Falcons Fans Want Future To Sing The National Anthem To Troll Russell Wilson

As you very likely already know, Russell Wilson plays football for the Seattle Seahawks. He is married to Ciara, a professional singer. Prior to their marriage, Ciara was engaged to a rapper named Future and the two of them have a child together. Future is from Atlanta, the home of the Falcons, who host the Seahawks this weekend in an NFL playoff game.

Now that you’ve got all that, some dude thought it would be funny to have Future perform the national anthem before the Seahawks-Falcons game as a joke at the expense of Wilson or to mess with his head.

The petition has a goal of 1,000 signatures (because that makes it legally binding in Georgia?) and is at 821 as of the time of these keyboard strokes. The explanation of the existence of the petition is written in childlike prose and with code only a linguistics professor (or a millennial) can explain.

Russell Wilson is a chilly pimp. I don’t f#&k with him because he reminds me of Eriq LaSalle’s character, Darryl Jenks, the heir to the Soul Glo empire in Coming to America. Future coincidentally was engaged to and reportedly laced Russell’s current wife in Gucci flip flops. I believe that if Future sings the national anthem, Russell Wilson, the Seahawks, and Soul Glo will all take Ls. This would be great for humanity but especially America, which we all know is going through a very tough time right now.

Maybe it’s because The Martian has been on HBO every day for months, but I read “Russell Wilson is a chilly pimp” the same way that guy says, “Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.” Personally, I think being a chilly pimp sounds cool, but maybe it’s not, because the person who wrote this uses a Future song reference and Coming to America to disparage Wilson and Ciara.

OK, full disclosure, I don’t get what’s happening here.

But there is a very useful sociological educational moment here, and it’s probably something you know already — men think the best way to rattle another man is to point out his wife or girlfriend had sex with someone else before they got together. No kidding, Edwyn H, the guy who created the petition. Do you really think Wilson isn’t aware of the fact that Future and Ciara have had sex? THEY HAVE A CHILD TOGETHER. Future singing a song before a game he plays isn’t going to alert him to new information.

Also, she left him for Wilson, so if anything, shouldn’t inviting Future to the game rattle Future?

Anyway, the Falcons aren’t going to do this no matter how many signatures this petition gets.

Now, if the Packers had brought in Captain & Tennille to sing the national anthem on a boat in front of Odell Beckham on Sunday, that’s funny. This is just lazy and dumb.