While there may not even be an NFL this year because of COVID-19 and big, bad players being afraid of it, the NFL is still in consideration of doing more things to appease Marxist Black Lives Matter. Reports are circulating that the NFL, if they have games this year will no longer have on the field anthem singers. The NFL will also reportedly ban military/police honor guards who typically are on the field during the playing of the national anthem.
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Many have speculated that television audiences will watch NFL players kneel in protest this season while the anthem singers sing and the colors are presented by military or police honor guards.
Well, it now appears as though television viewers will only see protesters.
According to a report Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports, part of the NFL’s coronavirus mitigation strategy will be to not have on-field anthem singers this year, and the use military/police honor guards could be curtailed as well.
“This year will be different due to COVID concerns. They want to limit the number of people around the players on the field,” a source to Front Office Sports said.
The NFL did not respond to a FOS request for comment.
So, to recap, the NFL will allow hundreds of their players to hit and tackle each other in (obviously) close proximity. In addition they will allow those players to travel and live together as they play the season. However, someone standing by themselves in the middle of the field singing the anthem with no one within ten feet of them, is apparently a bridge too far.
Other offseason changes that viewers can expect to see this season, in addition to the reported removal of any semblance of patriotism from the football field, include:
social justice messages stenciled on the field
social justice helmet decals on the football field
and the song, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black national anthem, sung prior to each Week 1 game (presumably a recording and not a live singer given the league’s apparent anthem stance, but at this point, who knows?)