Comment: Well you have ONE correct sentence in there anyway, while the rest is bunk.

The first sentence is true.  Yes, like a telemarketer that pisses people off by calling at dinnertime to sell them something, most people don't even care what they're trying to sell.  Similarly, when these players piss fans off by disrespecting the national anthem, they don't even care what their cause is.  It's like insulting someone's wife and then asking them to sign a petition.    

That's exactly what I've been saying.  These players are foolishly undercutting their own message and creating a backlash against them by choosing to willfully disrespect the national anthem.  It's a REALLY ineffective sales job.  They must have flunked Marketing 101.