Today in Capitulating to Mediocrity:

Look, I'm not a sports person and I never was. For me, football was just that thing that ran over and made the local affiliates join Star Trek: The Next Generation already in progress.

"Wait...is that...is that supposed to be Mark Twain? How did this
even happen? I guess I'll just have to wait until someone invents DVD's."

-me, age thirteen

We had a Black President once, so
racism is over forever, right?

But this is 2025, and if there's one take away from the times in which we find ourselves, it's that everybody should feel free to chime in with opinions about how other people should live their lives. In that spirit, I'm going to say that I find it telling that the NFL has decided to remove the "End Racism" signs from the end zones at the Caesars Superdome in Las Vegas; the site of Super Bowl LIX. Oh, and did I mention that noted felon and President Donald Trump is planning to attend? I didn't? Hey, you don't suppose one thing has anything to do with another, do you?

Hmm...maybe we shouldn't have
cut back on staffing, Elon...

Sorry, was I being coy? What I mean to say is that in a further capitulation to the delicate sensibilities of the MAGA folks, the NFL has agreed to change the sign to "Choose Love." A cloying and meaningless expression they're trying to pass off as a message of healing in the wake of the fires in Southern California, and all those planes that keep falling out of the sky. For some reason. And is it me, or is "Choose Love" strikingly similar to the anti-choice "Choose Life" slogan. You know, the one people write on signs before they harass women outside of clinics. 

Guess who these tools voted for?
No, really, go on. Guess.

Back when there were clinics, I mean. Sorry, got a little dark there. Of course, can you blame me? The thing is, "Choose Love" strikes me as a shitty thing to replace "End Racism" with given how not ended racism is. I suppose one could make the case that it's an exhortation to the President in hopes that he'll choose love and back away from spreading fear and misery, but I don't think so. I seriously doubt the American Right understands love.

"Wah! Everything's woke and DEI makes planes
crash and something about imigrants. Waaaah!"

-the American Right

What? Remember when he demanded an apology from the Bishop of DC for having the temerity to ask him to show mercy? Or just yesterday the President took time away from his busy schedule of reigniting the Crusades to ban trans women and girls from female sports. Is there a problem with trans women playing sports with other women? No. But that's what they're loosing their minds about. The fact that this is red meat for his most fervent fans says to me that love has no place in their lives. 

But whatever. I don't care what the end zone at the Super Bowl says, I really don't. I didn't know end zone slogans were a thing until today, and honestly I couldn't name the teams that are playing. I'm just disheartened to see how ok an organization like the NFL is with appeasing a man and a movement dedicated to hatred and division. 

Again, not a football fan so maybe I'm missing
something here, but this is irony, isn't it?