CLAY TRAVIS: NFL end zones go woke but something else belongs there instead

The NFL is still stuck in the woke sports era. But most NFL fans would prefer the league return to simply focusing on football rather than use the field to make a political statement.

Clay Travis is the founder of the fastest-growing national multimedia platform, OutKick, which produces and distributes engaging content across sports and pop culture to millions of fans across the country. OutKick was created by Travis in 2011 and sold to the Fox Corporation in 2021. One of the most electrifying and outspoken personalities in the industry, Travis hosts OutKick The Show where he provides his unfiltered opinion on the most compelling headlines throughout sports, culture, and politics. He also makes regular appearances on FOX News Media as a contributor providing analysis on a variety of subjects ranging from sports news to the cultural landscape. 

Now, nine years removed from the gesture, most NFL fans would prefer the league return to simply focusing on football rather than use the field to make any sort of political statement at all. But while my preference is to remove messages like these from the field, if the NFL is going to use the end zone messages again this season, they should add one choice: give teams the option to include "Back the Blue."

Colin Kaepernick didn't just refuse to stand for the national anthem. He referred to police as modern-day slave catchers, wore socks to NFL practices emblazoned with police depicted as pigs, and said in his post-game press conferences that police were targeting Black people and regularly getting away with murdering them. These were all lies that served to harm the NFL's relationship with police but it wasn't just Colin Kaepernick who denigrated police.