Conservatives online have spoken out against the NFL after the league punished San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa for busting out a “Make America Great Again” hat while photobombing an NBC Sports postgame interview with quarterback Brock Purdy. As a result of his subtle endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump, Bosa was slapped with an over $11,000 fine.
As a result, Trump supporters were less than pleased with the move, some vowing to boycott the league. “I won’t be watching the NFL this week. Not a single game. Not a single play. The woke NFL is trying to run Nick Bosa out of the league like Tebow because he expressed a belief they didn’t like. Disgusting. Boycott the NFL!” conservative influencer Nick Adams said.
Specifically, some took issue with a seeming double standard, where it was suggested that Collin Kaepernick’s woke political statements in past years should have faced similar punishments from the NFL. “Where were these fines when Colin “Woke” Kaepernick was making political statements from the field every week!” one person commented.
Others implied the rules should be consistent and equally applied across the board and the players should just focus on the game. “That’s not gonna happen. The problem is the rules are not equal for everyone. If a player appears with BLM should be sanctioned too. I got the feeling that this is going to change very soon.
Everyone is sanctioned or no one,” one user wrote.
However, in a positive sign for conservative expressions in the NFL, the league recently announced that it would not punish players for performing the viral Trump dance as a celebration. This led sports commentator Stephen A. Smith to sound off on “woke culture” and “cancel culture” over the fact that a statement had to be issued about the dance in the first place.
“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 said. “It doesn’t require a response from the league. So why was it necessary this time?” He continued, ““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. This is America. Donald Trump won the election, rather convincingly, I might add.
The ESPN personality explained that he is frustrated with woke ideology and cancel culture, which he claims played an undeniable role in Trump’s election. “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,” he said.
Smith said, “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.”
Watch Bosa flash the MAGA hat below:
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