re: So actually why were pro football players kneeling during the National Anthem?

I don't care if they are taking the knee because it shows they are willing give head to another man. We, as painful as this is to admit, fought our first War for the right to be complete assholes and not have the government come down on us.

Damn it I am willing to fight to the death for my right to be an a-hole and I'll even, grudgingly, fight to my first mild injury, for the right of other people to be the assholes they were born to be.

It is their right to kneel during the National Anthem. And its the NFL owner's right to drop the hammer on them for doing so. Free speech just means the government can't hump you. So if they want to kneel, and I don't like it, it is their right to do so and I'm fine with that.

Bingo!