A majority of Houston Texans players took a knee during the national anthem Sunday in a direct rebuke of the team’s owner, Bob McNair, whose comment at a recent owners meeting that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison” sparked outrage. But when the topic came up at the recent meetings between NFL team owners, they ultimately decided not to adopt any sort of rule change that would require the players to stand during the national anthem. For the NFL, this latest fracas with the Texans could set up for a tense meeting between players and league officials. The president continued his charges on Twitter, lambasting the players for kneeling and the owners for allowing them to do so. Notably, as players across the league knelt that Sunday in response to Trump, the Texans players all stood and instead locked arms.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 29, 2017 20:47 UTC