“Both sides are fairly dug in about whether or not they think the NFL is doing the right thing or the wrong thing,” Carter said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
If anything, the NFL’s decision, which gives players the option to stay in the locker room during the national anthem, may have been a mistake from a business perspective, Carter said.
“Having a clear and concise policy that applies across the board gives the people you do business with comfort, and there’s no ambiguity about your business. So taking that middle-of- the-road approach has not delivered clarity to any of its business partners,” Carter said.
The NFL did not respond to a request for comment, but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement upon the announcement of the policy that “it was unfortunate that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic. This is not and was never the case.”
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