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me NIGHT It was just the beginning of the season in national sports that Donald Trump would not see. All the stars gathered in the field of arm for social change,
Amid revelations about Trump’s disregard for weak soldiers and private games with the coronavirus, this searing, silent protest ahead of the first league game announced what to expect from popular football:
- The national sport itself opposes the racism that Trump claims doesn’t exist.
Three years ago, the football leadership followed the president’s demand that respect for the national anthem and flag should prevail over political brands.
Now the recent police violence has changed everything. The once-conservative leaders of the National Football League (NFL) have announced that from now on they will support the players’ brand against brutal police and social inequality, no matter what these actions are.
HE The opportunity was seized by the reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs to invite guests from the Houston Texans to a united and quiet protest on the field against Trumps America, as the lightweight board displayed seven demands for social change.
Rakner in the field
This surprising action affects Donald Trump’s law-and-order strategy ahead of the November 3 election. If game after game is like this, the great television audience of the NFL will remember again and again the gulf between the president’s boast and the American reality:
- Now all the NFL players are warming up for the game in black jerseys with the legend ‘End racism».
It rhymes badly with the assurance of the incumbent president that there is no systematic racism in his country. At worst for Trump, this striking contrast between the president and soccer heroes affects insecure voters.
Because since last night, American football has chosen sides regardless of whether there were Trump fans at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City who bowed under the players’ silent brand for unity.
OF THE MEN The president has repeatedly said that he doesn’t mind seeing a politicized national sport, the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans players had a joint showdown with Trump’s divided United States. It was a powerful celebration of the change in mood in young America:
– Too much has been said about whether or not you kneel, and very little about what the point of this really is. Namely, social injustice and police brutality.said home team star Patrick Mahomes before the game, adding:
– The most important thing is not the gesture itself, but that we do something. We want a more equal society where everyone can feel so safe that they can only live and care for those around them., highlighted only Mahomes, 24 years old.
In all the talk about the NFL’s political conversion, Patrick Mahomes has always been thoughtful. What happened last night was not a stunt by the highest paid player in the NFL with a new 12-year contract with the Chiefs that earns him just under 5 billion crowns in total. It was a clear response to the challenge of an American society to look in the mirror.
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LATEST Winter won the Super Bowl for the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers. At the time, all the attention on kneeling during the national anthem was directed at the opponent, because the 49ers were Colin Kaepernick’s former club. And because using the biggest soccer games to confront politics didn’t seem vital.
Then there were few knees and quite a few protests in the field for a long time. NFL employers have long been on the sidelines. The long-running conflict with Kaepernick had turned into a collaboration on social projects in which football clubs contributed several hundred million crowns. At the same time, the sport had new figures on the front lines for the fight against racism who did not cooperate so well with the icon Kaepernick.
Then all of a sudden there was a series of new and incomprehensibly brutal police actions against blacks, the biggest soccer stars were enraged, and the NFL management realized they had to radically change their mindset.
Systematic racism was no longer a problem that the American national sport could buy from.
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HE It is this total change this summer that has marked the previous season for the reigning champions Kansas City, and that has made Donald Trump so critical of the NFL.
Soccer’s total turnaround meant the president used his first public meeting in June to strike a deal with the NFL:
– I thought we had won this matchhe said in Tulsa, referring to the brutal fight Trump had with activist symbol Colin Kaerpernick a few years ago:
– Get that motherfucker off the field now, Donald Trump yelled at his supporters at the time.
In Tulsa this summer, the tone was a bit more cautious:
– Where in the world did this NFL game come from in mid-summer? No one has asked for it. We will never kneel under the national anthem or in front of our beautiful American flag. We will be proud and we will be straight.
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MENS Back then, Trump struck a deal without including the biggest sports heroes. He did not see that they had already switched sides. After the murder of George Floyd, star players Patrick Mahomes and Tyrann Mathieu directly joined the video campaign «What if I was George Floyd?»S a Black Lives Matters, and was supported by his coach:
– It’s great that these star players are reactingsaid Andy Reid: The 62-year-old who used to lose the biggest games before leading the Chiefs to victory in the Super Bowl in front of 110 million American viewers for the first time in more than fifty years. But who still had a much broader perspective on coaching work than that?
– I wish everyone had seen in our training how smart and caring all my players are, and how they want to take responsibility in society. That’s a bit of what comes next, promised just before the series’ opening tonight.
FOR This time, most of all, the players wanted to do it in a way that paid maximum attention. That it wasn’t just about who knelt and who stood under the national anthem.
Tyrant Mathieu, who previously played for Houston, was instrumental in the job of doing something with tonight’s opponent precisely to show that there is an entire sport that wants social change in America:
– I am 100% sure that we have the maximum support in the entire football family. If for something we want this match to be remembered, it is precisely because sport is now unitedhe said before the start of the game.
It was then speculated that the teams would remain in the locker room during the national anthem. That selection was chosen only by the Houston guests, before joining the local team program:
– We have been talking too much. This is carefully planned. We do something together for all those who do not have a platform like oursrevealed Patrick Mahomes.
Tonight, he and the other NFL stars have been on that stage, hosting the propaganda show that Donald Trump wouldn’t see at all a month and a half before the presidential election.
Total silence for a new and socially more equal America.
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