Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs offered a symbolic gesture of support for racial injustice ahead of the NFL's first game of the season Thursday.
about the song playing this season, that the gesture falls short of meaningful support for racial justice initiatives. The move is"pandering" Rodney Coates, a football fan and sociologist and a professor at Miami University in Ohio, said.
"There are so many ways to show its commitment," Coates said."If it were serious it would open pathways for opportunities in a number of ways. But a song? No.”Thursday night amid a pandemic, raging wildfires and ongoing protests for racial justice. The game looked and sounded different from any other in recent memory. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes throws as quarterback Jordan Ta'amu watches during a training camp practice in Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 27.The Chiefs allowed only a smattering of socially distanced fans into their stadium, long regarded as one of the NFL's loudest and most raucous. Because of the coronavirus, only 15,895 spectators, as announced by the team, were allowed in the stands,Even with so few fans in attendance, Mahomes said he was grateful for even that shred of normalcy. "It's fun to be back out here the off-season that we had as a world, as a nation, and to be doing something normal again," Mahomes said."Obviously we got to have some fans out here."will see games that will look totally foreign to any ever played before this season. Deshaun Watson #4 of the Houston Texans looks to pass against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on in Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 10, 2020.
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