"Racial issues are often virtue-signaled in the NFL — but almost never in an honest way. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees recently objected to players not honoring the flag. But he quickly caved when a media mob damned him. In contrast, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson posted a series of anti-Semitic tweets last week, even falsely attributing a quote to Adolf Hitler. That disconnect posed a bizarre question for the NFL: Is it worse for a player to be pro–American flag or anti-Semitic?
NFL owners and head coaches are almost all white. But nearly three-quarters of the players are black. Those who play the game obviously want to see more diversity in coaching and ownership.
In a culture so obsessed with identity politics, is it the players or the owners and coaches (or both) who do not “look like America”?
Given that about 13 percent of the U.S. population is black, and given that the Black Lives Matter movement embraces concepts such as proportional representation, today’s NFL teams hardly qualify as diverse. Social activists might argue that the league should mentor and recruit more Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans to better reflect their percentages of our diverse national population.
Perhaps an NFL compromise could ensure that 30 percent of coaches and owners are nonwhite, thus reflecting current U.S. demography. But then, in reciprocity, the players would match such mandatory demographic diversity — leading to Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, whites, and those of mixed ancestry accounting for 87 percent of the player population. The NBA might also take note.'
I think that the estimable Dr. Hanson is incorrect. The NFL has Thelma and Lousied it over the cliff. They are long past the point of no return. They are not just Anti-American they are Anti-white. They have spit in the face of the majority of their fans. The league is full of felons and criminals who are indulged because of their animal athletic ability. The top New York Giant player was just arrested for armed robbery. Domestic violence is on the rap sheets of half of the league. Instead of weeding out the criminals the leauge endorses and encoruages them.
I have given up on them long ago when the kneeling started. More and more Americans are waking up to their bias and hatred of us the majority of their fans. The momentum of what had gone before might carry on for a while still. But many of their former fans will no longer bring their kids into the realm of fandom.
This has happened before. At one time boxing, baseball and horse racing were the three biggest sports in America. When boxing became a black sport followed by a white fandom it declined a great deal and only certain spectacular champions brought a modicum of popularity. Now it is as dead as Murphy's dick. They make some money here and there but nothing like it used to be. This is footballs future.
Victor Davis Hanson is wrong. Football has already fallen into the abyss.
