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The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump would be attending the game.

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[–] [email protected] 265 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, the NFL did it. They ended racism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

Didn't they just end "ending racism"?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I, for one, have found racism considerably less appealing since reading this sideways in endzones. Thanks NFL for making me not a bigot anymore. I think blacks are probably fine now.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Of course this was not about to end racism, but building safe space to not trigger the racists is encouraging them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Would be more honest had they only removed 'End'

[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Legit question. What happens if every single black player just REFUSES to play at the superbowl?

Like, lets say you get opening kickoff, and it's a white guy kicker. So he kicks the ball. It lands at about the 15 yard line. And just NOBODY even attempts anything. They all just stand there, pointing at the endzones.

And it's both teams. I don't know exact numbers, but I'd guess every teams roster is 90%+ black.

And since it's both teams, you can't call one side a forfeit.

I think they should. Embarass the NFL on the biggest stage. The game is Feb 9th. This would be the lead story Feb 10th. They either repaint it back onto the endzones DURING the game, reschedule the game, or the whole game is 0-0, with a clock running down for 3 hours.

What would the NFL do?

[–] Mouselemming 74 points 1 day ago

Every single ~~Black~~ player. They're a team, and I'm willing to believe they respect each other enough to stand still for each other.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Fire all black people and somehow fault them for the whole thing.

At least if the rest of the country does not show solidarity and doesn't organize a general strike - which is illegal by the way.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fire every black person in the NFL??? Hooooooooboy.

2026 headline. "NFL viewership falls to 3. As in there are now 3 people still watching."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Point taken.

Just don't pay them, get them arrested and lease them back from the prisons. Slavery is legal in the US after all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Pretty sure Adam Sandler produced a documentary about that years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Hire all white people and the trump Nazis are perfectly happy?

[–] AlecSadler 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This would be fucking awesome.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

So awesome it'll never happen, but it'd make a great scene for Remember the Titans 2.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Oh, America.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think people are reading too much into this. They're changing it to 'Choose Love,' as an obvious shot at the orange-haired man who's never gotten a hug.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I just love Today combining the two events (changing it; 1st prez to go) to make it obvious why.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't want the snowflakes feeling bad about their natural tendencies, would we?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Interested to see if Kendrick is gonna have ANYTHING to say about the state of things at his performance at the halftime show.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's literally the only thing I'm tuning in for

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 hours ago

The problem is that most "anti racism" campaigns are just low ganging "white men bad" bullshit. They don't actually tackle the source of racism or actually do anything to help minorities, since that would cost actual money.

So they just attack white men, which alienates working class people because they are getting fucked by the system just like the rest of us schmoes.

In reality it's another way to divide the working class against each other, because Cletus from Alabama is getting fucked just like Wayne from the Bronx, but they are both being pitted against each other by the ultra rich and mega corps.

The right latches onto the anger of Cletus and tells him it's all Wayne's fault the left rushes to the side of Wayne and tells him Cletus is a racist piece of shit that needs to be knocked down a peg.

Meanwhile, Chad is siphoning both their 401ks and laughing his ass off from his mansion.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Stupid article with irritating title. They're just changing it to Choose Love, which apparently was one of the other messages used this season.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that the love between a man or a woman or the love of a man for a fine Cuban cigar?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I think the point is more that they are changing it to appease the great big orange convicted criminal who is currently gutting our government and destroying affirmative action in the name of "efficiency" with a literal Nazi at the helm of that effort.

But hey, it's only a nationally televised sporting event so who cares. 😒

Fuck the NFL. I honestly hope people torch the Superbowl over this and FuckwADUS attending like Nero in the colosseum.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

"Choose Love" sounds a lot like the message that pastor had at his inauguration. Point being, he's likely to be offended by that as well.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

…in case you were curious if it performative in the first place…

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Responding to the collective movement of 2020 with endzone prints was a bad look. Removing them is an even worse look. It's like when google changed their slogan from "Don't be evil"

Yeah we all knew they were evil before, but when they stopped claiming to not be evil they got worse.

Well. This is that for the NFL. They did almost nothing to help their players and fans, and now they're doing even less.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

More of a meta comment, but are all organisations stuck with their slogans forever?

NFL rotates these messages and this game it moves from "End racism" to "Choose love". Next it will rotate again and people will be upset they removed the "Choose love" slogan because they are anti-LGBT?

Google changes their motto from "Don't be evil" to "Do the right thing" and everyone is upset. One day they will change it again and everyone will be upset because of course they are not doing the right thing anymore?

Both NFL and Google are evil and deserve no sympathy, but I wonder what's the expectation here? Never change any slogan?

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