The NFL season ends Sunday, and I suspect it will end the same way it started: with memories that we are all racists that we need to change. No details will be given. No one is ever given.
And because I’ve not suppressed a minority since breakfast – hell, I’m been a virtual lockdown since March – I’m sick of it.
It’s all part of the radically mixed, extremely selective social and racial messages delivered with the cowardly, pandemic certification and capitulation of Roger “The PSL Salesman” Goodell and a chosen blindness to what most still do in black America harass.
The popular black entertainer who calls himself The Weeknd will perform according to Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime. He’s unlikely to perform this one – though you never know – but here are the lyrics from one of his numbers, titled “Ebony.” It’s apparently a love song. I added the changes:
‘I think I’m finally in love now
Her name is Tammy, she got hella bitches
She lets me f – k ’em while I film 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 head and show me how you’re going through
And I feel my whole body getting peak fine
And I’m a person whose legs are wide
Got me higher than ‘na from the West Side
East Coast n – a reppin ‘North Side, never waste a ho’s time
Bitch, I’m on my own time, fuck a – a co-sign
Because I get it better like proline, girl, I’m not lying
Previously did not have money for a crib
Now my room service bill has cost you your whole life
After trying to step me up, I’m going to be an overall military
I’m like a military military champion
Free me to Jack, wish he was out in February
The perfect time to drop the album
But throw away this s-ta ”
It’s noteworthy that James Brown, a black man who regularly confesses racial discrimination, announced a few weeks ago on CBS ‘NFL prediction that The Weeknd would be the Super Bowl headline, and he said he was delighted this news – just like CBS, the NFL, and NFL Talent and Justice Coordinator Jay-Z. Pepsi is the sponsor and enabler for rest time.
The Weeknd has some clean songs, but many are aimed at those born to satisfy his immediate sexual lust, including a number in which he repeats, “who are you going to have like me?” plus other more N-worded odes.
But James Brown claims he is delighted with The Weeknd’s choice, and it bears the NFL’s stamp of approval – as if Brown and Goodell would show the courage of their conviction by repeating such lyrics in public.
And in our world, the nut in, to protest the use of the N-word, is to venture condemnation as a tone-deaf racist who does not understand the context – as if there is a good, as if the martyr Martin Luther King Jr. just did not get it either.
It remains to be seen whether the family entertainment of the Super Bowl half-season will be an improvement over recent extravagances. In the half-time show in 2019, there were stars with N-wording, women-humiliating, cross-gripping rappers. Last year, the classless revue of Jennifer Lopez, a classic dance floor joint, sparked the goal outside of football.
Goodell and the NFL gave it their usual, selective silence.
But remember: fight sexism! Move racism!
Handful of schools conquer 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 U.S. president and a Super Bowl fullback.
The answers will be in next month’s congressional record. No, the answers will be where they have been since Gutenberg first turned his press: below.
Promotional code Evan: true or false? A dice line has been set for the total number of players to miss this Super Bowl due to COVID-19 restrictions. Too soon to be true. Ah, but it’s true. This is 1.5.
False, but only so far: Over / Under is three times how many times CBS will cut to marginal reporters unnecessarily.
Over-and-under backs and receivers walk down first to emphasize that they, and no one else, had the ball: 3.
The number of times Jim Nantz or Tony Romo will say “move the chains” instead of first: 2.5.
Question answers:
Joe Biden, Ravens’ Joe Flacco; Delaware. Benjamin Harrison, Ben Roethlisberger of Steelers; Miami of Ohio. Gerald Ford, Tom Brady of the Patriots; Michigan. Jimmy Carter, Roger Staubach of Cowboys; Fleet. Herbert Hoover, Raiders ‘Jim Plunkett and Broncos’ John Elway; Stanford.
Outdated tough conversation by coaches
Reader Bill Moniz: “Look at the recent immature, semi-cohesive mess 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 the Puppy Bowl on Sunday will conclude with a brak marked for the performance of a true Odell Beckham Jr. in the end zone.
How does an NFL QB know when he raised it? If you type ‘Roethlisberger’, the computer no longer adds the red underline to warn spell check.
My curb feelers tell me that Sunday’s game will largely be determined by at least one extra long win after the defender tried to destroy the ball carrier, rather than simply tackle him.
Aside from the fact that both retired last week after tremendous careers, what do Daniel Murphy and Dustin Pedroia have in common? A: Early in their careers, both were fully and expertly dismissed by Mike Francesa as completely robbed of MLB talent.
Happy 90th Larry Merchant, former Sports columnist for Post and later the simple truthful HBO boxing commentator and former undersized Oklahoma, third string, running back from Brooklyn.
Reader Louis Motola admits he took an NBA “load management” day. “I was walking behind a snow plow.”