Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks urges the NFL to abandon "elitist" messaging and instead honor the blue-collar families who are the true heart of American football.

Part of me held out a little hope that "woke" was dead when I caught the ad: "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans." It delivered a clever pushback against those who have been telling us for years what to think and see and say — and calling us racist or some other -ism if we don’t agree. But I knew this ad, despite its millions of views, would not be enough.

I read recently that the National Football League (NFL) is dead set on sticking with woke — as if we’ve ditched Jesse Jackson’s "keep hope alive" for "keep woke alive." All 32 teams must stencil one of the following four "social justice" messages into their end zones: "End Racism," "Choose Love," "Inspire Change" and "Stop Hate." "It Takes All of Us" will be the message in the opposing end zone.

Do you remember the NFL of the 1980s? The pure dominance of the Joe Montana-led 49ers? The sweetness of the Bears’ Walter Payton and the wildness of Jim McMahon? Lawrence Taylor flying around the corner for the Giants? And Bo Jackson carrying the Boz into the end........

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