Julia Vergara | Staff Writer
The NFL has been receiving many mixed reactions and responses to the recent protests taking place during football games. Many athletes and athletic teams have been taking a knee or sitting while the national anthem plays, leading many people to accuse the athletes of disrespecting the U.S. and others to defend their right to peacefully protest.
Kirk Wakefield, Edwin W. Streetman professor of retail marketing and executive Director of Baylor’s Center for Sports Sponsorship and Sales, has been watching how different generations respond to the protests and said millennials and older generations are responding differently.