Recently, on Friday night at a Trump rally in Alabama, President Trump called out the NFL players who were protesting the National Anthem, it all started with the Kaepernick controversy in 2016 and eventually the National Anthem protests started to sprawl up during the beginning of the 2017-18 NFL season. Trump told that whichever player protests the National Anthem should have a right to be fired from their job as they can’t have free speech at a workplace, I do support some of these players right to free speech but not in the NFL stadium before the game. Then comes the following Saturday, where the controversy spread to Twitter with the hashtag #TakeAKnee launched by leftists in support of NFL players taking a knee to protest the National Anthem. This controversy eventually got to the NBA, with stars like Stephen Curry refusing to visit the White House after winning the 2017 NBA Finals and LeBron James calling Trump a “bum”. Of course, this only made the controversy even worse and made the NBA’s conservative fanbase upset, and then last night it spread to the MLB when an Athletics rookie named Bruce Maxwell became the first MLB player to not stand for the National Anthem. It seems that the cancer that is Anti-Americanism has sadly spread to the sports world, the only leagues that haven’t been involved in the controversy are the NHL and MLS. But, then again America doesn’t really care too much for hockey or soccer as they are more international sports. We as a country, and as sports fans need to pressure the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLS to unite under the same American flag and to promote patriotic pre-game practices, with the purpose of honoring America and representing the greatest country in the world. This similiar thing happened back in the 2001-02 NFL season shortly after the 9/11 attacks, when former commissioner Paul Taligbue called for universal patriotic pre-game practices before NFL games during the 2001-02 regular season, it got so patriotic that the Super Bowl’s logo was changed to a more patriotic feel and a team called the New England Patriots started a 5-title dynasty from that day forth. So, I’m all asking for is stop with this anti-American bullshut, we must unite as a country and we can do that through sports whether it be in American sports or International sports.

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