"If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Within hours, more than a dozen players kneeled in defiance during the US national anthem before an NFL game at London's Wembley Stadium between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens. Khan was among the seven owners in the 32-team NFL who made donations of at least 1 million dollars to Trump's inauguration committee. "Great solidarity for our National Anthem and for our Country," he tweeted. The national anthem protests began before the start of the 2016 season with Colin Kaepernick, formerly quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, who said that his motivation was to protest police shootings and injustices.

Source: The China Post September 25, 2017 03:56 UTC