Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., said Sunday a planned boycott of the NFL in honor of Veterans Day was “a great movement,” adding the slew of player protests during the national anthem in recent months “really pisses” him off.

“It’s a great movement,” Mast, a U.S. Army veteran who lost both his legs when he stepped on an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan in 2010, told “Fox and Friends.”

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