Is protesting the basis for "bullying"? Is it a sign of how to get "your" way?  How many of those football players and coaches have served in the military protecting the FREEDOM to have football games? To be respectful of the National Anthem is to be respectful of "your" country. I hope went the Olympics come around and the United States wins metals, that there is no National Anthem played and the Athlete take a knee. I think that would that get the message to the world that our country is falling apart? Thomas Jefferson said "Democracy Never Last Forever". Oh I forgot... we shouldn't quote him because he had slaves....