<p>The NFL national anthem story isn&#8217;t going away anytime soon. During many debate shows that air on cable sports networks, it was topic one. This was especially true during true during FS1&#8217;s Undisputed with Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe.</p> 
<p>As the FS1 Dynamic Duo began discussing the topic, Sharpe went on an incredible eight-minute rant on how NFL owners suddenly got an awakening about President Trump&#8217;s comments at an Alabama rally about players who kneel during the national anthem.</p> 
<p>Sharpe first said he was &#8220;disappointed and &#8230; unimpressed,&#8221; about the whole thing. And then he expressed why he was disappointed and unimpressed:</p> 
<q> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed, Skip and Joy, because this is the tipping point. Of the 7,537 things that President Trump has said in the last 50 years, him calling an NFL player a &#8216;SOB&#8217; is what brought the NFL, the owners and players together. And while some might be moved by the conscience of these NFL owners, it wasn&#8217;t their conscience that moved them. It was the cash.</p> <p>Because see Skip, what we know about people with money, they don&#8217;t like to be told what to do&#8230;they don&#8217;t like being bullied. You see, President Trump has bullied a lot of people &#8230;&#8221;</p> </q> 
<p>Sharpe then mentioned Trump&#8217;s comments on Mexico, attacking a Gold Star family after last year&#8217;s Democratic National Convention, and his statements to former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about women saying, &#8220;that did not shock the conscience of NFL owners.&#8221;</p> 
<p>And he also pointed out a number of owners, including Jerry Jones, Daniel Snyder, Shad Khan, and Robert Kraft, who contributed to Trump&#8217;s inauguration.</p> 
<q> <p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m unimpressed because this wasn&#8217;t a protest. This was unity. So what are we showing solidarity against, Skip? We&#8217;re showing solidarity because President Trump .. he challenged the very men &#8230; wealthy, wealthy men &#8230; billionaires and he told them what you should do if someone protests, you should fire them. They don&#8217;t like being told what to do, Skip.</p> <p>&#8220;And then, Skip, he called players that protested the anthem &#8230; he called them &#8216;SOB&#8217;s.&#8217; Think about that now, he called them &#8216;SOB&#8217;s.&#8217; That&#8217;s what got the owners, that&#8217;s what got the players to unite.</p> <p>&#8220;Is that the worst that he&#8217;s ever said? Absolutely not. Never called Vladimir Putin an &#8216;SOB,&#8217; Never called (Erdogan) of Turkey an &#8216;SOB,&#8217; even those men that walked down the streets in Charlottesville, Virginia &#8230; he never said &#8216;SOB&#8217; &#8230;&#8221;</p> </q> 
<p>This was an impassioned Sharpe. He also pointed out Colin Kaepernick, who started the kneeling during the national anthem, was forgotten and the NFL owners were uniting against Donald Trump. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until he came for the NFL that their conscience was shocked!&#8221;</p> 
<p>Sharpe said of all the teams that issued statements this weekend, only the Seattle Seahawks got the reason why they were denouncing the President&#8217;s statements.</p> 
<p>And he also set his sights on fellow FS1 analyst Ray Lewis for previously criticizing Kaepernick and <a href="http://thecomeback.com/nfl/ray-lewis-switched-sides-to-kneel-for-the-anthem-in-london-and-people-werent-thrilled-about-it.html" type="external">then kneeling on the sideline with the Baltimore Ravens</a> in London on Sunday. Sharpe said he was &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; in him, saying Lewis &#8220;sat in that chair right there saying that he could never kneel, never not stand for the national anthem&#8221; citing those who died fighting for the flag and then he went down on both knees. &#8220;What are you kneeling for?&#8221;</p> 
<p>It was one of the more emotional segments on Undisputed in its brief history.</p>
Shannon Sharpe goes after NFL owners’ hypocrisy over “unity”