NFL Teams Refuse to Honor Charlie Kirk

After the NFL decided they weren’t going to honor Charlie Kirk, or call out political violence league-wide, it was up to NFL teams hosting games Sunday whether they were going to do the right thing or not.

Unfortunately, 5 NFL teams cowardly went silent.

If you’re a fan of these teams, make your voice heard and condemn them for their cowardice.

[Music] to make us all the bright light in this world. Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Obviously, we have to talk more about the response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. So, a lot of people during these times look to sports to unite us. 9/11 and as was the story around the country yesterday, signs of patriotism are overt and in abundance. Any other tragedy, what are sports going to do to unite us? Are they going to call out evil? Are they going to bring us together as a nation? The NFL had the chance to do that. And what you just watched was a great example of a team saying Charlie was a light. Charlie died for simply having civil conversations on college campuses. He said a lot of things that the left and the godless didn’t like and he died for it. But during these times, leagues usually have something to say. When tragedy strikes, the NFL, the NBA, the MLS, the MLB, the WNBA, the NHL have had nothing to say. There’s been no official statement about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. So, during Thursday night’s game, you were able to see this. All right. Moments ago inside the stadium, the Packers and the NFL observed a silent reflection following yesterday’s events. The National Football League asks that you please join us in a moment of silent reflection following the murder of Charlie Kirk. The NFL condemns all violence in our communities. It will take all of us to stop hate. Thank you. Great gesture. We appreciated it. But there was a big difference that people saw between this and the reaction to the death of George Floyd. Roger Goodell came out with a statement trying to denounce racism. Even though we know wholeheartedly no part of that death, though it’s sad to see somebody die, had nothing to do with race. They pushed this whole Black Lives Matter, which is obviously a self-proclaimed Marxist organization. They put Black Lives Matter on the field. They decided they’re going to add a another national anthem, the Black National Anthem. [Music] They bent over backwards after the death of George Floyd. But when we’re looking for them to make a statement to hopefully unify us and condemn political violence, Roger Goodell has nothing to say. They did share a statement with publications though. So you see this article from Fox News. It was able to give a breakdown of what the NFL had to say. You will not find this statement on their website. You will only be able to find snippets of the statement from publications. But luckily, my boy was able to send me the entirety of the message. Last night’s moment was the league’s decision. It’s up to clubs for this Sunday’s game. So again, they were not going to do a leaguewide moment of silence. They were not going to tell teams like they did in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death to make some sort of statement. They went on to say this. There have been a variety of moments of silence and tributes in stadium and on air in all games or a game immediately following events that rise to a national level. Clubs also often hold moments following a tragic event that affects their community. There have been moments following school shootings or attack on a house of worship such as the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. They talked about the Hamas tax attack in Israel, so on and so forth. And then what do they do? They defend their use of a second national anthem. They say this in just this calendar year, lift every voice and sing has be been performed at league events since 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and the events of the summer of 2020, including last Thursday during the kickoff game in Philadelphia. It has also performed before the Super Bowl. They finished off with this. The summer before the Hall of Fame game in Canton, the league honored victims and those impacted by the attack at 345 Park Avenue. During week 18 games last season, the NFL honored victims of the Bourbon Street terrorist attack. So on and so forth. They just told you the assassination of Charlie Kirk is similar to Demar Hamlin. But George Floyd, he deserved all the articles, the millions of dollars pretty much each team sent to social justice initiatives. They defend racially divided us with lift every voice. And now we get to a place where it was up to 13 teams to decide whether they were on they were going to honor Charlie Kirk or not. They were going to decide, are we going to condemn political violence or not? Are we going to unify the nation around football or not? Five teams decided they were not going to honor Charlie Kirk with a moment of silence. the Detroit Lions, the Indianapolis Colts, the Baltimore Ravens, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Minnesota Vikings. Every single one of these teams had something to say about George Floyd. One of these teams actually bent over backwards to defend their flamboyant gay male cheerleaders. That was the Minnesota Vikings. Do you notice the clear double standard and the clear hypocrisy here? And again, there’s so many people online, they’re like, “Well, aren’t you the people that says, “Don’t make sports political.” This is literally just calling out wrongs. This is a tragedy. But while you get so many people celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, which is evil and disgusting and vile, if certain team, if it was up to certain teams to make a statement about the assassination of MLK, wouldn’t it be weird that a few teams just opt out and just say, “No, we don’t feel like covering that. it’s not important or we’re afraid to make things political. Overall, if you’re a fan of these teams, you should 100% be condemning them for their silence. They don’t need to go as far as the New York Jets did, putting a full video montage together cuz other teams like the Dallas Cowboys, I’m pretty sure all they did was just have a moment of silence and they had a photo of Charlie Kirk. You could simply just condemn violence. But when you have so many things to say about George Floyd and you gaslight your individual fans and football fans in general, divide us upon racial lines, villainize cops, but you got nothing to say about this. We obviously know that you’re cowards. That’s what it comes down to. It’s been a heavy week for so many of us and it’s sad when sports has the ability to bring us together and they don’t. They have the ability to just call out clear wrongs. This is not political. This is not a left versus right thing. This is an American thing. We should come together. And when teams are silent about this, we should tell them that’s cowardly. I think we’re going to wrap up with this. If anybody in sports media and sports in general has done a good job bringing us together and rising to the moment, it’s Pat McAfee. Pat McAfee had an amazing amazing statement after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. While ESPN has been silent again, they had plenty of things to say about George Floyd, but have not had one post about Charlie Kirk. One ESPN personality, Pat McAfee, has stepped up to the plate. Not only was that post on X amazing, what he had to say at College Game Day was even better. He told us to unify around football, he made us laugh. And we can just watch this as we wrap up this video. But before I show you Pat McAfee on College Game Day, if you like this kind of content, please subscribe. You can share this with a friend, comment, let me know your thoughts. Obviously, always up for a discussion. left, right, center, Christian or not, I want to keep the conversation going. Uh, you can click the bell so you can get notified anytime I’m coming out with a piece of content. But without further ado, here’s Pat McAfee. It’s a great day to be a Tennessee Volunteer. It’s also a great day to live in the greatest country on earth, the United States of America. USA. And all week we’ve seen and heard maybe a lot more than we ever should about what separates us and what makes us different and our differing opinions. But on this beautiful campus, on this glorious Saturday, you’ll see 102,000 plus in the eighth largest stadium in the world from different economic backgrounds, political backgrounds, religious backgrounds, you name it. All coming together for one thing, and that’s to kick in Georgia’s ass. [Applause] A football locker room is the greatest place on earth. it stadium is as well. And today we celebrate what makes this country great. And today we celebrate the greatest sport on earth, football. And it’s great to be a Tennessee volunteer. And it’s great to be on Rocky Top Ree. I’m a lucky man as we all are. Shout out to football. Let’s do this thing. Man, it pulls everybody together, doesn’t it? Tries to at least. And I think that’s what we need to remember, especially on weeks like this. It’s great to be alive. It’s great to be a football fan and Saturday always delivers this college football