this. i think they sort of recognize that they have a leverage in terms of labor in pushing the players in this unpatriot irk corner, making the public believe that they re not citizens. mike pence within hours of this announcement, he simply retweeted a story about it. #winning. i would assume even the nfl owners who wanted to make this decision would have begged the vice president, what are you doing? stop it. now you ve just made the policy even harder to sell. that goes back to one of the things this whole book is about, chuck, you and i talked about this over the last couple of years, who gets to be american? are we using sports in roger goodell said earlier about not wanting the flag to be disrespected. he wants it to be respected. however, how can you say the flag is being respected in the nfl when teams are charging the