The National Football League is not abandoning identity politics anytime soon, Roger Goodell declared, in stark contrast to numerous corporate giants that have been running away from DEI for the past few months.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy has put to rest rumors that the league is considering a ban on the emerging 'Trump dance' phenomenon, saying 'there's no issue' with players doing it.
NFL and NCAA football players and UFC fighters celebrating with the 'dance' is a dramatic reversal from a few years ago when athletes protested during the national anthem.
At a training camp press conference, Catholic NFL kicker Harrison Butker was asked about his now famous pro-family remarks during a Benedictine College commencement address, to which he replied that 'I stand by what I said.'
Catholic NFL mega-star Harrison Butker has signed a deal with the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs that will make him the highest-paid kicker in league history.
Sales indicate that female fans, one of the groups most 'attacked,' according to the Kansas City Chiefs player's detractors, did not hear in his remarks what leftist wanted them to.
The left-wing Change.org petition is not expected to sway Kansas City Chiefs management, but its success so far will be used by left-wing media to depict the NFL player and his Catholic values as fringe.