NFL owners will vote Wednesday morning on a resolution that would change the league’s policy on the national anthem.
ESPN’s Seth Wickersham reported that the resolution “would remove requirement for players to be on the field for national anthem, allow them to stay in locker room if they wish, and will fine clubs, not players, if ’personnel do not show proper respect for the flag and anthem.’”
All politics is local, all owners have different relationships with players, and so I believe that owners will leave today’s morning session with a resolution to ask players to stay in the locker room rather than protest, but to allow teams to set their own anthem policy.
— Seth Wickersham (@SethWickersham) May 23, 2018
Owners right now expected to vote on a proposal that would remove requirement for players to be on the field for national anthem, allow them to stay in locker room if they wish, and will fine clubs, not players, if “personnel do not show proper respect for the flag and anthem.”
— Seth Wickersham (@SethWickersham) May 23, 2018
According to ESPN, the NFL has also floated ideas such as: imposing a 15-yard penalty for kneeling, adding contract language that requires players to stand or clearing the field of all football personnel during the anthem.
The league is discussing the issue at its spring meetings in Atlanta.
• Matthew Paras can be reached at mparas@washingtontimes.com.
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