Hashtags Between the Hashmarks

Sports are a microcosm of society. So it shouldn’t surprise us that some of the presidential election year strife that has soiled social media and every dinner party would have slithered its way into NFL locker rooms as well. And like the rest of the country, the pro football split in the presidential race is largely about race itself — a topic that’s now pitting national anthem kneeling players against their steadfastly standing owners. They don’t call it the National Football League for nothing. From Mike Freeman in Bleacher Report: Donald Trump Is Tearing The NFL Apart. (Interestingly, he pretty much ruined the USFL too.)