Whitlock: Left Re-making Pro Football Into Equality Utopia

Sunday’s Super Bowl was merely “a stage to promote the Left’s vision of equality, a utopia where a handful of powerful elites select winners and losers based on skin color, sexuality, and gender.” That’s the opinion of The Blaze commentator Jason Whitlock.

Whitlock claims NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has presided over chaos and racial division at the expense of merit. The NFL rejected the values that once made it “the strongest force in popular culture,” he says.

In place of merit, “football is now in the business of manipulating and controlling outcomes off the field. A small group of elites are able to ignore merit, decide who will officiate, sing, or throw the coin. It sounds harmless and inconsequential.” But it’s not.

Whitlock believes that Goodell can be compared to the incompetent Union General Ambrose Burnside, Civil War legend. Burnside’s tactics during the Battle of Antietam failed, and Goodell’s are tanking as well, Whitlock says.

Taking that analogy a step further, Whitlock says, “Rebel forces bullied Goodell into turning television’s largest platform and sports’ greatest meritocracy into a showcase for the Left’s tokenism and quota system that is cleverly branded as diversity, inclusion, and equity.”

Pre-game festivities were clear examples of tokenism, in Whitlock’s estimation. Mary Mary performed the black national anthem on the SoFi Stadium parking lot. Tennis great/lesbian Billie Jean King narrated a video about Title IX and inclusion (reminding us of the NFL’s video claiming football is “gay, lesbian, queer and transgender”). Ron Torbert (black official) and King facilitated pre-game coin flips.

Mixed-race singer Jhene Aiko sang America the Beautiful. Mickey Guyton, a black woman known for creating a tribute to George Floyd, performed The Star Spangled Banner. This inclusion blitz wasn’t inclusive.

Whitlock’s exclamation point on the diversity-inclusion-equity agenda was the Pepsi halftime show featuring Snoop Dog, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre. “(G)angsta rappers are not appropriate for Super Bowl halftime,” Whitlock writes. “Gangsta rap is lyrical pornography. It’s to be ingested in the privacy of your headphones.”

The Dre- and Snoop-hosted “gangsta party” was “a celebration of gang culture on the Super Bowl stage” and the mainstreaming of black culture. Whitlock explained that Ron Jeremy and Hugh Hefner, culture poisoners, would make a white version of these rappers.

The inclusion script is “poisonous fruit” that is also seen on the NFL’s playing field.

Media raved about several playoff games being close, but Whitlock noted obvious blown calls by the Super Bowl’s officiating crew as evidence of a decline in competition and performance. For instance, on the Rams’ winning drive there was a play in which three of their offensive linemen committed false starts, but the diverse officiating crew missed all of them.

Instead of easing up on the inclusion foot pedal, the NFL plans to accelerate it. To make space for black and female referees, qualified officials will be removed. Black head coaches will be more in demand by the league. This is the “deadly script” of the modern day “General Burnside,” Whitlock predicts.