A spokesman for the NFL's online store, confirmed to ESPN that, over the past 24 hours, more Villanueva gear, including jerseys and name and number T-shirts, has been ordered than that of any other NFL player.**********
UPDATE: Seems no one could predict...
...that epidermally enhanced millionaire athletes protesting racism and white privilege might be a hard sell to their uber-patriotic blue collar base...
“The backlash, inadvertently, has still been bad but you can only imagine if guys had stepped out and did their own thing and that was what we were trying to avoid. It just didn’t come out that way.”And, apparently... they still don't get it.
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LAST WORD: Politics supercedes entertainment
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich stated on ESPN2 Monday that “white people have to be made to feel uncomfortable.”Perhaps Popovich, the highest paid coach in the NBA, at $11 million per season should try coaching for a year or two in the Zimbabwean Basketball association.
That might just fit the bill.
