I want Sundays back

What happened to the sport? The entire NFL is using the kneeling protest to show inequality, but that’s bringing politics into sports. Sunday used to be the day where families came together after church to watch a bunch of grown men run around and hit each other. Now, people’s way of thinking has changed the entire NFL. Football used to be a way to escape, a place to relax, but now, sadly, the players have put their political views into football, thus dividing the players and fans.

Kneeling has divided the nation so much that for the first time a president has responded with his opinion to show his frustration with a sport. It shows how politics are in the NFL more than ever. Some may ask why not have politics in sports. With politics being involved in football, people self-divide into individual groups while football is all about unity and respect toward others.

Change itself isn’t bad, but the way the NFL is going is saddening. Seeing the NFL divided up into parties like the government isn’t the NFL Arkansans and Americans want to see. If this continues, the NFL may lose a lot of viewers.

Politics are only ruining and dividing the players and fans of our great sport. We as Americans need to stand up and demand that politics and personal sides be taken out of sports. Imagine going back to good old relaxing Sundays. DALTON COX

Little Rock