Newsmax host **Greg Kelly** announced he was boycotting the NFL on Thursday, accusing football of going “woke” and helping to “ruin this country.”
On his show _Greg Kelly Reports_, the Newsmax host played a 2021 NFL [commercial](https://x.com/NFL/status/1409527004899201042) which declared, “Football is gay… Football is queer… Football is transgender,” before booing.
“I can’t stand the NFL. I’m boycotting football basically forever. They helped ruin this country, alright?” he said, as the chyron read, “NOW FOOTBALL IS WOKE”:
> I don’t need it and I don’t think you do either. There are so many better things we can do with our time. Look, I like football the sport. I played it as a little kid on the peewee league, you know? But what do we get out of it really, you know? Watching those guys get exercise, make money, get ahead in their lives, while we just sit there and watch them and bet our own money sometimes on it. I want out. By the way, I don’t trust it. Sometimes some of these Super Bowl games seem almost [rigged](https://www.mediaite.com/media/sports/jd-vance-warns-nfl-not-to-rig-league-for-super-bowl-wedding-for-travis-kelce-and-taylor-swift/), and I’ll tell you what’s really phony, the Kelce Travis Taylor Swift whatever the hell that thing is. It is fake. It is a strategy for I don’t know what.
Kelly then turned his sights on NFL commissioner **Roger Goodell**, accusing the millionaire of being a fake jock.
“I blame Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the football league. This guy will do anything to stay on top of money mountain, including get vaxxed,” protested Kelly. “Look at this, huh? See that? Covid vaxxed! That’s your problem, pal. I don’t like him, I don’t trust him, and at the moment of truth, what did he do? All that stuff about George Floyd, country was burning up, and he threw gas on that fire.”
The Newsmax host played a clip of Goodell expressing support for Black Lives Matter in 2020 and opposing “the systematic oppression of black people,” before continuing, “What does this wannabe jock know about any of that stuff? He knows about money. He knows about how to placate the mob.”
“I don’t like it, what he did, how he did it, and now we’re supposed to watch his games and make him and the owners richer? I’m out,” Kelly concluded. “I’m not gonna watch these games. I didn’t last season. There are other things to do with our time. You could learn a language on Sunday afternoons.”
Watch above via Newsmax.