Football Nuts Getting Kneed

I have never been a fan of football. Watching a pack of oversized babies in tights piling on top of each other, all in service to a little ball they desperately want to get to their end of the playing field -- for what purpose I have never understood -- simply does not capture my attention. Add to that the fact that many players suffer concussions and other brain injuries, some so dire they eventually choose suicide to escape the horror of their existence, making it complete lunacy to still allow young children to participate. So I literally could not care less if the NFL pro players kneel during the playing of our national anthem. How does that hurt me, or anyone else?

Lemmings are actually quite solitary creatures.

The only thing about this whole brouhaha currently sweeping the nation (thanks to non-stop coverage by the salivating media eager for any story that gets them to the next commercial or fills their column inches) is the way they all say the same thing when referring to a player who got down on one knee in protest. "He took a knee," they say. Why not "He kneeled" or "He was kneeling?" If it's because the person was down on one knee and not two that's dumb, since the definition of kneeled is "to rest on one or both knees." And Stevie Wonder, who isn't even a football player, proudly shared that he "took two knees" at a recent concert, in solidarity with his African American brothers.

Where, I wonder, are people "taking" all these knees? Out to dinner? On vacation? Is there a giant knee repository somewhere? Why can't everyone simply say "kneeled" and be done with it?

I hate that trendy talk. Are we really all lemmings? And by the way, lemmings don't really follow each other over cliffs. That happened maybe one time and it was just a couple of unfortunate lemmings that went over. But the fact that everyone still says "lemmings" when they mean everyone follows everyone else just shows even more what lemmings we are, if lemmings actually did that.