National SOB League Can Never Forget the Noble Man Who Brought Them Together

So after one day, the NSOBL (the National Son-Of-A-Bitch League, as if you couldn't guess) has survived the contemptible brain-burps of the Panderer-In-Chief. Now we'll see if the players' fury has true staying power.
 
And by staying power, we don't mean whether they will continue to defy the call of the National Anthem (an easy enough task), but whether they view their newfound solidarity as something that needs to be nurtured to truly endure.
 
After all, it's easy to be galvanized by the noisy neighbor who spends his day on the porch shouting irrational obscenities at the neighbors. But Donald Trump isn't the issue; he never was. All he did was put a face to the idiocies that prevent us from being the country we should be.
 
But this started a year ago with a single knee, a single person, and a broader cause than a President who needs to pick fights the way a vampire needs naked necks. Colin Kaepernick, whose career as a football player is essentially over because he caused the NFL a headache by honoring his conscience, took his knee to protest police excesses, and didn't need to be called a son of a bitch to do so. He was later, of course, part of the medley of all the other insults that followed, but he didn't kneel because he was insulted. He knelt because other were, and worse.
 
But the beauty of these days is that we take any idea or action and immediately change its meaning to fit our own prejudices. Kaepernick's message was too nuanced for a lot of people's facilities because they value symbols more than people, but nobody doesn't understand being called a son of a bitch by a boss you hate.
 
So the new NSOBL is just starting to coalesce. There will not be a shortage of reasons for players to find their voice and conscience, and to break the bonds that required them to ask permission before speaking or thinking. If they are as they purport to be, they will remember that change happens with a single son of a bitch.

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