OPINION:
To NFL executives, team owners, athletes and the staff in the West Wing:
What President Trump said last week was wrong, but what the players did last weekend was also wrong (“Sure, players can kneel — and NFL’s customers should walk,” Web, Sept. 24). Two wrongs do not make a right. Law 36 USC 301 is the federal law concerning the national anthem and the requirements for it. Might I suggest that the White House and the NFL both go back and read it.
To the team owners and the league executives that have permitted this behavior for far too long, shame on you. To the overpaid athletes who want to protest something, please feel free to peaceably do so — while not on company time. Any other employer would have fired you for doing personal business on company time.
To the corporate sponsors and TV networks who support this league, I will take my meager business elsewhere. To the mainstream media that encourages this rudeness and yet demeaned other athletes for quietly acknowledging their Creator, shame on you, too. I would encourage you to remember to apologize to God before you take your last breath.
When you allow this behavior, you are disrespecting the men and women who gave and defended your right to freedom of expression. I know this first-hand because for just shy of 33 years, I was one of those people, and in that time, I buried more than a dozen good men and women who truly gave it all at work. I buried others who died from work-related medical issues. They did not just get sweaty and tired playing a game for a living.
As you might imagine, like many other veterans and first responders and their families, I am done with professional football and any corporate entity that supports it.
ANTHONY RAHAIM
Johns Island, S.C.
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