At least one person, former NFL coach Jeff Fisher, is taking the opposite approach.
Instead of publicly calling for more, Fisher believes politics have taken too big a role in sports today.
“Politics is getting into everything right now and it doesn’t need to,” Fisher recently said on OutKick The Tailgate. “The Rivera and Del Rio stuff, I mean come on, give us a break...Leave that stuff alone, there’s too much going on right now.”
But Fisher wasn’t done speaking about the state of politics being involved in sports culture and narratives today.
Asked about the fine Rivera issued to Del Rio following his comments after Wednesday’s practice, Fisher shared his own views on the situation.
“I went down the middle my whole career and I respected everybody for whatever they believed in and everyone should have an opportunity to talk about what they believe in,” Fisher said. “But to create narratives that aren’t true...on first glance, I was a little disappointed with Ron. I was teammates with Ron, and for him to come out, it was like some speech writer wrote his statement. And it’s not true. There were not deaths, like he mentioned...there weren’t deaths, and he put that in his statement...just tell the truth and if you don’t know it then keep your mouth shut.”
Del Rio talked about the riots and buildings being burned; Rivera twisted to say he was wrong to compare peaceful protests to Jan 6. Del Rio NEVER mentioned peaceful protests - Rivera is a snake.