NFL Owners’ Unilateral Decision About Anthem Spells Trouble — An Analysis

By Jordan Kobritz   After spending months in discussions, NFL owners announced a compromise that, according to them, will end a two-year run of national anthem protests by players.As biographer James Boswell wrote in the Life of Samuel Johnson, the NFL owners’ so-called “compromise” is little more than a triumph of hope over experience.    The new policy, heralded as a unanimous vote that post-announcement comments by a number of owners made clear was anything but, requires play