Shallow Gestures, Woke Social Messaging And In Your Face Blatant Signaling Confirm They Don’t Give Two Craps About Their Fan Base
I was going to follow-up my last article with some thoughts on “real election fraud.” But I can’t let pass the National Football League (NFL) continued bony middle finger to its fan base through its sponsorship of aberrant messages indicating it is tone deaf and dead set on insulting it’s American fan base through in-your-face endorsement of woke, disgusting, perverted, borderline criminal themes that resonate with minor segments of our society who do not represent their primary audience and fan base: and to what end?
The revival of thought and sentiment in my last article must be followed up to remind that those who forget history are not only doomed to repeat it. But also, if you don’t take note and make a ruckus and call out these social justice focused political acts when our leaders and politicians play us for fools-simps-a fish biting a hook, with these blatantly-in-your-face, disturbing woke demonstrations as the price for watching these events, they will continue unabated.
The messages truly jar the senses and represent an affront to America-Americana-promoting divisiveness and disrespect to our dignity as citizens and to our nation-during events watched by the world who can’t help but think this is supported by Americans. Not speaking out encourages these fools and the bony middle finger insults will continue as we perhaps suffer in silence and protest in our own little ways by not watching anymore of these events.
I will admit that I returned to old habits this season watching National Football League (NFL) Games, mainly because my Patriots revived from the dead and the doldrums to have a winning season again. I was also guilty of watching other games and was not disappointed, as the league is competitive and entertaining and often amazing, as evidenced by the performance of my second team-the Denver Broncos-who also had an amazing year. Some of the comebacks were truly amazing and the athletes are near super-human compared to the average American and most other sports.
Truth be known I personally fell off the proverbial wagon of watching the NFL at least 14 years ago or so, as the exorbitant amount to get the NFL Football Package on cable/Direct TV approached $200 a year when I only wanted to watch Patriots games. My wife likely said it best-that tracking the line score on computer and listening to the games on broadcast radio seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face over a measly $200 bucks. And-yes-I know-it was and is a small gesture-trivial-but the NFL got bolder-worse-over time.
The Peabody and Sherman Way-Back Machine recalls a time when the St. Louis Cardinals moved out to Arizona and the idjiots in Phoenix thought it best to call them the “Phoenix” Cardinals and collude with the NFL to blackout home games far beyond the normal range, extending it to include not only the Tucson market two hours away but also the little town of Sierra Vista, Arizona-some three hours/180 miles away, obviously targeting a community that includes where Fort Huachuca sits.
They struggled for a long time and were one of the few teams in the league that had difficulty selling out their home games-for several years. Which eventually led them to reconsider and change the name to the “Arizona Cardinals.” There was also the little matter of them publicly maligning their well-known head coach Gene Stallings. The view from Phoenix can be judged in one of my favorite takes on the situation that touches upon myriad problems in “Phoenixtown:” a hick sports town, indeed hahaha…
In previous articles I covered how the deep thinkers in Phoenix-where the state legislature resided-long ago brokered with leaders in Tucson to entice the moving of the capital to Phoenix in exchange for giving Tucson the state college, the University of Arizona. Never timid about doing what they want, Phoenix would later establish Arizona State University and later still build it into one of the biggest colleges in America.
The NFL does a lot of good in communities around the country, most notably with their community outreach programs that culminate in the yearly Walter Payton/Man of the Year Award in recognition of players who stand out on the field of play and among their peers in connecting with and getting involved with youth and those challenged by problems like mental illness, health issues, homelessness and drug dependence, as well as Veterans issues.
The NFL is a highly marketable product and its extension to overseas exposure of football games plays very well on the world stage and expands the potential marketing to from 100s of millions to the billions in terms of the number of potential fans. It is a genius campaign, unless one steps back and does a bit of shallow analysis on some of the ramifications which I will touch upon later.
The NFL survives on broadcast and television contract revenue, merchandise marketing, attendance for games for owners in particular, and various other and sundry income streams.
The Super Bowl is one of the biggest marketing opportunities in the world, second perhaps only to the original futball/football-soccer games-on the world stage. With the half-time show providing a tremendous opportunity for entertainment for a mostly captive audience, with historic revenue generating opportunities in the form of during game commercials which are becoming egregious, at risk of disrupting the flow and tempo of the game.
The game is increasingly secondary to a lot of ongoing distractions.
The tremendous marketing appeal of the Super Bowl has not stopped the NFL from frequently whiffing on this great opportunity, embracing social justice issues and woke messaging when people just want to be entertained without getting aberrant messaging thrust in their face under the guise of a football game.
The NFL had a true layup opportunity this year and catastrophically blew-it, proving once again they are an equal-opportunity, woke, dedicated, aberrant thinking hot mess. Which continues a trend in the 21st century of abusing their fan base by allowing social justice, racial and sexual/gender messaging that freely insults broad and large segments of American society while appeasing fringe elements who cannot possibly represent income generating elements of the NFL fan base.
The NFL leadership could give two schticks less, inflicting racial, sexual, gender, pornographic and divisive messaging on their dedicated fans that continues with no apparent ramifications.
In recent years we’ve seen a little bit of everything, nipples exposed, stripper poles, middle finger salutes, rappers engage in rival bash messaging, celebration of gangsta rap, cartels and gang signs, celebration of the Black Liberation Revival Movement and their central message of the elimination of the nuclear black family, the highlighting of “artists” who promoted the killing of presidents and all manner of racial, kink, social justice bullspit, all apparently inspired by opportunists taking advantage of the marketing opportunity provided by an American tradition championship game.
What was the alternative for this year? I don’t know-it is not my thing, as I haven’t watched in years-but how about celebrating the United States of America closing on the 250th Anniversary of its founding as a nation? That’s kind of a big deal-milestone.
Just imagine the potential, the pageantry of a Red, White and Blue themed halftime show featuring military flyovers, a historical trace through the sacrifice of Americans of all stripes and colors and the battles fought to gain independence, to put an end to slavery through the Civil War, the emergence on the world stage that culminated in WWI and WWII where the US emerged as the predominant nation on earth.
Military precision, performance drill teams, choirs, an all-star performance by academy football teams. Fly overs by jets and helicopters and all manner of our military highlighted. A mass jump into the stadium.
To present themes where America is a leader on a world stage and the dominant nation across a wide variety of areas, highlighting the potential for youth to lead the way in the future on many frontiers as championed by the NFL, represented by the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, where football players from all teams engage in efforts in their communities promoting education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM,) a partnership the NFL is embracing with an emphasis on minority and indigenous as well as military veterans and the homeless, focused on children’s issues and challenges and lifting up all youth to participate and benefit from NFL communities around the nation.
Phffft, what are you thinking? That’s not the NFL message, which continues to be racially and gender divisive instead of uplifting and unifying. The laudatory Walter Payton presentation was introduced along with the original song written over a hundred years ago adopted by the NAACP as the “Negro National Anthem,” but now socially adjusted and billed as the “Black National Anthem.”
For many of us Americans it is somewhat of a puzzlement where and why and how this has become a thing in a country where the melting pot of many world cultures exist without the need to separate those cultures out in recognition of them over assimilating and being American. The content or worth of the song is not in dispute, much like the playing of America The Beautiful.
It is the divisive idea that there is and would be such a thing.
One wonders where does this ridiculosity stop-and will not be shocked-when the NFL wokes further up and lectures us on social issues when they recognize other nationalities in America with their own distinctive national anthems, and start calling the “Star Bangled Banner” the “White National Anthem,” which is certainly insinuated by promoting a Black National Anthem in an accommodation to ~13% of our population.
Will we be subjected to an “Hispanic National Anthem” in the future? Paying tribute to-what-the dominant races in America? Or is this intended to recognize that the NFL has a predominate number of black players and they demand recognition in the form of a separate recognition? Is that what this is really about??? What’s next, the WNBA coming up with a Women’s National Anthem? I mean, why not? Youth National Anthem, Furry National Anthem, LGBTQMOUSE National Anthem, the marketing possibilities are endless.
This feels totally different than when-say-Major League Baseball or the National Hockey League plays the Canadian and American National Anthems-or like in the Olympics celebrating the Gold Medal Winner with their National Anthem. Does this set a precedent where the Olympics might play the so-called Black National Anthem for blacks who win in the future? Or maybe opt to play an African National Anthem for an American Black who prefers that rendition of honor?
Would I opt to play the Canadian National Anthem if I were to win a medal, being of Canadian lineage many moons ago? Why not? Where does this NFL pandering stop? I pointed out in my previous article the jaw dropping irony of NFL players playing in England standing for God Save the Queen but kneeling for the Star-Spangled Banner.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the NFL blatantly disrespected those of Spanish heritage in America-Hispanics-who are the second largest demographic in America numbering some >20%, under this prevailing apparent logic with no National Anthem of their own, while marketing an aberrant and proud Puerto Rican transvestite, while celebrating his apparent inability or arrogance or reluctance to speak and perform in English, while allowing aberrant acts and profane and disgusting language that would never be allowed to be broadcast to a world audience in English under any other circumstances?
A mere 13% of Americans speak Spanish, would it have been too much to ask-too difficult-to provide the courtesy of subtitles for the audience and in the stadium for the football fans? Although much like the “nipple-game,” many of the reported translations would similarly result in fines from the Federal Communications Commission as violations of profanity, vulgarity and “taste.”
What signal did the NFL intend-send-with the main entertainment featuring a woke, proud transvestite, Puerto Rican weirdo who is largely an embarrassment to his country and most Hispanics in America, performing in Spanish-throughout his entire routine-that featured gyrating and grinding gay couples-but of course-culminating in the apparent obligatory English phrase-“God Bless America”-which was revealed as a double entendre that was followed by a call out to Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico-etc. So, the only part relevant to America-our America-was the recognition of the America’s.
When it became apparent that the NFL was serious about this and was going to post a bony middle finger to the majority of its fan base, Erika Kirk on behalf of Charlie Kirk’s (RIP) legacy organization Turning Point USA offered a competing half-time show with a patriotic and Christian theme that reportedly drew a live stream audience of over ten million and numbers approaching 30 million viewers when all venues/viewing opportunities reported. And that was without “X” which apparently had some challenges that precluded participation.
I haven’t watched a Super Bowl halftime show since the Rolling Stones played, although I have followed up with the controversial performances over the years-which have been recurring throughout this century.
Without regard to the quality of the TP USA’s effort this year, the fact that a very late and last minute alternative to the woke and dissonant Super Bowl show received close to 30 million viewers-which does not account for “groups” where a gathering of fans participated-although the same can be said about the Super Bowl viewing audience.
Nonetheless, the NFL should take note that a very large number of viewers-over 20% of the reported number of viewers-opted to tune in to an alternative platform in seeming protest to the NFL’s woke, bullspit nonsense choice of entertainers that spit in the face of American viewers by presenting a half-time show conducted in Spanish by a known transvestite entertainer spouting profanity in a foreign language and highlighting an aberrant message.
Advertisers look to get eyeballs on products. Me thinks a marker was thrown down this year-a gauntlet-that the NFL should be mindful of going forward the next time they choose to make social justice messaging the predominant theme for an audience that is looking to be entertained at a sporting event.
Max Dribbler
12 February 2026
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I think you vastly overestimate the numbers that watched the NFL halftime show. Many people, perhaps most, would eat, use the restroom, talk, just about anything other than watch the show without bothering to turn off the TV or switch the station. Meanwhile over 20 million people purposely switched stations to watch the TPUSA show. Realizing the number that actually went to the trouble of changing stations, it’s likely the TPUSA show was actually much more watched than the NFL show.
Thanks for reading! Good points all. Bolsters my main point-the NFL received a warning shot across the bow that they ignore at their peril. Many folks who reached out or communicated simply shut their TV off. Do want to point out I have no idea how many watched it, just going with reported numbers, although this past week reporters like Jason Whitlock have opined on the diminishment of the Super Bowl viewership that he attributed to many of the points I touched upon herein. Also interesting is the NFL in recent years commissioned a service that attempts to aggregate viewer numbers in hopes to bolster the bottom-line. However, those efforts have only confirmed the decline in Super Bowl viewership despite the drive to expand international audiences through overseas games. MD