NFL to play Black national anthem before all major 2021 games, events: Report

The Washington Times ^ | July 15, 2021 | Victor Morton

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NFL to play Black national anthem before all major 2021 games, events: Report

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.

[dfwgator]

As others here have noted, the problem is putting it up as some sort of alternative anthem. That’s a serious blunder, to say the least.

It will eventually replace the Star Spangled Banner. These things happen in stages.

[bdfromlv]

Add “Singing in the Rain” as the white national anthem and “la Cucaracha” for the HispanX people, should be quite a show.

[DoughtyOne]

The NFL officials should all be Black.

Linesmen should be blank.

All concessions should be owned, staffed, and managed by Blacks.

All team names should start with, “The All Black...”

I think all field lines, goal posts, and footballs should be
black.

All field uniforms should be black too.

All coaches and staff should be black. All owners should be
black. All advertising should be paid for by Whites, but
only promoting purchases from Black owned businesses.

All profits should be cut in half, and that 50% of profits
be paid to Blacks across the nation.

Come on NFL, get with the program.

[dfwgator]

All team names should start with, “The All Black...”

Already taken....

[DoughtyOne]

d":^)

[MayflowerMadam]

Doo-dah. Doo-dah.