This struck home for me when I was watching the beginning of one of this season's football matches (on the computer - not in person). The crowd noise had been artificially layered in (no spectators during Cvd). When the players took the knee, the 'crowd' went silent for 10 seconds, and when the players finished their ritual, the 'crowd' burst out in a round of applause.

It was like the scene in Escape to Victory, when the Nazis play a team of POWs.