Wow. The NFL looks like they are on their way out. I wonder how Bill Belichick and Tom Brady feel.
Brady and Belichick are seen as “white conservative men who place success and winning over the “justice of the oppressed”.
What would Lombardi do? What would Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs, and the other legends do?
Brady does whatever his wife tells him to do. He is a fair weather friend.
While not a direct answer to your post, I can't help but thinking that Bill B. and Tom must reflect on the fact that, while they are well paid, Matt Lauer was getting around $25 million/year. I think they work a lot harder than Matt did... at least than Matt did at his actual job, rather than his, er, hobby.
“What would Lombardi do? What would Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs, and the other legends do?”
All those people you mentioned are white. They don’t matter anymore.
Brady was front and center with the whole locking arms stuff.
Bellicheat and Kraft both rolled over and heaped praise on the snowflake players and their "protest".
The entire Patriot organization trashed DJT out of the gate. They are no better than the worst of the NFL.