According to the NAACP, democracy will be destroyed if the NFL continues to license games to be broadcast on Fox. Citing the racism of Fox News, which doesn’t broadcast football games, the increasingly irrelevant civil rights group demanded that the league cut all ties with the network. Fox however has lots of money and the NAACP only has racial grievance so the NFL went ahead and renewed their contract with the network.
USA Today reports:
The NAACP sent a blistering letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking the league not to allow Fox to use it as a bargaining tool during upcoming rights fees negotiations, and thus help fund Fox News, which the NAACP called “a uniquely destructive force” that “foments racism, undermines public health recovery from the pandemic, and repeatedly attacks the legitimacy of last year’s Presidential election.”
The letter, sent to Goodell from Derrick Johnson, the president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, on March 9, and obtained by USA TODAY Sports, also says in part that “the NFL’s programming should not be used as a bargaining tool for Rupert Murdoch to help fund Fox News’ hatred, bigotry, lies and racism.”
“It is immensely perturbing that the NFL would consider extending its relationship with Fox, especially after the January 6th insurrection on our Capitol. The NFL should not be used as a bargaining tool to help fund Fox News’ racist and dangerous programming,” said Johnson.
I thought liberals were blaming the “deadly armed Capitol insurrection” on Trump. How did Fox News suddenly get blamed for this? Also, it was all of the liberal media outlets that falsely reported this mild protest as a deadly armed insurrection, so if being fake news is a disqualifier for landing an NFL broadcast contract, NBC, ABC, and CBS are out.
“Fox News has gone far and beyond to disinform its viewers, inciting hate, bigotry, and ultimately threatening American democracy. We have grave concerns with the NFL’s contract renewal with Fox, and we look forward to having a serious conversation,” Johnson said.
Fox has been broadcasting NFL games since 1994 and somehow democracy has survived all this time.
As much as the NFL loves pretending they are woke, money is the only thing they really care about because:
The NFL did not immediately return a request for comment.
The NFL did respond in another way, however. It announced a mega-deal on Thursday afternoon with television partners CBS, Fox, NBC, and ESPN/ABC, also, the league shifted its Thursday night package to Amazon Prime.
If the NAACP wants to be outraged over something, how about the league putting its Thursday Night Football games on a terrible streaming service? This won’t destroy democracy, but it will piss off a lot of football fans. I’d be willing to bet there are many black people who don’t have an Amazon Firestick and who can’t figure out how to make the Internet work on their TV.
Reportedly the NFL and Fox signed a long-term deal worth $2.25 billion a year. The NAACP couldn’t quite match that sum with their indignation and fussiness.
Just about a month ago democrats were demanding that cable and satellite providers drop Fox News and now the NAACP tried to tank Fox Sports. It must be bad news to The Purge that money is more important than their silly attempts to censor all differing opinions.
