I'm not going to sugar coat this, choosing not to stand for the national anthem is a strong and potentially volatile move. It's a divisive issue that is going to stir more people up than satisfy, but where the critics have gone wrong is mislabel people like Colin Kaepernick. The former San Fransisco 49ers quarterback is politically an independent. That means he isn't conservative nor liberal. He did not vote in the presidential election because he did not align himself a with a major candidate, even going as far as saying Hillary Clinton should be in prison! Try telling the fine folks at Fox that as they continue their crusade against Kaep.

What has to happen is simple. Just as sports commentators ought to leave sports and athletes alone with political drama, it's on the mainstream political media and the politicians themselves to refrain from making polarizing comments about sports' business. The NFL's anthem situation is not perfect and neither will the solution be. But in order to "stick to sports," politics is going to have to "stick to politics."

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