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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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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 177 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@sh.itjust.works 75 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.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 103 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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 60 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."

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 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.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This would be fucking awesome.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I'd love them to take a knee at the anthem. I hope someone or many do.

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 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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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 18 hours ago

Would be more honest had they only removed 'End'

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 13 points 23 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.

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[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Oh, America.

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 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.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 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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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 26 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.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day 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.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 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.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 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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