Football season has been my favorite time of year for several years, until this one.

Why? Because, much like every other random thing in this country, people are determined to make everything about politics in order to fight "the government" or "show Trump." It's starting to get annoying when I can't even enjoy football on Sunday's. I let you people freak out over breastfeeding and statues without a word, but don't take football from me.

It is so frustrating as a normal human being to try and watch my favorite sport - the favorite sport of many - and have to deal with people talking about politics rather than the sport itself. Instead of hearing about what team is actually better than the other, I hear about who kneeled and who didn't. I'm not going to change my ideas on teams due to that - sorry.

Last Sunday, I watched NFL and all I heard about the entire time was how people were either kneeling or not kneeling rather than being able to actually enjoy the sport, and it pissed me off to no end. Why can’t people just let others enjoy things? Why does every little thing have to be about politics now? If you're going to try and be a politician, get off the football field. Done and done.

Are there not better things for us to focus our time on, such as the devastation in Puerto Rico? Instead of zoning our energy on ruining a good sport, we should be looking those areas of devastation, or working to actually make a difference in our country. Yet, instead of focusing on true politics, we are boycotting a sport because people are either kneeling or not kneeling for the Anthem.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea behind the kneeling is a powerful one, but you’re going about it the wrong way and I think that’s unfair. Instead of working together to create an actual solution to a problem, you’re just pissing people off with no results actually occurring to benefit our country. Due to this, some teams didn’t even come to the stadium until after the anthem, which is ridiculous. Politics don’t belong in football. Period.

I’m sorry, I know this is a sensitive subject that many people are fighting with, but I’ll be damned if I sit idly by while people attempt to ruin the sport I love so much. Not only that, but since football is one of the biggest sports in the United States, this protest is simply causing a larger divide between everyone, and that is the opposite direction that we need to be heading in. Instead of working against one another, we need to bond together. But, while we do that, leave football alone. Thanks.