The NFL season ends on Sunday, and I suspect it will end the same way it started: with reminders that we’re all racists who need to change our ways. No details are given. Nothing is ever given.
And since I haven’t oppressed a minority since breakfast – damn, I’ve been a virtual containment since March – I’m sick of it.
It’s all part of the radically mixed, highly selective social and racial messages conveyed with the cowardly, conceding certification and capitulation of Roger “The PSL Salesman” Goodell and a chosen blindness to what continues to haunt blackest America.
Scheduled to perform at halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday is the popular black entertainer who calls himself The Weeknd. He is unlikely to perform these – although you never know – but here are the lyrics to one of his songs, entitled ‘Ebony’. Apparently it is a love song. I’ve added the edits:
‘I think I’ve finally fallen in love
Her name is Tammy, she has hella bitches
She let me fuck while my n – filmed it …
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 ahead and show me how to get down
And I feel my whole body peaking
And I f-in ‘everyone with their legs wide
Took me higher than a … a from the west side
East coast n – a reppin ‘North Side, don’t waste your time
Bitch, I’m on my own time, goddamn co-character
‘Cause I get better as proline, baby, I’m not lying
Didn’t have money for a crib in the past
Now my room service bill is costing your life
N – attempting to kick me, I’m going full military
I’m completely camouflaged like I’m in the military
Free my after Jack, I wish he was free in February
The perfect time to come out for the release of the album
But this is throwing away “
It’s worth noting that a few weeks ago, when CBS ‘James Brown, a black man who often disapproves of racial discrimination, announced on CBS’ NFL pregame that The Weeknd would be headlining this Super Bowl, he said he was thrilled with this news – just as CBS, the NFL and NFL talent and justice coordinator Jay-Z. Pepsi is the halftime sponsor and enabler.
The Weeknd has a few clean songs, but many are aimed at those born to satisfy his immediate sexual appetite, including a song where he repeats, “Who’s gonna fuck you like me?” plus other more N-worded odes.
But James Brown claims to be delighted with The Weeknd’s choice, and it bears the stamp of NFL approval – as if Brown and Goodell would demonstrate the courage of their conviction by publicly repeating such lyrics.
And in our crazy world, protesting the use of the N word is risking being condemned as a tone-deaf racist who doesn’t understand the context – as if there is a good one, as if the martyr Martin Luther King Jr. just didn’t get it either.
It remains to be seen if family entertainment in the Super Bowl this year will be an improvement over recent extravagant extravagances. In 2019, the halftime show included stars who were N-worded, women-humiliating, cross-gripping rappers. Last year, Jennifer Lopez’s classless, pole-dancing strip-joint revue made its intended outdoor soccer splash.
Goodell and the NFL gave it 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 quiz, we appeal to reader Hank Ratner, who challenges us to name the five colleges that have produced a US president and a winning Super Bowl quarterback.
The answers will be in the conference report next month. No, the answers will be where they’ve been, since Gutenberg first turned his press: below.
Promotional code Evan: true or false? A betting line has been set for the total number of players to miss this Super Bowl due to COVID-19 restrictions. Too creepy to be true. Ah, but it is true. It’s 1.5.
Not true, but only so far: Over / Under is 3 times the number of times that CBS will unnecessarily cut back on side reporters.
Over / Under running backs and receivers will be the first to signal to emphasize that they, and no one else, had the ball: 3.
The number of times Jim Nantz or Tony Romo will say “moves the chains” instead of going down first: 2.5.
Quiz answers:
Joe Biden, Joe Flacco from Ravens; Delaware. Benjamin Harrison, Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger; Miami of Ohio. Gerald Ford, Tom Brady of the Patriots; Michigan. Jimmy Carter, Roger Staubach from Cowboys; Marine. Herbert Hoover, Jim Plunkett from the Raiders and John Elway from the Broncos; Stanford.
Outdated tough talk from coaches
Reader Bill Moniz: “Looking at the recent immature, semi-coherent ramblings of new NFL head coaching hires … Dan Campbell (Lions) and Nick Siriani (Eagles) make Joe Judge look like a combination of Winston Churchill and Vince Lombardi.”
According to untouchable sources, a touchdown in Sunday’s Puppy Bowl will end with a beagle being flagged for performing a real Odell Beckham Jr. in the end zone.
How does an NFL QB know when he has grown up? When you type “Roethlisberger”, the computer no longer adds that red underline to warn the spell checker.
My curbs tell me Sunday’s game will be largely determined by at least one extra-long win after the defender tried to destroy the ball carrier rather than simply tackling him.
Besides both retiring last week, after a great career, what do Daniel Murphy and Dustin Pedroia have in common? A: Early in their careers, both were completely and professionally dismissed by Mike Francesa as totally devoid of MLB talent.
Happy 90th Larry Merchant, former Post sports columnist and later telling the plain truth, HBO boxing commentator and former sub-par third-string Oklahoma walking back from Brooklyn.
Reader Louis Motola admits to having attended an NBA ‘load management’ day. “I was following a snow plow.”