trying to have your cake and eat it too. you re trying to say the contract allows people to re-enforce the idea that inequality is okay. that s exactly what you re saying. bruce, first of all, your premise is wrong. first, in the nba, there is a contract that says you ve got to stand for the national anthem. that s not the contract in the national football league. we sign a contract. the contract does not say i ve got to stand for the national anthem. so your premise is flawed. there is no contract saying when i sign this, i m saying i got to stand for the national anthem. that is clearly voluntary. and before, like in the 30s and 40s, my high school coach played, they kept the players in the locker room. then they played the national ant anthem. first, when you sign up in the nfl, you have to go to otas, but in terms of the national anthment, that s clearly traditional and voluntary. you don t have to do that. the second reason, let me tell you this, man. you know why all those ow