Our great country was founded on protest.  A lot of people here need to learn some real American history--Samuel Adams, the Sons of Liberty, Tar and Feathering, the beating of tax collectors and the burning of their houses and the Boston Tea Party.  If it wasn't for dissent, some of it very violent, we wouldn't have a United States of America or a national anthem to stand for.  If you want to look at a country where everyone stands like robots agreeing to whatever their leader says then look no further than North Korea.  And, if you don't stand there they probably take you in the back and put a bullet in your head and your family.  Is this the kind of America we want?   I prefer one that allows for peaceful protest that is being demonstrated by these players, one where we honor freedom of speech, even speech that we don't agree with.  That's the true America.