In response to the renewed protests by numerous football professionals during the national anthem, US Vice President Mike Pence left the stadium at the beginning of the match between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers.Afterwards, Pence wrote on Twitter:”I left today’s Colts game because the President and I don’t appreciate an event that doesn’t respect our soldiers, our flag and our national anthem.
Everyone may have their own opinion, said Donald Trump’s deputy president after leaving Lucas Oil Stadium.
However, it was “not too much demanded of the NFL players to respect the flag and the anthem”.Pence, ex-governor of Indiana, was in the stadium for the award of the former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.
More than 20 professionals from San Francisco had kneeled during the hymn. In 2016, former 49’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick was the first player to express his protest explicitly against racism and police violence in the USA.
The pros of the Colts stood up during the anthem wearing black T-shirts saying,”We stand up for equality, justice, unity, respect, dialogue, opportunity.”
The US president had fired the protests in US sports himself when he called on the NFL club owners at the end of September to dismiss protesting players he called sons of bitches.Fans should also boycott the NFL games as long as the protests continue during the anthem.
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