MAGAT heads are exploding because the NFL plans on having the song

[kairos12]

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" played before games this year.

It's not right and non-american (or something like that) they lament as they hurl their screed from behind a curtain of Confederate Flags.

[Dream Girl]

1. Now GOP state legislatures will have to inact legislation outlawing that song.

at public events. I’m not even kidding

[bronxiteforever]

8. +1 Yes that is the way they are going.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Did you mean LIFT?

Just askin'

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Fairly certain that's what was meant

In which case, the butthurt will be off the charts.

[kairos12]

4. Correction made. Thank you Ferrets!

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. YVW

[Omnipresent]

6. Oh no! Now the Lib's in the NFL owns them now!

[Texaswitchy]

7. I had a GGrandfather fight under that miserable flag.

I saw a picture of him in uniform holding that miserable flag.
Just stupid poor man fighting so a rich white man could have slaves.

Still the same.

Play that song.

[Aristus]

10. Right there with you.

Every ancestor of mine who fought in the Civil War fought for the Confederacy.

I don't know why people think that blood-relation requires that I support and defend what they did.

Cause I f*****g don't...

[Texaswitchy]

11. My GGrandfather was a fool.

He lost everything and moved to Texas.

[Hoyt]

9. Apparently, that was started in 2020 before the opening games. Rubes are little slow getting ticked.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/02/886936096/the-nfl-will-play-lift-every-voice-and-sing-before-each-season-opener-game

[Hortensis]

15. :) Maybe the "rubes" were thrown off balance back then because

many black voices were objecting too. They found themselves hatemongering on the same side of the road, albeit for very different reasons. Apparently many of the black objectors did some rethinking and are now okay with having this be an NFL thing.

I'm glad it survived and will be sung, but only for a while -- until we retire The Star Spangled Banner, which stinks in so many ways, from professional sports altogether. Meanwhile, two "anthems" unfortunately claimed as their own by racial and/or nationalist factions can hopefully act as a move toward a very different place we need to be.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Is Anybody Watching On TV...

...even going to hear it?
The Bears games I've been to have the anthem played around 15 minutes before kickoff.
The telecast starts about 2 minutes before kickoff.
So, these whiny babies won't even be exposed to what they hate so much, unless they're at the game, in-person.
Maybe not week one or the Superbowl, because the pregame coverage is extensive & goes on and on.
But, the rest of the games?

[Sur Zobra]

13. I thought that they weren't watching

the games anyway

[Captain Stern]

14. Well, the NFL has gone and done it now....super-double-mega-secret-unwatch boycott coming.

Now, they aren't just going to continue not watching games....they're going to unwatch games they already saw.

Yup...they're going to find videos of games they've previously watched...then play them in reverse (while watching them)...thus, 'unwatching' them.