Longtime Football Fan Disappointed in NFL

To the Editor: 
I did not watch any National Football League (NFL) games this season. What a disappointment the league has been in the last two years. 
They took such a cowardly position on those players who chose to make a political statement on stage that should have been just a sports arena for all young and old to enjoy.
Are you thinking to yourself this guy doesn’t sound much like a football fan? Decide for yourself.
I watched Chuck Bednarik hold Jim Taylor down so the clock would run out to make the Eagles beat the Packers for the 1960 championship.
Do you know why the Eagles fans hate the Dallas Cowboys? I do because I watched that game.
I was a season ticket holder and saw the Eagles beat the New York Giants in their first Monday night football game played at Franklin Field Nov. 24, 1970. Some may remember it as the Howard Cosell hang-over game.
I am a Vietnam veteran and would like people to remember the hundreds of thousands of Americans who came home in boxes under the flag. Let the NFL officials stand in front of a Gold Star mother and tell her why they had no backbone and hid when some players denounced that very flag their son or daughter were draped with and the national anthem they saluted.
The same NFL that refused to allow the Dallas Cowboys to put decals on their helmets in the 2016 preseason to honor five Dallas policemen killed in the line of duty and show their support; their reason was it was too controversial. That same NFL allowed Budweiser to have a 2017 Super Bowl commercial highlighting immigrants. There’s nothing controversial about immigration, right?
That same NFL refused a program ad from the AMVETS organization this year that depicted an American flag that read “Please stand for the national anthem.” Talk about a double standard.
I never missed watching a Super Bowl since the first one till now. I feel sorry for the ballplayers who served their country because the league is not for red, white, and blue. In my opinion, their colors are for money green and coward yellow.
I could have never imagined anything that would ruin my over 60 years of passion for the Eagles and pro football, but they found a way. Shame on the NFL.
It was a long wait to see the excitement and celebrations that a Super Bowl win would bring, but at what a cost? I guess I’m one of the few who didn’t drink the Kool-Aid.