Before the name was announced Thursday morning, @DrewSchiano4 asked, "What should the Seattle NHL team name be?"
A: I'll admit I didn't think it would really be Kraken and thought there were better choices. I liked Sockeyes and in a nod to the past, Metropolitans, but while the Kraken name might have to grow on me a little, I will say that the Seattle Kraken killed it with the logos and color scheme. That secondary anchor/space needle logo is particularly sharp. And most importantly, having NHL hockey in Seattle, no matter what you think of the name, is going to be a great addition to the Seattle sports scene. For those who haven't been able to attend a game, few sports are better live, in relation to the TV viewing experience, than hockey. Definitely check out a game if you can.
Mark Hunter from Lacy says football used to be a sport that celebrated the United States of American and today is all politics, and asks, "Why should I invest my time and money when I see discord and division all day long? The NFL is no longer an escape from my daily life."
On a related note, Lee Wolverton from Olympia is one of several people who have said he won't watch if players take a knee during the anthem, saying, "if the players need to protest, then do it in another less offensive way."
A: We touched on this topic in the last mailbag, but I'm happy to keep answering it as long as I need to in order to say this, even if it only gets through to one more person:
Kneeling during the anthem isn't about disrespecting the flag or the country or the military. Seriously, it isn't. It's about bringing attention to racism and police brutality. And yes, it might be uncomfortable for some, but that's the point of a protest. As Doug Baldwin noted in 2017, this country was founded on protest. If players quietly kneeled before the anthem or at some other less visible time, their message wouldn't be heard as well, and it's an incredibly important message. Protesting during the anthem is anything but un-American. How is it un-American to exercise your first-amendment rights while challenging the country to live up to the ideals that flag stands for, and to do so for all Americans, including Black people who have faced systemic racism for longer than America has been a country.
I promise you once the game starts football will be the same distraction you're looking for whether or not players kneel, but to ask players to ignore what's happening in the world just because they happen to play a sport that entertains you is insulting to their humanity. And that "discord and division" you're seeing in sports? It's a reflection of the discord and division Black people—who make up the majority of NFL players—have seen for their entire lives. Players understand that they have a platform, and now more than ever they're trying to use it to make this country a better place for all Americans.
As Baldwin said three years ago after the Seahawks decided to stay in the locker room during the anthem prior to their game in Tennessee, "I'm calling on people in our country to realize this is greater than just football, this is greater than just your Sunday evening entertainment. It's bigger than that.
"I want to make sure you all understand that I'm not speaking for everybody in our locker room. I'm speaking from heart personally. These are my thoughts: it's scary that we have a man in office who was elected to protect our basic rights, and yet he has shown recently the opposite… For us as players, directly being called out about not being able to express ourselves—and many men and women have sacrificed their lives for us to be able to express ourselves in that way, that's the foundational core of who we are as a country—and for that to be threatened by the man who is at the head of the table for our country, it's a very serious thing. I hope that that message is loud and clear for anybody who is listening, that they recognize that this is a dangerous time, and we recognize that.
"We're hoping to unite people of all colors, all races, all religions, all beliefs to come together and realize the severity of the situation. This is our country, what we were founded on was a protest—the Boston Tea Party, that was a protest. I think there's something to be said to make sure that we protect the sanctity and the importance of individuals in this country being able to express themselves. And I understand it's a difficult topic to talk about, I understand that we all have our different opinions, we all have our different viewpoints, but that's what makes our country so great. That's what makes our country unique and beautiful, that's why we are where we are, because we don't always agree. Just getting 63 guys to all agree to do something, that's difficult within itself, so I can understand how difficult it is for the country. But sometimes I feel like there's a line that needs to be drawn, and to me the most important thing we can do at this moment is be unified, and not just as a football team, or as the NFL or as a city, as a red state, blue state, but as a country, as a society. Because again, the severity of this situation cannot be understated."
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