NATIONWIDE — All eyes are on the NFL. That's the way it is most Sundays in the fall, but this past Sunday, the game of football took a backseat to politics.

Over the weekend we saw reaction from athletes, coaches and owners across the league and even NBA stars — all in response to a speech President Trump made Friday night in Huntsville, Alabama, where he used a profanity to describe NFL players who kneel during the national anthem.

He then tweeted that players who do so should be fired or suspended.

On Sunday, in the 14 NFL games all across the country and even overseas in London, there were many different reactions.

We saw hundreds of players and owners stand together and lock arms to show unity, others took a knee. Then there were the entire Steelers, Titans and Seahawks teams who didn't take the field at all for the anthem.

This all began last season when Colin Kaepernick — then the 49ers quarterback — took a knee during the anthem protesting police brutality and racial inequities across the country. He has since been released from the team and is still a free agent, but Monday  morning, many are deeming him Sunday's biggest winner.

NFL is not the only league being affected. This past weekend in baseball, an Oakland A's catcher took a knee as well as an entire high school football team in Seattle. And also Sunday, before the Falcons-Lions game in Detroit, Rico LaVelle who sang the anthem before the game took a knee at the end of it.

A statement was circling on social media saying pages A62 & 63 of the NFL Rulebook states that the national anthem must be played before every game and that players must be on the sideline for the national anthem. But those pages in the 2017 official rulebook actually have information about enforcing fouls.

The only rule relevant to the issue is under Article 8:

Throughout the period on game-day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience, (including in pregame warm-ups...players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the League office.

All eyes will be on America's team as the Cowboys take the field on the biggest stage in the sport.