Posted on 07/16/2021 4:55:17 PM PDT by ebb tide
The NFL reportedly plans to play the so-called Black national anthem before all its major events in the upcoming season.
As part of a doubling down on its politicking from last season, America’s biggest professional sports league will play “Lift Every Voice And Sing” before all “tentpole events,” according to a report in Front Office Sports.
The site reported, citing unnamed league sources, that those high-profile events will include the NFL Kickoff Game on Sept. 9, all playoff games including the Super Bowl, and the league’s college draft.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” will not replace the national anthem, but instead be played in addition to it, according to the report.
However, those tentpole events are usually the only ones in which “The Star-Spangled Banner” makes it onto the TV broadcasts.
Meaning that every time the league pipes the national anthem into America’s homes this season, it’ll be accompanied by “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” Front Office Sports explained.
This leaning in on political demands in a politically polarized nation stands in contrast to most other major professional sports leagues, even the NBA, which is removing most of the on-floor social slogans.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I’ll bet viewership will be down as well.
Yes, it's intentional.
They're NOT trying to 'fix' anything - they're going for the results YOU outlined.
Here's a flash: when Soros puts prosecutors in office who put criminals back on the street before their victims are out of the hospital - HE KNOWS IT WILL CAUSE CRIME TO GO UP.
When commies called to 'defund' the police they knew crime would go up.
They are intentionally destabilizing the country.
well it establishes national division by race
We do NOT have two national anthems
Thats exactly the idea being pushed here
They want it to get to the point they only play the other tune under more and more conditions and events and skip playing the actual national anthem
This is all done on purpose
I agree. They need the black voting block, but they’re not willing to improve lives, like Trump was. This hatred and suspicion jaw jacking is the best they can do.
I think I agree with everything you are saying except I don’t think people will remember this “anthem” a year from now. It came from nowhere and it is going nowhere. It’s as fake as everything else the Democrats offer the blacks or anyone.
Wait ‘till the blacks in the NFL see the money dry up. Then see what anthem they sing.
Which makes blacks seem like they are NOT Americans like the rest of us.
When I told my husband about this, he inquired as to what the black national anthem was... Sincerely asking me if I was referring to the DMX song “up in here” and informing me they always play that at football games 😂🤣😂🤣 I cannot stop laughing!!!
I think we should play the national anthem of the country that each player on both teams was born in or descended from. Then, after we play a couple of dozen national anthems and the “black” anthem, we will have had our cultural enrichment and can go home.
Its a big deal in the black community
More in some circles than others, more southern
But the fact is because its pushed more and more as something impotant as part of being black, it will begin to be regarded by the entire black community as important and a black thing, and not to be for it will be racit and anti-black
Mark it
It wil remain because it is another exploited wedge issue
I almost wish I hadn’t already totally given up on the NFL when they went along with the kneeling so I could give up on football now because of this idiotic decision.
“NFL to play Black national anthem before all major 2021 games, events: Report”
they can play it after every kickoff, punt, field goal and first down conversion if they want to, but i won’t be hearing it a single time ...
What about the Hispanic National Anthem?
NFL not PLAY NATIONAL ANTHEM...then play in other country dudes! Same to NBA and all other privileged sports players!
And then, the nba / wnba will follow, then mlb, then the nhl, then mls, then ( mot necessarily in that order )
Last week the NFL announced that their league is “gay and trans.” This week they announce that the BNA will be a permanent fixture. Will white people be allowed to sing it, or would that be considered “cultural appropriation” and racist / imperialist / colonialist? And if whitey is allowed, the same question holds for urban yodeling the song. Would it be verboten, or mandatory?
Their reaction to plummeting ratings is curious, wouldn’t you say? It’s as if they have a special committee tasked with coming up with ever-increasing ways to insult their core viewers. Or maybe they figure this is a good way to attract woke Gens Z and Alpha?
And just as Juneteenth will replace Independence Day, the BNA will replace the Star Spangled Banner.
It won’t be piped into my home.
Back to football, it is getting to the point that the NFL will draft Rupaul to play fullback for the Raiders. Now if all of you good ol’ boys wake up and stop buying SEC merch we can get these crybabies to pay attention to the rest of us.
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