The entire Seattle Seahawks team will protest the national anthem at opening game Zach Cartwright | September 8, 2016
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The Seattle Seahawks will become the first NFL team to join Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest during the national anthem this Sunday.
In their home opener against the Miami Dolphins, the Seattle Seahawks have planned a “big surprise” during the national anthem, according to starting linebacker Bobby Wagner. Wagner emphasized that the entire roster will take part in the protest, though he didn’t specify if the team would sit or kneel.
“Anything we want to do, it’s not going to be individual. It’s going to be a team thing. That’s what the world needs to see. The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals,” Wagner told the Seattle Times.
The team has the support of head coach Pete Carroll, who recently stood up for cornerback Jeremy Lane when he sat during the national anthem in solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last Thursday before Seattle’s final preseason game against the Oakland Raiders.
“[Lane]’s pretty clear on what he did and what he was trying to express and I think it is very simple and so we’ll leave that up to him,” Carroll told the Times.
In addition to Lane and Wagner, starting wide receiver Doug Baldwin has publicly expressed support for Kaepernick on social media. After Kaepernick started receiving blowback for refusing to stand up for the national anthem, Baldwin defended the protest and cast Kaepernick’s critics as ignorant of what free speech entails.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We honor those who fight for our right to freedom of speech and then condemn those who exercise that right?</p>— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) <a href="">September 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t tell me you just disagree with the methods. You really mean to say you disagree with the cause.</p>— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) <a href="">September 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To change the status quo you have to upset the status quo. Not by going with the flow. <br><br>You have to stand/sit for what you believe in.</p>— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) <a href="">September 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The Seattle Seahawks will become the first NFL team to join Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest during the national anthem this Sunday.
In their home opener against the Miami Dolphins, the Seattle Seahawks have planned a “big surprise” during the national anthem, according to starting linebacker Bobby Wagner. Wagner emphasized that the entire roster will take part in the protest, though he didn’t specify if the team would sit or kneel.
“Anything we want to do, it’s not going to be individual. It’s going to be a team thing. That’s what the world needs to see. The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals,” Wagner told the Seattle Times.
The team has the support of head coach Pete Carroll, who recently stood up for cornerback Jeremy Lane when he sat during the national anthem in solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last Thursday before Seattle’s final preseason game against the Oakland Raiders.
“[Lane]’s pretty clear on what he did and what he was trying to express and I think it is very simple and so we’ll leave that up to him,” Carroll told the Times.
In addition to Lane and Wagner, starting wide receiver Doug Baldwin has publicly expressed support for Kaepernick on social media. After Kaepernick started receiving blowback for refusing to stand up for the national anthem, Baldwin defended the protest and cast Kaepernick’s critics as ignorant of what free speech entails.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We honor those who fight for our right to freedom of speech and then condemn those who exercise that right?</p>— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) <a href="">September 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t tell me you just disagree with the methods. You really mean to say you disagree with the cause.</p>— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) <a href="">September 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To change the status quo you have to upset the status quo. Not by going with the flow. <br><br>You have to stand/sit for what you believe in.</p>— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) <a href="">September 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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