The NFL will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by displaying \u201cChoose Love\u201d in the end zones and on helmet decals for all divisional round playoff games this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cChoose Love\u201d and \u201cIt Takes All of Us\u201d will appear on opposite end zones at the Super Bowl next month. Host teams will select the end zone stencils for the conference championship games.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr. King\u2019s message continues to guide how we show up in meaningful moments across the league,\u201d said Anna Isaacson, SVP of social responsibility for the NFL. “‘Choose Love\u2019 has become an important and widely embraced message for our teams because it reflects the values Dr. King championed \u2014 dignity, empathy, and a commitment to our shared humanity. Bringing it forward in the Divisional Round and again at Super Bowl LX reflects that continued relevance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChoose Love\u201d was first introduced in 2022 when the Bills adopted it as a unifying message for their community after a shooting in Buffalo. NFL teams have widely embraced the stencil, and it was featured at the Super Bowl last year following an attack in New Orleans.<\/p>\n
The NFL has used on-field social justice messaging for the past six seasons. Teams featured an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: \u201cEnd Racism,\u201d \u201cStop Hate,\u201d \u201cChoose Love\u201d or \u201cInspire Change.\u201d \u201cIt Takes All of Us\u201d was stenciled in the opposite end zone for all games.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Las Vegas Raiders secured the No. 1 overall pick after going 3-14. Behind them, there are more than a dozen teams looking to change their fortunes heading into next season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by displaying \u201cChoose Love\u201d in the end zones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-127443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}