Being a “Deplorable” I don’t get “wokeness.”

We read that indigenous protesters planned to protest against the Kansas City “Chiefs” team name outside the stadium where the Bowl was to be

Maybe someone could explain to me why this is insensitive but I doubt it.

Seems people would be happy to have their heritage recognized by a high-flying professional sports team.

Perhaps, it’s because some of our more elite hierarchy has been pounding it into the heads of people wanting to be offended about something - anything -that such names being used for decades are bad.

You know the type: the more “deboner” and “swayve” amongst us. (Maybe we should have spelled those words as debonair and suave.) Their “feelz” are ever so much more tender than a simple farm boy whose early chores included mucking out cowlots.

We read there has been an increase in Super Bowl interest this year, which the leagues need to increase the income to pay multi-million dollar contracts to highly skilled and trained professional athletes.

I’ll have to tell anyone interested, though, I didn’t watch, I hoped for a pleasant day so I could work in my little garden spot.

The Lid blog carried a report that said the National Football League needed Super Bowl LV to be a success in a big way, thanks in part to their unwillingness to address the issue of personal political statements and protests by players.

Rank-and-file Americans, which once comprised the majority of pro football’s fan base simply don’t care about the players’ personal prejudices.

Hint: The low turnout at games and on television is about more than the coronavirus pandemic.

Personal admission. We watched Super Bowl 1 on television. Also, we’d like to see Chiefs’ quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, pull off a win since he’s a former Texas TechBig12 star. But not enough to waste four or five hours in front of a TV screen watching big strong boys knock the soup out of each other.

I told you I’m a complete failure as a pop culture fan. Maybe people would regain their lost interest if the Chiefs reconfigured as The Deplorables.

Maybe we’d like to think that Americans as a rule would be more interested in regaining control of their government than any game.

With Super Bowl Tampa braces tor surge in sex trafficking

COMMENTARY BY: Clare Morell

[Clare Morell is an independent researcher specializing in effective criminal justice policies and most recently worked as an adviser to then-Attorney General Bill Barr at the U.S. Justice Department]

Expect human traffickers to exploit the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, this weekend.

While current COVID-19 restrictions will limit game attendance, there will still be 22,000 fans there, and with Tampa as the home city of the Buccaneers, one of the participating teams, there will be many more in town.

Traffickers are criminal economic enterprises who target the Super Bowl and other large-scale events to take advantage of the increased concentration of men, money, and parties in one geographic area.

Traffickers travel from all over the country and even internationally to bring in their victims for the event.

Most human traffickers are low-level operators, selling one, or maybe two, victims. They can make a lot of money by selling the victim over and over again.

At last year’s Super Bowl in Miami, police made 47 arrests, which led to the rescue of 22 victims. Additionally, eight buyers of sex trafficking and 34 accomplices were arrested.

Tampa already has the 12th-highest rate of calls per capita made to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. And Florida as a state has the third-highest rate of human trafficking cases reported.

The New York Daily News has called Tampa the “strip club capital” of the country. And with publicly advertised events like the “Stripper Bowl” taking place after the game (as it has the last few Super Bowls), there is certain to be increased sex trafficking.

Trafficking at large-scale events used to take place primarily at hotels and motels, but in recent years it has evolved to rental properties, time shares, Airbnb rentals, and even yachts. The vast and sprawling nature of these low-level trafficking enterprises can make the job of law enforcement combating it increasingly difficult.

On the demand side of the equation, would-be buyers also flock to the Super Bowl city, knowing there will be an abundant supply of sex for sale. They find their victims through the dark web or any of the numerous websites that advertise victims on the open internet.

A study of the 2014 Super Bowl found no less than 38 different websites advertising victims who showed indications of being a juvenile. That number has likely only increased.

The sheer volume of online ads in general, and especially around the Super Bowl, exceeds the capacity of any one law enforcement agency to respond at a level that would deter traffickers from coming to its jurisdiction.

Combating trafficking at large-scale events like the Super Bowl, therefore, requires significant advanced preparation. The host city’s law enforcement agencies spend 18 to 24 months preparing and will normally send a team to the Super Bowl city of the year before to observe.

Nonprofit organizations also provide training. The International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators has helped prepare host cities’ law enforcement agencies during the past five Super Bowls.

This past July and August, the association brought its law enforcement experts from past Super Bowls in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Miami to Tampa to share best practices and lessons learned.

And the local agencies in Tampa already have been targeting trafficking leading up to the big game. In January, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested 71 men for soliciting sex in “Operation Interception.”

In addition to preparation, another key component to combat trafficking is personnel. Trafficking is a personnel-intensive crime to fight. To recover a single victim, an entire multidisciplinary team is needed to carry out the operation, collect the evidence, conduct interviews, and provide care.