After directing the Packers to observe a moment of silence one day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the NFL allowed the various teams that hosted games to decide how to handle the situation over the balance of the weekend.
During the 13 games played on Sunday, six did and seven did not.
The Dallas Cowboys did. After the overtime win against the Giants, owner Jerry Jones explained his decision.
“ We just all abhor violence ,” Jones said, via Jon Machota of TheAthletic.com. “And it’s impacting us all. And, certainly, we all stand together on any front, relative to the threat of violence. . . . I was a young guy, but aware, in the ‘60s when we had huge violence, lost President Kennedy and his brother and many, many others, Martin Luther King. It’s something that we all really n