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“This is bigger than football”: why NFL players are kneeling in defiance of Trump

The president has picked a fight with the closest thing the US has to a religion – American football.

By Nicky Woolf

The personal joy Donald Trump seems to take in going to war with American institutions is already legendary. He has taken aim at celebrities, politicians, and nationally revered institutions.

During the campaign, he hit out at senator John McCain for having been captured and tortured in Vietnam. He has even gone after the Pope. But this weekend he may have finally picked a fight with someone his own size: the National Football League. 

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