The Miami Dolphins announced Thursday that they, as a team, will stay in the locker room during the playing of both national anthems this season.
BREAKING NEWS: The@MiamiDolphins players will stay inside for both national anthems. They express their discontentment with what they call “fluff and empty gestures” by the @NFL pic.twitter.com/ghUktHhPt9
— Jay Williams (@RealJayWilliams) September 10, 2020
Entering the 2020 season, the Dolphins are the first team to announce a social justice gesture during the anthems.
Miami players released a video asking if the NFL's gestures on social justice ventures were "authentic."
"Now there's two anthems. Do we kneel? Do we stand? If we could just right our wrongs, we wouldn't need two songs," the players said.
"We don't need another publicity parade, so we'll just stay inside until it's time to play the game."
The powerful two-minute, 15-second video was punctuated by Dolphins head coach Brian Flores.
"Before the media starts wondering and guessing, they just answered all your questions," he said. "We'll just stay inside."
