FOXBOROUGH, MASS.—Several NFL owners locked arms with their players this weekend instead of taking a challenge from U.S. President Donald Trump to fire them for protesting during the national anthem. So why did NFL owners — many of them Trump supporters — back their players instead of their president? Here are a few more questions and answers about the potential consequences of the NFL anthem protests:What does the constitution say? So U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had the law on his side when he said of the protesting football players, “They can do free speech on their own time.”What are players required to do? Period.”)So, what’s going to happen to those football players?

Source: thestar September 26, 2017 15:00 UTC