Super Bowl end zones won’t read ‘end racism’ for first time since 2021

Super Bowl end zones won’t read ‘end racism’ for first time since 2021

The NFL has opt­ed not to fea­ture the phrase “end racism” on the end zones at the Cae­sars Super­dome in New Orleans this com­ing Super Bowl.

“End racism” has been sprayed on the field for the last four Super Bowl games. This year, it will be replaced with the phras­es “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us.” Recent events prompt­ed the change, accord­ing to NFL spokesman Bri­an McCarthy.

“The Super Bowl is often a snap­shot in time, and the NFL is in a unique posi­tion to cap­ture and lift the imag­i­na­tion of the coun­try,” McCarthy said in a state­ment. ” ‘Choose Love’ is appro­pri­ate to use as our coun­try has endured in recent weeks wild­fires in south­ern Cal­i­for­nia, the ter­ror­ist attack here in New Orleans, the plane and heli­copter crash near our nation’s cap­i­tal, and the plane crash in Philadel­phia.”

Hel­mets also used to fea­ture “end racism” decals. These have been more reg­u­lar­ly trad­ed out with phras­es such as “stop hate,” “choose love,” and most recent­ly, “be love.” Play­ers always had the choice to tog­gle between phras­es.

This will be the third con­sec­u­tive Super Bowl for the Kansas City Chiefs. The Philadel­phia Eagles didn’t make the cut last year, so this will be the sec­ond time they face off against the Chiefs in their five Super Bowl appear­ances.

Whichev­er team wins the game that ends the NFL sea­son is tra­di­tion­al­ly invit­ed to the White House after­ward to receive con­grat­u­la­tions from the pres­i­dent in per­son. The Eagles were the favorite team of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s pre­de­ces­sor, for­mer Pres­i­dent Joe Biden.

When the Eagles last won the Super Bowl in 2018, Trump did not invite them to the White House. Instead, Trump held an event where the U.S. Marine Band and the Army Cho­rus per­formed the nation­al anthem on the White House South Lawn. He sang along with his hand over his heart and encour­aged all to stand for the nation­al anthem, which was an obvi­ous slight to the league, which at the time was com­bat­ting play­ers kneel­ing dur­ing the anthem. None of the Eagles knelt dur­ing any game that sea­son or since.

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This year, Trump is root­ing for the Chiefs, accord­ing to his con­grat­u­la­to­ry posts to them. On Sun­day, he will become the first sit­ting pres­i­dent to attend a Super Bowl. For­mer first lady Jill Biden was in atten­dance when the Eagles last appeared in the Super Bowl in 2023

Both teams had very sim­i­lar sea­sons. The Chiefs had a 15–2 record, and the Eagles held strong at 14–3. The odds of either team win­ning the Super Bowl are even­ly split.