The NFL season ends on Sunday and I suspect it will end the way it started: with reminders that we are all racists who need to change our ways. No details will be given. None is ever given.
And I haven’t oppressed a minority since breakfast – damn it, I’m a virtual prisoner since March – I’m tired of it.
It’s all part of the highly mixed, highly selective social and racial messages that were conveyed with the cowardly, pandering and surrendering certification of Roger “The PSL Salesman” Goodell and a chosen blindness to what continues to affect black America.
Scheduled to play at Sunday’s Super Bowl breaks is the popular black animator called The Weeknd. He is unlikely to interpret it – although you never know – but here are the lyrics to one of his numbers, entitled “Ebony”. Looks like it’s a love song. I’ve added changes:
“I think I’ve finally fallen in love now
Her name is Tammy, she has hella puppies
He let me take them out while he was filming …
Man, I love my baby, man, I love my baby
Trust me, trust me, I love my baby
Man, I love my baby, man, I love my baby, trust me, trust me. …
Girl, go and show me how to get down
And I feel my whole body grow
And I’m in anyone with wide legs
I rose above one – one on the West Side
The east coast in a part of the north, never wastes time
Bitch, I’m in my time, damn … a co-sign
Because I’m better than proline, girl, I’m not lying
I had no money for a crib
Now, my room service bill has cost you your whole life
Not an attempt to step on me, I’m going to the military
I’m camouflaged as if I were in the army
Release Jack, I want it to be in February
The perfect time to go out for the album release
But he threw himself at you. “
It is noteworthy that a few weeks ago, when James Brown, a CBS black man who often denies racial discrimination, announced at the CBS NFL pre-game that The Weeknd would be the starter of this Super Bowl, he said Delighted by this news – as did CBS, NFL and NFL Talent and Justice Coordinator Jay-Z. Pepsi is the sponsor and facilitator at the break.
Weeknd has a few clean songs, but many are intended for those born to satisfy their immediate sexual appetite, including a number in which they repeat, “Who will make you like me?” plus other ode with more words N.
But James Brown is delighted with The Weeknd’s choice and bears the stamp of NFL approval – as if Brown and Goodell were demonstrating the courage of their conviction by publicly repeating such lyrics.
And in our crazy world, protesting against the use of the word N means risking condemnation as a deaf racist who doesn’t understand the context – as if he were a good one, as if martyred Martin Luther King Jr. I also just didn’t understand- a.
It remains to be seen whether family entertainment during this year’s Super Bowl will be an improvement over recent extravagances. In 2019, the show at the break included celebrities who were formulated with Ns, kidnappers who degrade women and catch their feet. Last year, Jennifer Lopez’s classless pole dance magazines made her have fun outside of football.
Goodell and the NFL gave him their usual, selective silence.
But remember: fight sexism! Fight racism!
A handful of schools are conquering politics and the NFL
For this year’s Super Bowl test, we turn to reader Hank Ratner, who challenges us to name the five colleagues who produced an American president and a winning Super Bowl defender.
The answers will be in the records of next month’s congress. No, the answers will be where they have been since Gutenberg first launched the press: below.
Coupon code Evan: true or false? A line of gambling has been established for the total number of players to miss this Super Bowl due to COVID-19 restrictions. Too terrible to be true. Ah, but it’s true. It is 1.5.
False, but only so far: Over / Under is 3 times whenever CBS will unnecessarily reduce reporters.
Over / Under in running times and the receivers will first signal down to emphasize that they and no one else had the ball: 3.
Whenever Jim Nantz or Tony Romo will say “move the chains” rather than the first down: 2.5.
Test answers:
Joe Biden, Joe Flacco at the Ravens; Delaware. Benjamin Harrison, Ben Roethlisberger to the Steelers; Miami in Ohio. Gerald Ford, Tom Brady of the Patriots; Michigan. Jimmy Carter, Roger Staubach at the Cowboys; Marine. Herbert Hoover, Jim Plunkett of the Raiders and John Elway of the Broncos; Stanford.
Tough discussion overtaken by coaches
Reader Bill Moniz: “Following the recent immature, semi-consistent divergences of new NFL head coaches … Dan Campbell (Lions) and Nick Siriani (Eagles) make Joe Judge look like a combination of Winston Churchill and Vince Lombardi. ”
According to impeccable sources, a touchdown in Sunday’s Puppy Bowl will end with a beagle marked to achieve a genuine Odell Beckham Jr. in the final zone.
How does an NFL QB know when he made it big? Well, when you type “Roethlisberger”, the computer doesn’t add that red line to alert the spell checker.
I was told that Sunday’s game will be largely determined by at least an extra-long win after the defender tried to destroy the ball carrier, rather than tackle it.
Besides, they both retired last week, after great careers, what do Daniel Murphy and Dustin Pedroia have in common? A: At the beginning of their career, both were completely and expertly rejected by Mike Francesa as totally devoid of MLB talent.
Happy 90’s Larry Merchant, former Post sports columnist and later true, HBO boxing commentator and former Oklahoma third undersized rider fleeing Brooklyn.
Reader Louis Motola admits he took a day of “cargo management” in the NBA. “I walked behind a snow plow.”