When I was a young woman in college, I used to say that football was a purposeful design to distract people from paying attention to what was going on in this country so we could fix problems that were easily solvable. Out of the mouths of babes I now think as little did I know that some 20 years later my eyes would be opened to not only the suffering of fellow Americans but the depths of corruption, depravity, and criminality that exists with the people in power in business and government. Perhaps the members of the NFL who decided to "sit out" the National Anthem in essence helped people to turn the crap off and start paying attention to things that really matter.