NFL season kicks off with nod to social injustice at Chiefs-Texans contest

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.

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.

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