TOPIC FOR ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW RADIO 9-27-2017 

After the Presdient assault on the NFL players and their owners  is was clear  thyat Sunday was always going to be a day of reckoning. Donald Trump, whose rants against Stephen Curry and the “son of a bitch” N.F.L. players who had chosen to “disrespect” the “Flag (or Country),” as Trump tweeted, by kneeling during the national anthem, had all but ordained it so. At the day’s first football game, at Wembley Stadium, in London, twenty-seven players from the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Baltimore Ravens dropped down and took a knee on the field as “The Star-Spangled Banner” began to swell. According to the Guardian, “there did not appear to be any white players taking a knee.” Standing above the downturned heads of the kneelers, a number of players and coaches interlocked arms. Shahid Khan, the owner of the Jaguars, who donated a million dollars to President Trump’s Inauguration, threaded himself between the tight end Marcedes Lewis and the linebacker Telvin Smith, both of whom are black. “Our team and the National Football League reflects our nation, with diversity coming in many forms—race, faith, our views, and our goals,” Khan said later in a statement. The sports commentator Art Stapleton tweeted that the image of Khan among his men was “powerful.”