Not one minute. Not this year and not one minute in 2016. I refuse to watch a bunch of misguided, ignorant millionaires disrespect our anthem, our flag, our vets and our republic to promote a lie.

They not only don’t stand in American stadiums, they knelt during the playing of our National Anthem in London and Mexico City, and then had the unmitigated gall to stand for the foreign anthems in front of foreign audiences. They have influenced college, high school and pewee players to kneel as well. Will you join me?

I confess. I was once a season ticket holder for the St. Louis Cardinals from the time they opened Busch Stadium II in St. Louis in 1966. I held those tickets until 1986 when my travel schedule interfered with the scheduled games. In 1988, the Cardinals dumped St. Louis for Arizona and that settled that. When I moved to Florida I ordered the NFL TV package for a few years. Then the St. Louis Rams dumped St. Louis for Los Angeles. The NFL became the No Fun League.

Allow me to sum it up this way. The Nonsense Football League is run by a commissioner who made $44.2 million dollars in 2012 and now is negotiating for a bigger contract. His mismanagement includes numerous scandals and ludicrous decisions running the gamut from deflated footballs to violent assaults by millionaire players on defenseless women. Then we have billionaire owners who move franchises at a whim while living lavish lives in their luxury boxes and at their luxurious meetings in fabulous hotels none of us could afford to walk through the front door. And we’re paying for all of this.

According , the league and its TV partners — CBS, Fox Sports, ESPN and NBC — have already lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Ratings have dropped overall by 20 percent since 2015. The TV partners are on track to lose $500 million this year alone.

A recent Thursday night game had a 9.7 result in metered market ratings down 10% from last year’s Thanksgiving NFL match-up on the Comcast-owned net.

A recent Monday Night Football had a 7.2 in metered market result. Down 9% from the previous week. Perhaps some sanity will come to the forefront.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color, Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.

I have not witnessed bodies in the streets, nor do the statistics support white police killings of blacks to be a catastrophic number. I am not familiar with racism in America. I have never met a white supremacist. I am sure there are some reprehensible people in America, just as I am sure they are in a small minority and they encompass all races, religions and ethnic backgrounds.

God Bless us all and God Save our American from this disgraceful behavior. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our American Flag, our culture, our country, our civilization, our currency, our children, our liberty, our safety and our future need you now more than ever.