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NFL Protests: Keep sports in sports section

I want to add my whine to this issue. I’m a guy that gets shivers when the national anthem is playing, but I still fully, absolutely, with no reservation, support people taking a knee.

My problem with this issue is it being on the opinion page. As a normal person who never reads the sports pages (which are not even good for fish wrap), I want to know how this is “news.”

Keep sports on the sports page. Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the masses. In our time it is football.

This story was originally published October 8, 2017 at 4:37 PM with the headline "NFL Protests: Keep sports in sports section."

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