Some owners were upset with a comment by Lockhart a few days after President Trump criticized the league and its players for kneeling during the anthem. The attacks by the president, though, were so unusual that “you can’t dump this at his feet,” one team executive said of Lockhart. Unlike his boss, who has worked more than four decades at the league office, Lockhart’s links to football are thinner. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAfter weeks of back and forth, and owners flirting with requiring players to stand, fewer players are kneeling during the anthem. Lockhart was interested in returning to New York and, he said, taking on a complex challenge to make the N.F.L.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2017 09:00 UTC