NFL, We Don’t Believe You, You Need More People

Marvin DeBose
3 min readFeb 8, 2021
An “End Racism” message in the end zone at Arrowhead Stadium | Jamie Squire | Credit: Getty Images

The NFL is really trying hard to clean up their image, apparently, they aren’t trying hard enough.

When I first heard that the NFL was going to have National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman perform at the Super Bowl, something felt off to me. It felt off in the same way that it felt when I first heard that they put the phrase “End Racism” in the end zones of various NFL stadiums.

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Marvin DeBose

Philadelphia, born & raised. Writer, reader, part-time runner. Edinboro University, Class of 2011. Bylines: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Blavity, Philly Tribune.