Posted on 09/10/2020 3:44:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Mission, Kansas - Kansas City Chiefs fans who file into Arrowhead Stadium Thursday evening for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season won't be wearing headdresses or face paint amid a nationwide push for racial justice following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The Chiefs will be taking on the Houston Texans.
The move by the reigning Super Bowl champions has pleased Native Americans as a good first step but frustrated some of the 17,000 fans who will be in the stands as the team becomes the first to take the field in front of a crowd - albeit a smaller than normal - during the coronavirus pandemic. Enforcing the new restrictions also comes as the team tries to require masks, which has proven challenging at some public practices. That allows space for social distancing.
NFL teams with Native American mascots are facing increased scrutiny after the team in Washington chose to drop Redskins as its nickname after a long and often contentious dialogue with fans and the public. The Chiefs also announced last month that the team was discussing the future of its tomahawk chop celebration amid complaints that it's racist.
Students at nearby Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, are among those who demanded changes.
"Using this mascot and having this fan base of predominantly white people wearing face paint and headdresses and doing the tomahawk chop, and it energizes them and gives them this sense of power, and then thinking there is nothing wrong with doing that is just mind boggling to me," said William Wilkinson, Haskell's former University Student Government Association president.
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Sounds to me that they want to wipe out all memory of indigenous peoples. They are the worst kinds of racists - not just hating, but destroying cultures.
So, that all assumes there will be any fans.
I don’t feel sorry for the NFL...they brought this upon themselves.
Boycott.
Fans are not wanted anyways. It’s activists they are grooming.
Activists won’t fill the empty seats in their stadiums.
Well, bye.
Current TV contract ends in 2022....with around 250-million paid out to each team, as long as they play actual games.
My guess is that the networks will meet in 2021 and discuss the loss of viewers, and the 4-billion-plus contract of the past will not occur again.
They can survive this season and even next season, with this screwed-up mess, and marginal numbers of fans in the stands. After that....the whole system is shaky.
Just make diverse, politically correct cardboard cutout fans....like baseball.
There was a show on the Science Channel last night about the new stadium in LA. New home of the Chargers and the Rams. $2 + billion dollars with a capacity of 70,000 “fans”. Going to be a problem paying for that if the current business conditions continue.
What fans?
Yep. Cancel culture at its finest.
then thinking there is nothing wrong with doing that is just mind boggling to me,”
Thats because you are stupid and wasted all that money on your so-called education.
There IS nothing wrong with that.
So what happens if thew few fans that show do the chop anyway? They gonna be scalped in the stands?
My guess is that the networks will meet in 2021 and discuss the loss of viewers, and the 4-billion-plus contract of the past will not occur again.
Networks? I expect some of the streaming services will be bidding, too. My guess is the $4 bilion contract will happen again. Live sports is one of the few programs that gets viewers these days.
Next up they lose the name Chiefs.
Don’t give a shit. Not watching the Negro Football League.
Indeed, please watch and let us know cause I have long stopped watching BLM woke a** sports, and not missing it one bit, period.
BLM ball is dead to me.
What fans? The NFL really is tone deaf!
Just make diverse, politically correct cardboard cutout fans....like baseball.
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That will match the cardboard cutout players and owners.
The NFL now pledges allegiance to BLM and the Woke Mob. Stick a fork in it.
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