Posted on 09/05/2025 2:15:40 AM PDT by C19fan
Singer Laurin Talese's rendition of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' left NFL fans divided ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles' season opener, with many seething over the league's 'DEI' anthem.
The jazz songstress took center stage as the Eagles kick started their Super Bowl title defense in a divisional showdown against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night.
While the song - which has been dubbed the Black National Anthem - has become common place in the NFL and has been performed at the Super Bowl and the Draft, the performance in Philadelphia sparked backlash.
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He knows he can do it because this country has an insatiable appetite to be entertained by sports. That’s another reason some college football players are now getting paid 6 and 7 figure incomes.
“Ode to a Reparations Check”.
I used to love watching NFL games. It has now been ten years or so since I’ve watched one. I don’t miss it a bit.
Too bad football fans don’t have the discipline to Bud Lite the NFL.
Before 2015, I watched a little NFL. But when they didn’t rein in Colin Kaepernick, and then showed themselves to be fully woke, my watching went to zero.
Today's namby-pamby press can't even say "negro" without cringing, even though the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was the group which dubbed it so.
FR had a go-around some days back about "colored" so now maybe we can go-around a bit with "negro," a word which is either 1) offensive to those whose history began yesterday, or 2) honorable and with a long history.
The Reparations Anthem was sung during the pre-game show. I was going to give the MFL another chance and watch the Dallas game for the first time in over 40 years. When they brought out the Preparation Song stack of pancakes singer, I was gone. The MFL still hasn’t learned its lesson. Gone for good this time.
NFL is stuck on the horns of a dilemma. They can either cater to the whims of their thug players or their fans. Can they keep coddling the players without losing the fans? I hope not. I would like to see the whole worthless enterprise go down in flames but it won’t. I know that.
UGH, now I can’t stand the Eagles even more.
The Black National Anthem after a black star athlete spits in the face of a black quarterback, such class.
As if I needed another reason to not watch their crap!
None of this "one nation indivisible" stuff for Democrats.
They don’t ‘slam’ anything until they walk out, tune out and disengage. Until then the league is not listening
I had the game “on” without the sound at the time she was singing.
I suspected it wasn’t the national anthem.
I turned on the sound and the sound quality owing to background noise was so bad I couldn’t make out the words.
I thought that kind of funny really.
For the NFL/BLM and NBC, I guess it’s not the presentation that counts but simply the gesture.
The song celebrates the nature of the thoroughbred’s playing the game
They cater to the thugocracy in the NFL because over 50% of the players are black.
And here I thought Pussy Monster by Lil Wayne was their national anthem. Who knew.
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