The NFL should paint ‘end domestic violence’ in its end zones
Christopher Tremoglie
Anyone who has watched an NFL game over the last several years should be aware of the league’s pandering to the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice issues. It’s impossible to miss the left-wing propaganda in stadiums throughout the country. Messages such as “End Racism” or “It Takes All of Us” are painted in every end zone on the football field. These, and the NFL’s other social justice “initiatives,” are primarily the result of the league’s flag kneeling fiasco and fallout from the death of George Floyd in 2020.
The league’s football operations website has a page dedicated to “social justice.” The impetus for this was the league’s executives claimed they wanted to help bring “positive change” to the country amid the so-called racial reckoning. Unfortunately, all it does is perpetuate toxic left-wing sociopolitical myths that help advance bogus ideological narratives. Yet, if the league really wanted to help bring positive change and awareness to a legitimate problem that is plaguing the country, it would start painting “Stop beating women” in NFL end zones instead.
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“The NFL family, in partnership with players, clubs, and owners, works to create positive change in communities across the country and ensure that equal opportunity becomes a reality for all,” the NFL’s social justice website reads. But apparently, that does not include the many incidents of domestic abuse in which many of the NFL’s players have been accused of beating women.
One of those players, Buffalo Bills defensive star Von Miller, was accused of assaulting a pregnant woman, the mother of his children, last month. Miller turned himself in to the police and has so far cooperated with authorities, according to reports. However, even with such severe allegations and criminal charges against him, Miller was allowed to continue to play in his team’s games. Buffalo Bills officials expressed disappointment over the incident and said the allegations were “serious.” However, I suppose not as severe as needing Miller’s defensive prowess in games down the stretch to help the Bills’ playoff chances.
Everyone deserves fair and due process, and Miller is no exception. However, it seems like any time a player is accused of domestic violence, the league doesn’t seem as aggressive in its discipline as it is with other issues. Moreover, domestic abuse charges are something that has plagued the league for years now. And the league takes a very feeble position on such issues. Who could forget the harrowing video from 2021 of former NFL running back Zac Stacy brutally attacking a woman? Yet for all the NFL’s virtue signaling and desire to be active in social justice, its silence on the staggering number of players who have been arrested on domestic violence charges is deafening.
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Multiple publications have reported on the number of domestic abuse arrests involving NFL players. Since 2000, there have been “134 players arrested for domestic abuse and 15 for crimes related to sexual assault, battery, or solicitation.” Furthermore, domestic violence accounts for 55% of the total arrests of NFL players, the highest percentage of all criminal charges in the league. Yet the NFL seemingly takes more actions to advance the social desires of the Black Lives Matter movement than it does to protect the women romantically involved with NFL players.
Talking about creating “positive change in communities across the country” is one thing. Doing something about legitimate problems in those communities is another. Until the NFL decides to be as proactive in messaging about domestic abuse as it is about the myths of social justice, no one should take the league’s antics seriously. And until fans start seeing painted messages in the end zone about ending domestic violence, anything the NFL says or does is disingenuous propaganda and nonsense.