Spent ten years in the league. daunte, as you know, the last, let s say, five years or so, the nfl constantly in the political headlines in part because former president trump would always drag them there, attacking players over kneeling for the national anthem, making football about politics. as we all know, there s no separating sports and politics, and really the politics of race in this country. no, there isn t. when you look back to 1968, just a couple months after dr. martin luther king was assassinated and you had tommy lee smith and mr. carlos were in mexico city protesting with their fists up, and they were called everything from the new nazis to just just disparaging names when they were protesting in the middle of what became the civil rights era