Take it a step further and forfeit your paycheck for the game.
Via Seattle PI:
The Seattle Seahawks will stand and lock arms as a demonstration of unity prior to their season-opening game with the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, according to wide receiver Doug Baldwin.
In a video tweeted out Saturday, Baldwin revealed the team’s plans for a pregame demonstration, which Baldwin first hinted at on Wednesday. Here’s the entire transcript of the video, which is narrated by the Seattle receiver:
“We are a team comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds, and as a team we have chosen to stand and interlock arms in unity. We honor those who have fought for the freedom we cherish, and we stand to ensure the riches of freedom and the security of justice for all people. Progress can and will be made only if we stand together.”
Martin Luther King Jr. once famously said “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”#BuildABridge pic.twitter.com/n1qP5c2RGM
— Doug Baldwin Jr (@DougBaldwinJr) September 10, 2016The Seahawks’ show of unity comes on the heels of pregame protests begun by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Kaepernick first sat, then knelt during the playing of the national anthem during the preseason as a way of protesting unequal treatment of minorities in America — specifically cases of police brutality against African-Americans. He was joined by Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane before Seattle’s preseason finale at Oakland on Sept.1.
The form of the players’ activism has generated nationwide controversy, which, according to Baldwin, misses the point of the demonstrations.
“I think that’s what the issue is here,” Baldwin said on Wednesday. “We’re missing the message in terms of what we’re talking about. It’s not necessarily about the messenger or about the protest itself. It’s about what we’re pointing to.”
On Friday, DuPont, Washington, Mayor Mike Courts cancelled a Seahawks rally scheduled for Saturday, saying the city refused to “offer official support of the Seahawks, NFL, or individual players” because of potential pregame actions he deemed “hurtful to the community.”