Here’s how Texans players protested Bob McNair’s inmates statement (Photo)

The Houston Texans planned a protest on Sunday afternoon to push back against comments made by owner Bob McNair.

One of the biggest storylines heading into this weekend’s slate of NFL games was sparked by a rich white guy spouting off half-baked thoughts. It’s not the first time this has happened this season, it’s the first time it wasn’t the president.

It was revealed this week that Houston Texans owner Bob McNair said, in response to players protesting, that inmates can’t be allowed to run the prison. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well with the so-called inmates on McNair’s roster, and a protest was almost immediately thrown into the works.

As expected, the Texans team protested during the national anthem as a way of peacefully throwing up the double bird to owner Bob McNair.

This was to be expected and considering the things the team was rumored to be doing it was relatively tame. Houston was reported to be considering things as bold as tearing the decals off their helmets in a show of unity.

To be clear, not every member of the Texans took a knee. It’s unclear how this will go over with players who were looking for their teammates to have their backs in this moment, but time will tell. Hopefully, this isn’t the type of thing that derails Houston’s season but maybe that’s something that is needed to get more dialogue started around the topic of protests.

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This has been a storyline all year long and it’s clearly not going anywhere.