The last thing the NFL wants is to get involved in politics.
That’s especially true following the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s win.
But now the NFL is facing one woke protest that has everything to do with Donald Trump.
The leftist sports media whines about the Trump dance
The Trump dance is the newest sensation in the world of sports.
Players mimic Trump’s trademark dance moves after sacks, touchdowns, and goals.
That – of course – enraged the sports media, which continues to show it’s even more leftist than the political media.
Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers faced questions from reporters about doing the Trump dance in the team’s week 11 matchup with the Miami Dolphins.
Bowers said he saw UFC heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones perform the dance after his victory and wanted to imitate.
“I’ve seen everyone do it,” Bowers told reporters. “I watched the UFC fight last night and Jon Jones did it. I like watching UFC, so I saw it and thought it was cool.”
The NFL faced questions from the media about whether it would ban the Trump dance for being a political statement.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league wouldn’t as the celebration fell within the rules since it wasn’t violent or sexual in nature.
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith ripped his colleagues during his YouTube show.
Smith found it preposterous that the NFL had to face questions in the first place and blamed the media for wanting to “protest every little damn thing.”
“Here’s why I’m p***ed off, that the NFL had to even issue a statement about it. Because celebrations usually don’t warrant that,” Smith declared. “It doesn’t require a response from the league. So why was it necessary this time? You know why? Because we got a bunch of people still living with their heads in the cloud acting like they get to protest every little damn thing. “
Smith said the press needed to accept the fact that Trump won the election in decisive fashion means most of America is on board with Trump and his agenda.
“This is America. Donald Trump won the election, rather convincingly, I might add . . .” Smith continued.
Smith told his audience he was annoyed at the media for throwing a conniption fit about the Trump dance and found it symbolic of the “woke culture” that allowed Trump to win in the first place.
Smith argued that Americans were sick of self-censoring themselves to appease the cancel mob and gave the scolds a giant middle finger by re-electing Trump.
“And why am I ticked off? Because it was emblematic of the climate that we’ve been living in for years now, which is why I believe Donald Trump was really elected . . . woke culture, cancel culture, oh hell yes, that played a role. When you got people walking around wondering whether or not they’re echoing the right pronoun. Wondering whether or not that was gonna cost them their job or being PC because, God forbid, your opinion is different than the average folk walking around in America. Lord knows what would happen to you. That’s what America regressed to,” Smith stated.
Smith warned the media that pro athletes were Americans just like everyone else and the sportswriters were going to have to deal with the fact that there are plenty of Trump supporters in the world of sports.
“I got news for you,” Smith concluded. “Football players are usually American people. So are basketball players. So are UFC fighters, they got a right to support who the hell they want without the league needing to send in a response.”
