flag symbolizing the best experiment in self-governing the world has ever known. We pause a moment before engaging in “serious play” and youthful competition to give thanks both to the nation in abstract and to all those who have served and sacrificed to KEEP our nation. For us.
I am passionate about keeping the anthem at sporting events. I believe these rituals KEEP us American. We are halfway between the earthy animals and the heavenly angels and we need rituals, sensory actions, to keep us. Imagine religion with no rituals. It’s nothing but air. WE NEED TO PREVENT a major sport from doing away with our anthem and flag as “divisive.” It is a shot to the heart.