Posted on 02/08/2025 3:09:14 PM PST by lasereye
"Real Time" host Bill Maher welcomed the NFL's decision to pull its "end racism" message from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl LIX, insisting it was "stupid to begin with."
The words "End Racism," which were previously featured in the 2021 Super Bowl and this year's NFC Championship Game, will not be featured Sunday as the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Philadelphia Eagles, the NFL announced this week.
During a panel discussion Friday night, Maher suggested President Trump, who is expected to attend Super Bowl LIX, was "making" the NFL remove the slogan from the field.
"But why?" Puck News' Tara Palmeri reacted. "It just seems silly."
"To do it or not to do it?" Maher asked.
"Why get rid of it?" Palmeri pressed.
"Oh, I could tell you why," Maher shot back, sparking laughs from the audience. "Because it was stupid to begin with."
"Let me ask you who is it for?" he continued. "If you're a racist and you see ‘end racism’ in the end zone, you're gonna stop being a racist?"
"But the sentiment is basically ‘don’t be an a--h---," Palmeri responded.
"But I think it's an a--h--- to nag us during the football game about something that doesn't change anything or any- if I'm not a racist and I see it, it doesn't matter. And if I am a racist, it's just gonna make me more of a racist."
"I think if you write, 'Don't be an a--h---' in the end zone, everybody will agree with that," Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., chimed in.
"The problem is we all think the other guy is an a--h---!" Maher chuckled.
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They should be forced to leave it there forever - no covering up their crimes.
Is he coming over to our side?
Still on the helmet pads in the back? Besides, who knew it was that simple.
Most players black. Most fans white.
And they cry racism….
He’s said too much to make me ever like him...unless he outright apologized for all these years.
But he is VERY out of touch with the dem message these days.
He’s not for Israelis being target practice. He’s not for the gender nonsense and in general, he hates the “woke” culture. he doesn’t like snowflakes. He HATES the anti Jewish protests on campuses.
He’ll either change some minds or lose some fans.
And he’s actually has said “Trump’s right” about a few things.
Things are bad when Maher is complaining about the dems’ main talking points.
Maher is on whichever side pays him the most. Since the winds are blowing "right"...
End the NFL.
I am seriously tired of all the organizations/corporations feeling they need virtue signal.
Give me the best price.
The best new features.
The highest specs/performance.
The highest quality build and components.
The best warranty.
Excellent customer support.
Stop trying to sell me a $6.36 cup of coffee that is really just so-so in taste and justify that nonsense with the idea that your business supports LGBTQIA+ and has unisex bathrooms with piss all over the toilet seats because guys like to relieve themselves standing.
It’s far too late for them to regain me as a fan. They can say whatever they want. I just wish my sons didn’t have to inherit a world filled with ridiculous, self-righteous pr&cks.
One thing I’ve discovered in The Savannah Bananas, their games are on their YouTube channel. It’s just so fun to watch, and they clearly are for the fans.
Just good luck trying to get a ticket to their games, they are coming here in September and I wanted to get tickets, but they basically said to try again next year.
As they cash their outlandish paychecks.
I think you’ll have to do what DOGE is doing to get what you want.
The US economy is a train-wreck because the government wants it that way.
It WAS stupid to begin with, but then again, so was Bill Maher.
Odd is it not that most of the players on that field were black. They were selected based on merit. They were and are damn good athletes. They deserved to play on those fields.
Change “End Racism” to “Fire Goodell.”
I remember when he hosted the curiously named television show, "Politically Incorrect," He would espouse politically correct points of view in in such a way as to further the left-wing narrative view of conservatives, and would do so in a vulgar manner, apparently defining political incorrectness as "crapping on conservatives with naughty language."
The whole post Georgie Floyd nonsense should be removed. “It takes all of us”. Stop the Hate”
Sure, that’s gonna happen. Of course, never a mention of crime.
And georgie was such a role model to begin with right up there with King Rodney and Trayvon Skittles.
Amen, bro. The message in the end zones should read, “Officiate Impartially”.
“CHEFS” in one endzone and “ELGSES” in the other endzone. This is supposed to be a football game, isn’t it?
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