These NFL (aka, the pro football arm of BLM) players just don’t live in the real world and have a wildly exaggerated notion of their own importance, along with bunches of other athletes across most sports. Last Thursday night, at the first game of the NFL season, “[a]fter the Houston Texans remained in the locker room during the national anthem, fans booed them when they emerged from the tunnel at its conclusion. The booing continued as the two teams walked to midfield and shook hands, their interlocked arms stretched from one end zone to the other during what was supposed to be a moment of silence.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/chiefs-texans-booed-as-racial-justice-stand-sparks-outrage/ar-BB18X2jN?ocid=msedgntp
Chiefs and Texans players, and other teams’ players, afterwards were quoted as saying booing in that situation was “unbelievable”, “surprising” and some didn’t quite “understand it.” Kansas City players even stood for a “presentation on racial justice” before the game. Moreover, at every NFL game this year the league plans to play the so-called “black national anthem,” whatever the heck that is. Who has authorized there to be a black national anthem at all isn’t exactly clear, but the newly-woke NFL is certainly bending over backwards in its attempts to appease the woke mob. On every playing field, one endzone says “End Racism” while the other reads “It Takes All Of Us.” And there is a whole bunch of phrases and names of alleged racist police brutality victims the league has OK’d players to put on their helmets and uniforms.
And there’s some surprise among players that fans booed? C’mon. It isn’t rocket science and it has nothing to do with racism. First, for the Texans to hide in the locker room during the National Anthem was just cowardly, so they deserved booing just for that.
But second, and far more important, if you paid hundreds if not thousands of dollars of your hard-earned post-tax income to get tickets to these games, and are willing to put up with the hassles of getting there, traffic and parking, etc., and you’re willing to pay the crazy prices for food and drink, do you want the NFL’s newly-woke politics shoved down your throat like it’s what you paid to see and you should be enjoying it? People go to these games, and watch on TV, in large part because they want to escape the real world and the front pages and be distracted. These players are entertainers, and while they can have whatever political views they want off-the-clock, so to speak, and can mouth off all they want outside of the game, they’re getting paid to entertain, not spout about alleged racial injustice or police brutality. So when they’re on the clock, they should just play and worry about using their “platform” later. That doesn’t seem to be a unreasonable position.
Third, these players forget who ultimately pays them their over-the-moon kind of money. It is the fans. It is the fans who show up at the games. It is the fans who watch on TV and justify the ridiculous sums the networks pay to carry the games. There’s an old saying these people apparently never heard of, “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”
Finally, it isn’t like this stuff isn’t all over the papers and TV as it is – no one goes to these games so they can be confronted with all the stuff they’re just trying to get away from for a few hours.
Forcing this racial injustice crap on fans – a captive audience, mind you – is not what they paid or came for. And that doesn’t mean anyone is racist, it means only that they want what they paid for without having woke nonsense (or any kind of political crap) shoved down their throats as an additional cost.