Quote Originally Posted by Phantom Warrior View Post
What would they do? Suspend the players? No way.

The backlash from a majority of the teams' fans would be enormous.

On top of that, I think that if an owner suspended or fined even one player, no matter who it was, the other players on the team would then kneel or whatever in support of their teammate. Then what would the owner do? Suspend the entire team? Cancel games? No way, Jose.
It would be the league that would dole out the penalties, if any, not the team owners. Would they? I doubt it as Markedman said above. One caveat to that, though, is gauging the fallout (if any) to the NFL from the fans. Money drives both leagues and if they took action, it would likely be due to concerns about losing the fans.

Right now you see the NFL, it's teams, owners and players in crisis management mode over last weekends actions. The NBA is watching and will have the luxury of seeing how this plays out first.