If high-profile athletes want to make a difference, there are better and more meaningful responses than dissing the national anthem and turning a sporting event into a national soapbox
Dissing Star-Spangled Banner insults vast majority of fans
DALLAS, Texas—It was probably too good to last—that Americans of all economic classes, backgrounds and political persuasions could briefly escape these hyper-political times and watch a sporting event.
Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, may have changed all of that.
He’s not the first to infuse politics into sports. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, for example, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the 200-meter race gold and bronze winners, were expelled after holding up black-gloved fists at their award presentation during the playing of the national anthem.
