NFL officials are looking to eliminate the rule to prevent players
from kneeling during the national anthem, in a move that
coincides with protests in the United States against racism.
And the “ISBN” network revealed on its website that the
President of the American Federation Cindy Barlowe Kuhn
hoped to raise this issue during the Board of Directors meeting
scheduled for Tuesday, before a union spokesman later
confirmed that the latter “would study abolishing the base.”
The federation issued the decision in 2017, which requires
players to “stand with respect” during the national anthem.
The move came after star Megan Rapino knelt on one knee in
2016, in solidarity with her compatriot Colin Copernic,
the former San Francisco football player who kneeled on one
knee during the national anthem earlier in the same year to call
for his country to protect Americans ’rights from violence
Police, especially black skin.
Kneeling on one knee became a symbolic symbol of solidarity,
and came back to the forefront during the recent protests in
the United States, in the aftermath of the killing of an African-
American citizen, George Floyd, last May 25 by a white
policeman, after he pressed his knee on his neck for minutes
without He cares for his cries, “I can’t breathe.”
The movement moved to the stadiums in Europe, where many
players in the German league showed their solidarity with Floyd
by kneeling on one knee, in addition to the English and
Liverpool teams during training sessions.
And the network “ISBN” indicated that if the Federation’s Board
of Directors voted to cancel the decision, it would immediately
enter into force, but it would need to vote on it at
the Federation’s annual meeting next year.
