‘The era of blackmail’: Has the NFL been forced to be gay?



While major corporations like Apple have shocked the world by refraining from changing their entire brands to rainbow colors during Pride Month, the Alphabet Mafia still seems to have the NFL in a chokehold.

Out of the 32 teams, only nine remained silent as we entered June.

However, people like former Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant are not keeping silent either.

In a post on X, Bryant reacted to an NFL promo that makes claims like “football is gay,” “football is lesbian,” and “football is transgender.”


“These are wild statements to make.. excuse my silliness,” Bryant wrote, adding, “I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things. I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right.”

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes he knows why — despite the increase in voices speaking out against the NFL’s obsession with LGBTQ issues — the league still refuses to back down from throwing its own Pride parade.

“We’re living in the era and the age of blackmail, and maybe we’ve always lived in the era and age of blackmail, but now everyone, and even institutions, are being blackmailed,” Whitlock explains.

“The NFL has been blackmailed by the concussion controversy. The manufactured concussion controversy has Roger Goodell and the National Football League and their ownership group on their knees,” he continues.

“The mainstream legacy media drove this concussion narrative and focused all this attention on head injuries in the National Football League as a way of pressuring the NFL, which is the leader of all American sports, which is the tastemaker for all of American sports,” he adds.

Whitlock believes that this is how the NFL was pressured to “adopt all the woke leftist Marxist agenda and messaging.”

“How can we get the NFL on board with Black Lives Matter? How can we get the NFL on board with the LGBTQIA+ silent P Alphabet Mafia?” Whitlock mimics. “We keep distorting and focusing on concussions in the media, and then we offer them, ‘Hey, we’ll back off the concussion conversation. We know we’ve created and manufactured this whole deal. We’ll back off of it if you’ll hop on board with the BLM LGBTQIA+ silent P Alphabet Mafia.’”

“And that’s what has happened,” he adds.

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Ex-NFL star rejects league's 'wild' support for Pride Month: 'Football is none of these things'



A former NFL star receiver rejected the LGBTQ+ messaging from the league in celebration of Pride Month, and many on the left were outraged.

Dez Bryant retired from professional football in 2020 and had played for the Dallas Cowboys for eight years before moving on to other teams. On Monday, he made his thoughts known about the Pride Month campaign the league was pushing.

'I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things. I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right.'

Bryant posted video of the NFL ad onto his social media post and added his commentary.

"Football is gay. Football is queer. Football is transgender.. these are wild statements to make..excuse my silliness," wrote Bryant, quoting the ad.

"I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things," he added. "I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right."

Many of the teams in the league have posted in support of Pride Month, but not all of them have kneeled to the agenda.

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After getting some criticism from the left for what he wrote, Bryant tried to further explain his position.

"It’s gay players in the NFL..but forcing it in people's faces..especially children..can send the wrong message," he wrote. "Football is a real community, like the gay community. Imagine telling gays they have to advocate for straight people..they probably would have a problem."

Bryant later lambasted people posting fake rumors on social media.

"I hate social media at times because people post fake positive things all the time and get bothered whenever folks have a real conversation," he wrote. "I bet the goofy fake woke people have the most skeletons in their closet."

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