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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 164 points 18 hours ago (8 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 73 points 17 hours 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 99 points 18 hours ago (3 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 55 points 18 hours 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 26 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Why are people talking about a general strike in the USA? Surely you must realise everyone is too busy keeping their heads above water.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Why are people talking about a general strike in the USA? Surely you must realise everyone is too busy keeping their heads above water.

As opposed to the other general strikes done in times of plenty and happiness?

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Our healthcare is tied to our work here in America. Losing that kind of safety net is scary, especially when you will be beaten by police for protesting, and now you need to go to the hospital.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The French understand the concept of worker solidarity though.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 21 points 17 hours ago

General strikes usually happen when people realize that they won't be able to keep doing that.

[–] tortina_original@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What the fuck? No wonder Trump is doing whatever the fuck he wants, Americans are too busy thinking about losing some of the comfort if they try raising their voice.

General strike and massive protests should have happened days ago.

It is beyond surreal that he is just face fucking everyone right now, and noone is doing anything. Because they are worried about losing their comfort.

Just wait a bit longer and you won't have any comfort left anyway.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Have you ever watched Rollerball (1975)?

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 28 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This would be fucking awesome.

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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

They shouldn't be so political!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 49 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

I'm glad to see you bought a copy of my book! Would you like me to sign it for you?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago

As the literal president who started the whole thing sits in the stands. Hopefully getting boo'd.

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 127 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Not sure I understand the point of the NFL with these anti racism sayings.

Like is there anyone racist out there that reads these and changes their mind?

That’s not how racism works at all.

NFL can continue doing what they want I just don’t see the purpose.

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[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 67 points 19 hours ago (2 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 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago
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[–] aaron@lemm.ee 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He'll call Drake a racist and the crowd will go wild. That's the state of things.

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

If that's all that happens, I'm not sure how I'll feel about him going forward. Isn't he meant to be the thinking man's rapper? Kind of an educated leftist type? For him to accept a Superbowl halftime show and not be planning ANYTHING would make so much of his work and messaging become hollow to me.

On the other hand, idk what he would even do besides saying 'fuck Trump'. That would be the weakest, most watered down shit, but you're 100% right, that's the state of things.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 36 points 18 hours 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.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 9 points 13 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.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours 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.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 32 points 17 hours 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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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 24 points 18 hours 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.

Racism is over, brought to you by Bud Light

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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago
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