Slow Boil Finally Bubbles Over For Winnipeg Jets Captain Blake Wheeler
The Winnipeg Jets captain took to Twitter on Saturday and issued two tweets in response to comments made by United States President Donald Trump at a rally in Alabama on Friday night, which criticized NFL players for kneeling during the American national anthem, suggesting owners of those players, whom he referred each individually as a “son of a ,” should fire them. Trump went on to say that players, who are enacting their First Amendment rights to free speech and peaceful protest, were ruining the game by disrespecting the anthem by kneeling....