For the second consecutive Sunday, several NFL players took a knee during the national anthem or raised their fist. Before the season began, the network had decided not to show the anthem, with two exceptions. The network did not carry the anthem preceding the Sept. 18 game between the Detroit Lions and New York Giants. An exception was made before the games of Week 3, with protests everywhere, by Fox, CBS, NBC, the NFL Network and DirecTV. “As is standard procedure, regionalized coverage of NFL games airing on Fox this Sunday will not show the national anthem live,” Fox had announced in a statement Sunday.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 14:30 UTC