Ravens Tight End: Trump’s National Anthem Talk was ‘A Direct Attack on Our Brotherhood’

9/25/17

By Ethan McLeod, Baltimore Fishbowl

Ben Watson didn’t kneel during the National Anthem yesterday in London, but he was right there in the chain of Ravens players and staff who locked arms in solidarity.

The Ravens tight end went on ABC’s “Good Morning America” today to discuss the furor of yesterday’s anti-Trump protests across the NFL, in which players on roughly two dozen teams knelt, sat, locked arms or stayed in their lockers room to challenge comments made by the president on Friday about players silently protesting during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

That evening, the leader of the United States appeared at a rally in Hunstville, Ala., and said players like Colin Kaepernick who engage in peaceful, kneeling protest during the National Anthem should be fired.

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