The NFL season ends on Sunday, and I suspect it will end the same way it started: with reminders that we are all racists who need to change our habits. No details will be given. None is given.
And having not oppressed a minority since breakfast – hell, I’ve been practically a recluse since March – I’m sick of it.
It is all part of the radically mixed and highly selective social and racial messages that have been conveyed with Roger “The PSL Salesman” Goodell’s cowardly and vain capitulation and blindness to what continues to afflict black America the most.
Scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Super Bowl break, is the popular black artist who calls himself The Weeknd. It is unlikely that he will perform this – although you never know – but here are the letters of one of his numbers, entitled “Ebony”. Apparently, it’s a love song. I added the edits:
“I think I finally fell in love now
Her name is Tammy, she has hella bitches
She let me fuck them while my us filming him …
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 goes’ head and shows me how you go down
And I feel my whole body spike
And I’m f-in ‘anybody with wide legs
Made me taller than one – one from the West Side
East Coast – a representative of the North Side, never waste time
Bitch, I’m in my spare time, fuck one – a co-sign
Because I understand better as proline, girl, I don’t lie
I had no money for a crib
Now my room service bill has cost your entire life
Don’t try to step on me, I’m going to the total army
I’m totally camouflaged like I’m in the army
Free my n – Jack, I wish he left in February
Perfect time to leave for the album release
But this is disposable ”
It is important to note that a few weeks ago, when James Brown of CBS, a black man who frequently criticizes racial discrimination, announced in the CBS NFL pre-game that The Weeknd would headline this Super Bowl, he said he was delighted with the news – just like CBS, the NFL and the NFL Justice and Talent Coordinator Jay-Z. Pepsi is the sponsor and facilitator of the break.
The Weeknd has some clean tunes, but many are aimed at those who were born to satisfy their immediate sexual desire, including a series in which he repeats: “Who’s going to f-k do you like me?” and other odes with more N words.
But James Brown claims to be delighted with The Weeknd’s choice, and carries the NFL seal of approval – as if Brown and Goodell could demonstrate the courage of their conviction by publicly repeating these lyrics.
And in our crazed world, to protest against the use of the N word is to risk being condemned as a deaf racist who doesn’t understand the context – as if there were a good one, as if the martyred Martin Luther King Jr. also just didn’t understand.
It remains to be seen whether family entertainment from this year’s Super Bowl break will be an improvement over recent decay extravaganzas. In 2019, the break program included stars who were rappers with N words, degrading and groin grabbers. Last year, Jennifer Lopez’s classless pole dancing striptease magazine made its hit beyond football.
Goodell and the NFL did their usual selective silence.
But remember: fight against sexism! Fight against racism!
A handful of schools conquer politics and the NFL
For this year’s Super Bowl Quiz, we invite reader Hank Ratner, who challenges us to name the five colleges that produced a US president and a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
The answers will be in next month’s Congressional record. Nah, the answers will be where they were, since Gutenberg first powered up his printer: below.
Evan promotional code: true or false? A game line has been established for the total number of players who will lose this Super Bowl due to the restrictions of COVID-19. Too macabre to be true. Ah, but it’s true. It’s 1.5.
False, but only so far: Up / Down is 3 times how many times CBS will cut unnecessarily for secondary reporters.
Up / Down in times of running backs and receivers will first signal down to emphasize that they, and no one else, had the ball: 3.
Number of times that Jim Nantz or Tony Romo will say “move the chains” instead of down first: 2.5.
Quiz Answers:
Joe Biden, Joe Flacco of Ravens; Delaware. Benjamin Harrison, Ben Roethlisberger of Steelers; Miami from Ohio. Gerald Ford, Tom Brady of the Patriots; Michigan. Jimmy Carter, Roger Staubach of the Cowboys; Navy. Herbert Hoover, Jim Plunkett of the Raiders and John Elway of the Broncos; Stanford.
Outdated tough talk of coaches
Reader Bill Moniz: “Watching the recent immature and semi-coherent ramblings of new NFL coach hires … Dan Campbell (Lions) and Nick Siriani (Eagles) make Joe Judge look like a combination of Winston Churchill and Vince Lombardi.”
According to unreachable sources, a touchdown at the Puppy Bowl on Sunday will end with a beagle marked for performing a genuine Odell Beckham Jr. in the end zone.
How does an NFL QB know when he was very successful? Well, when you type “Roethlisberger”, the computer no longer adds that red underline to alert you to spell checking.
My analysts tell me that Sunday’s game will be largely determined by at least one extra-long win after the defender tried to devastate the ball carrier instead of simply blocking it.
Also, the two retired last week, after incredible careers, what do Daniel Murphy and Dustin Pedroia have in common? A: At the beginning of their careers, both were totally and skillfully dismissed by Mike Francesa as totally devoid of MLB talent.
Happy 90th Larry Merchant, a former sports columnist for the Post and later the simple HBO boxing commentator and former Oklahoma third-string columnist running from Brooklyn.
Reader Louis Motola admits to taking an NBA “load management” day. “I went after a snowplow.”