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Tag: “How the NFL sells (and profits from) the inextricable link between football and war”

Solidarity with Kaepernick ripples through the NFL on Sept. 11

On Sunday, a small group of National Football League players risked their careers, their endorsements and their livelihoods. They did so through the simple act of refusal. They stood in the proudest tradition of athletes who have used their platforms for social change, and they have already felt a backlash that would ring familiar, almost note-for-note, to anyone acquainted with what that last generation had to endure.