It’s Wednesday and the second day of September. Welcome to another Daily Broadside.

Our country is under siege by anti-American ingrates who hate our system of government, our people and our way of life. They tell us plainly that they want to “burn it down” and replace it with socialism, which is one step removed from full-blown communism, which is about as far as you can get from our historical Christian roots.

They don’t have their greedy little fingers fully on the levers of power (yet) but they are about as close as they have ever been. For decades their agents have been indoctrinating mush-headed children who were raised with low expectations and can’t think for themselves. Now the mis-educated offspring of our woke universities are in many of our societal institutions such as government, education, business, the sciences, religion, law, health care, mass media and sports.

Sports. Interesting how our sports leagues are being corrupted these days by the religion of Woke. I read that the NFL will now allow players to display the names of victims of police violence or “systemic” racism. It’ll be on the white helmet padding on the back of their helmets, where “names of specific persons will be easy to see when TV cameras capture close-up images of players on the field.” Yippee.

The names will come from an approved list, of course, and include the likes of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. This is similar to what the NBA did when it approved players to replace their last names on their jerseys with “social justice” words or phrases.

The approved list includes “Anti-Racist,” “Ally,” “Say Her Name,” “I Can’t Breathe,” “Enough,” “Black Lives Matter,” and “How Many More.”

Will the NFL allow players to wear little white boy Cannon Hinnant’s name? How about the white stabbing victim of Jayvon Hatchett? Or maybe we can get the name of the white guy bludgeoned by a black man with a brick the other day in Baltimore. No? #WhiteLivesDon’tMatter, right?

I’ll tell you what doesn’t matter. The NFL. The NBA.

“The lockdown will cost the NBA at least $1 billion in revenue, and an MLB study earlier this year projected a potential revenue decline of $4 billion from the shortened season,” City Journal noted. “And the poor TV ratings suggest that many sports viewers have missed watching NBA games less than the league might have anticipated.”

Note the contorted last sentence and let me fix it for you: “Poor TV ratings suggest former fans aren’t interested in being insulted by multi-millionaires playing adolescent games.”

As I’ve said before, we can live without professional sports. The tragedy is that professional sports are one more thread being ripped out of our national fabric. The Super Bowl has become a uniquely American holiday, with more than 114 million people tuning into the game at its peak in 2015. It created a shared experience that we could enjoy with our close friends and talk about it with colleagues in the office the next day. But it, too, has become a flash-point for conflict, so we don’t share whether we watched or not.

On the upside, perhaps our citizens will reconsider what they’ve allowed to bind them together. Sports are one thing; God is another, and much more transcendent.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Hebrews 10:23-25

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