Crikey, this raised a ruckus!
The NFL’s embrace of virtual signaling was alive and well in Australia, where it played its first-ever game. But in the lead-up to the sports event, there was a blond woman draped in fur, carrying a large twig, who performed a kind of tribal welcoming ceremony.
“To you, we pay our respects to your culture and heritage and those watching,” she said.
“We hope that you have enjoyed our celebration of honoring 60,000 years of our culture,” she told the crowd.
She then plucked a leaf to show that everyone was welcome.
Outkick founder Clay Travis shared the “insane” clip that can be watched below:
Australia’s first ever NFL game began with a land acknowledgment. This is insane. Australia also has a national sorry day where the country apologizes to the aborigines every year. If you think the US can’t get crazier, it can. pic.twitter.com/E5zuYY7XLR
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 11, 2026
Plenty of folks weighed in on the clip, including conservative author Matt Walsh, who slammed Australia for once being known as “tough and rugged.”
“Now the word ‘Australia’ is synonymous with gay bullsh*t like this,” Walsh posted. “Gay bullsh*t appears to be the country’s main export. Like Canada but with bigger spiders. What a shame.”
Walsh wasn’t alone in his disgust at perpetual virtue signaling that so obviously serves no other purpose other than politics.
They do this before all of their major sporting events in Australia.
They’ve completely bowed down to the woke agenda and given aboriginal groups a lot of power.
It’s a major warning for the United States. https://t.co/n9rziDsjji
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) September 11, 2026
Seriously fuck off
sick of this woke bullshit direction we are going and embarrassed as a Aussie— Rob
(@robirdie777) September 11, 2026
According to the following account (and others), the ‘ancient’ ceremony was concocted 50 years ago.
“There are no words in any of the 200 Aboriginal languages for ‘Welcome to Country Ceremony’. It is only referred to in English words. Ipso facto, if there were no words for it prior to colonisation, it didn’t exist”:
For the Americans reading this, this ‘ancient ceremony’ was invented 50 years ago.
There are no words in any of the 200 Aboriginal languages for ‘Welcome to Country Ceremony’. It is only referred to in English words. Ipso facto, if there were no words for it prior to…
— TheRoadknight (@RoadknightThe) September 11, 2026
— jurgen_meister (@jurgenmeister4) September 11, 2026
Journalist Robert Lusetich made a historical claim to justify the ceremony, which prompted Travis to ask the inevitable question: at what point does it stop?
At what point should people stop apologizing for things they had nothing to do with? My ancestors were slaves in ancient Rome. Should Italy apologize to me today?
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 11, 2026
According to the alleged Aboriginal woman in the video, we need only to go back 60,000 years.
