evidence: During the last week of the 2017 NFL regular season, seven players knelt down during the national anthem: Duane Brown, Marquise Goodwin, Eli Harold, Louis Murphy, Eric Reid, Stills and Olivier Vernon. This action has become almost mundane: At least one player has knelt during the anthem every week since Colin Kaepernick started what are often mischaracterized as the "anthem protests." The demonstrations reached peak participation in September, immediately after President Donald Trump suggested that players who took a knee should be fired. At that point, only Reid was actively protesting by kneeling during the anthem. But following Trump’s comments, more than 100 players knelt in Week 3, and dozens more offered gestures of solidarity—some, like the Cowboys’ Jerry Jones-led pre-anthem kneel, with debatable levels of sincerity. [...] Koran has had season tickets to the Jets since they moved into MetLife Stadium eight seasons ago. On this September Sunday, he has just watched Stills, Thomas, Julius Thomas, Laremy Tunsil and Maurice Smith kneel during the anthem in response to Trump’s saying protesting players should be fired. The 37-year-old, at the game with his wife and kids, is wearing a T-shirt with one of the most popular names in NFL merch on it: ALI & BROWN & ROBINSON & SMITH & CARLOS & KAEPERNICK.