Some of me kept a little hope that “woke up” was dead when I caught the advertisement: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.” It yielded a smart pushback to those who have been telling us for years what we should think and see and say -and call us racist or another –ism if we disagree. But I knew that this advertisement, despite its millions of views, would not be enough.
I recently read that the National Football League (NFL) is dead to wake up – as if we have dumped Jesse Jackson’s “Keep Hope Alive” for “Keep Woked Woked”. All 32 teams must stencil one of the following four “social justice” messages in their end zones: “end racism”, “Choose Love”, “Inspire change” and “Stop Hate”. “It all takes” will be the message in the opponents zone.
Do you remember the NFL of the 1980s? The pure dominance of the 49ers guided by Joe Montana? The Sweetness of the Bears’ Walter Payton and the Wildness of Jim McMahon? Lawrence Taylor flies around the corner for the Giants? And Bo Jackson who wears the boz to the end zone for millions on Monday evening?
File – San Francisco 49ers Qb Joe Montana (16) Before his team was a match against the Minnesota Vikings in San Francisco, California. (Mickey Pfleger/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)
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Can you tell me one of the politics of the players? Probably not. Sport was sport and we looked at to be inspired by the great athletics that most of us could dream of alone. Yet that greatness relieved a fire among our asses, making us harder from day to day to be the best we could be.
Jump to the years 2010. There was a lot of great football to remember. But it was affected by the meaningless kneeling protests led by Colin Kaepernick of the 49 people and others. They changed press conferences in referenda about the police, and they were not shy about promoting the claim that the police killed black people every day. They approached politically everywhere in the competition and it turned out to other sports.
Colin Kaepernick wants to make a pass during a private -NFL training on Charles R. Drew High School on November 16, 2019, in Riverdale, Georgia. (Carmen Mandato/Getty images)
The low point came in 2021, when Kaepernick made horror of a show for Netflix, “Colin in Black and White”, in which he equipped the NFL design with slavery. The hypocrisy was incomprehensible.
Here was a quarterback of several millions of dollars that grew up in the suburbs of California, dressed in a faux black power suit with a ridiculous Afro, who told us that football was modern slavery. I have never seen a white person who insults my ancestors more than this biracial man.
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Then George Floyd was killed and the issue blew up. The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, took a knee and apologized for it not more serious to take charlatans like Kaepernick. The NFL has committed millions of dollars in the name of Floyd to tackle systemic racism.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell focuses on the NFL -annual League meeting on the Breakers on April 1, 2025. (Jim Rassol imagn images)
How should we take it differently than that the NFL believes that the American police are racist and that we, the American people, are also racist?
But where is the straight truth in this mess?
That is why the newest virtue signaling of the NFL is ridiculous. It was born of lies. We Americans have had enough of this gas light and it is time for us to return to the purity of sport.
The NFL was one of the best in and if it can return to that greatness – where Americans of all colors compete on the gridiron of merit – will do much more to promote the good within our society. It will certainly do much more than any bumpersticker slogan.
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We have the worst case of fatigue of virtue signaling. It is time to delete this elitist message for the timeless, smash-mouth football that is viewed by the common man-the hand bladder fans who live on the ground and treat their fellow people and women with respect.
They are the heart of this game.
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