Letter: Just don't watch them play
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald takes a knee during the first day of the team's NFL football training camp, Saturday, July 22, 2017, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
If everyone offended by the failure of overpaid NFL players to show appropriate respect for our national anthem and all that is thereby represented simply declined to watch them play, that would straighten them out in a week.
A. Lamont Tyler
Millcreek
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