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Dolphins teammates Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson were the only two players to kneel during the national anthem on the NFL’s opening Sunday Sheldrick Redwine Jersey , and Kaepernick, who is no longer welcome on an NFL sideline, made sure to offer his thanks to them via social media .“My Brothers (Stills) and (Wilson) continue to show their unwavering strength by fighting for the oppressed,” Kapernick said in his tweet. “They have not backed down, even when attacked and intimidated. … Love is at the root of our resistance.”It was Kaepernick, then with the 49ers, who sparked the anthem controversy by kneeling during the pregame ritual in 2016 — his way of protesting police brutality and social injustice in America.Since opting out of his contract after that season, Kaepernick has been unable to land a job with an NFL team and is suing the league for collusion.But his voice is still being heard. Last week, Nike introduced an ad featuring the quarterback and his message: “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”On Sunday, Kaepernick’s message got through to his friends in Miami.“I know he has our back,” Stills said. “Really Kaleb McGary Jersey , there has been a huge difference between when we first started protesting and now. A lot of people are reaching out and supporting us, so I really appreciate that. To everybody out there … let’s keep doing our best to make positive change and have these conversations and make our country a better place.”While Stills and Wilson were kneeling during the anthem, teammate Robert Quinn raised his fist. Niners receiver Marquise Goodwin did the same at San Francisco’s game at Minnesota. In Los Angeles, Chargers left tackle Russell Okung raised his fist. Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas and linebacker Brandon Marshall, and Seahawks linemen Duane Brown and Quinton Jefferson, retreated to their respective tunnels while the anthem played.At the peak of the anthem protests, as many as 200 players would partake. On most weeks last year, the Seahawks led the way with the most players doing something to make a statement. Though that number had fallen to 2 to start 2018, Brown wasn’t worried.“I made my decision. That was my decision,” he said. “I wasn’t paying attention to see what other teams or other players are doing.”The NFL briefly had a policy in place in May regarding the anthem, but rescinded it after the players union filed a grievance, which sent the league to the negotiating table with the union. Those talks are ongoing. Brown said he hasn’t heard any word from the union dissuading player protests during the anthem.“I don’t think that would be the best idea to try to get people to move on from it Kendall Sheffield Jersey ,” he said. “The country hasn’t moved on from it, so I’m not going to move on from it, either.”Among those keeping the issue front and center is President Donald Trump, who sent a tweet of his own several hours before Kaepernick’s, taking digs at the NFL, and linking low ratings for Thursday night’s opener between Atlanta and Philadelphia (lowest for an opener since 2008) to players who refuse to stand for the anthem.“If the players stood proudly for our Flag and Anthem, and it is all shown on broadcast, maybe ratings could come back? Otherwise worse!” he tweeted.CBS and Fox, which carried Sunday afternoon’s games, have said they did not plan on televising the anthem.However, NBC did show the anthem on Thursday night (but not before Sunday night’s Bears-Packers game), and no players kneeled or protested in other ways.That included Malcolm Jenkins of the Eagles John Cominsky Jersey , who raised his fist during the anthem last season but did not for the opener. During pregame warmups, he wore a shirt that read “Ca$h bail = poverty trap.”Jenkins, a founder of the Players Coalition which was formed to tackle issues similar to those Kaepernick is concerned about, said he would like to move the focus away from the anthem.“I think there’s a huge need for us to turn the attention to not only the issues, but what players are actually doing in their communities to promote change,” he said. “We’re trying to move past the rhetoric of what’s right or what’s wrong in terms of the anthem, and really focus on the systematic issues that are plaguing our communities.” In 1989, the Dallas Cowboys selected Troy Aikman, the 23-year old college QB who attended both the University of Oklahoma and UCLA, with the first overall pick of the NFL draft. He was named their starting QB before the season began and got his first career start on September 9th, 1989 against the New Orleans Saints in the Louisiana Superdome.It was not a pretty game for Aikman, or the Cowboys for that matter Qadree Ollison Jersey , and he ended up going 17-for-35, 180 yards, and two interceptions in a 28-0 loss. He would start eleven games that year, going 0-11 with 1,749 passing yards, nine touchdowns, and 18 interceptions. It was not very pretty for the rookie but it would be the last time he struggled so badly and by 1992, he led the Dallas Cowboys to Super Bowl XXVII, the team's sixth ever appearance.They were matched up against the AFC champion Buffalo Bills, who were making their third consecutive Super Bowl appearance, tying the Miami Dolphins for most consecutive Super Bowls. But after losing the previous two Super Bowls, the pressure for the Bills to win this one was extremely high. They finished the regular season with an 11-5 record and due to tiebreakers Ed Oliver Jersey , ended up making the playoffs as a wild card team.This was the year the Bills staged the greatest comeback in NFL playoffs history when they faced the Houston Oilers in the Wild Card round. The game got out of control and the Bills ended up trailing the Oilers 35-3 midway through the third quarter until the Bills scored five consecutive touchdowns to take the lead before eventually winning in OT thanks to a clutch 32-yard field goal by Steve Christie.After that amazing comeback, the Bills would easily defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins by a combined score of 53-13. It looked as though the Bills offense was back and that Super Bowl XXVII was going to be a classic.Thurman Thomas scored the first touchdown of the game which gave the Bills their only lead of the entire night. By halftime, it was 28-10 and the Bills had turned the ball over five times, three picks and two fumbles.The halftime show was quite possibly the best one ever, featuring Michael Jackson performing by himself. It was one of the only times the Super Bowl television audience increased during halftime and it remains one of the most watched broadcasts ever.As the second half began, it was quickly looking like the only team to show up for the Super Bowl was the Dallas Cowboys and they easily ran away with the game scoring 24 more points to finish the Bills off and win 52-17.Let's take a look back at the 15 best members of the Dallas Cowboys from that Super Bowl and see what they are up to today.