On Tuesday, the veterans group AMVETS announced that the NFL had rejected their $30,000 ad, to be placed in their Super Bowl LII programs, featuring American soldiers carrying the flag, with the hashtag #PleaseStand. The hashtag obviously referred to the controversial practice by many NFL players of kneeling for the anthem to protest alleged police racism and brutality. “The NFL said it does not want to take a position on that,” said Joe Chenelly, national director of AMVETS. “Really, by not letting us run an ad, we think they are taking a position.”
The NFL’s Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy said that the Super Bowl wasn’t the time for politicking:
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