There are many good and bad arguments about moral and civil rights to this issue. However, the game is about a singular notion: winning points to qualify for the playoffs and to seek the ultimate price of claiming its championship.  Every owners and manager's objective is clearly that, even if perhaps every player is not working to that interest. While Kapies position is sound and clearly nobel with  exceptional merit, one must ask what is the real point of the distraction or exhibition, other than a counter push,in that sense what is the real cost here? Neither the world nor the USA is a perfect place, the NFL has greater probelms than an aging quarterback that may or may not have the "stuff" to compete any longer. Players, come and go, but the institution of the game still remains, even if it is flawed.  What is the real obligation of management on any given Sunday?