The Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League are facing a lot of backlash from fans decrying the team’s support for the LGBTQ+ agenda.

The team said that it would have the “Cowgays” group sing the national anthem at the game Thursday against the New Jersey Devils and would feature a nonbinary LGBTQ+ country music artist.

‘Gross. Why associate your brand with bringing sexual experiences to a freaking hockey game?’

“Preds fans — Put your paws up!” the official account for Bridgestone Arena said in a post Wednesday. “We’re celebrating PRIDE in Smashville tomorrow night, March 26, with appearances by Medium Build, The Cowgays, Brady Riley & more!”

The post included a rainbow emoji.

The post immediately got negative responses from people objecting to politics being shoehorned into a sports event.

“A team called the Predators with a fan base nicknamed ‘Smashville’ is having a pride night during a game with the Devils, and a band called the ‘Cowgays’ is singing the national anthem. There is so much material here and none of it makes you look good,” former Texas state Rep. Matt Rinaldi responded.

“This isn’t a family-friendly environment. NHL has to stop pushing this radical LGBTQ agenda,” Jon Root of OutKick replied.

“Entirely unnecessary and inappropriate. Have some class, decency and decorum. Have some respect for your customers,” another user said on the X platform.

“I love the predators but I absolutely will never celebrate a sin nor will I ever go to a game where they do celebrate it. May God have mercy on your soul,” another detractor replied.

“Gross. Why associate your brand with bringing sexual experiences to a freaking hockey game?” another post reads. “No hate for gay people but let’s leave all sexual innuendo and celebrations for more appropriate events. This is just weird.”

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“GAY PREDATORS! YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS S**T UP!” one insightful critic said.

The team will also raise funds by selling specialty Pride jerseys and auctioning player nameplates. The proceeds will be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations.

The Predators, the Devils, and the National Hockey League did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Since most of the media outright ignores or denies President Trump’s wins since taking office last year, BlazeTV host John Doyle is taking a moment to appreciate them.

And the first win is the homicide rate.

“This is obviously something that America has struggled with, we’ll say, in the advent of diversity, civil rights law, police brutality, things of that nature,” Doyle explains.

According to the Council on Criminal Justice, the U.S. homicide rate is at a projected 125-year low, which is the lowest level in recorded history at four per 100,000 people.

“So yeah, we are very optimistic about the crime thing because nobody trusts the Democrats to actually handle that properly,” he says.

“Another thing that I think has been very good for us, the construction of the patriot border wall,” he adds, pointing out that Trump is making good on one of his major first-term promises.

“Perhaps his most famous campaign promise,” Doyle says, pulling up a recent article titled “A massive border wall expansion is underway” by the Washington Post.

The article details Trump’s $46.5 billion plan to build hundreds of miles of new southern border barriers at a pace of three new miles per week.

“Being the Washington Post, it’s going to spend a lot of time complaining about environmental impacts. But … this is obviously a major victory for the Trump administration, for America,” he continues. “It’s proof that we are indeed heading in the right direction.”

But there’s more good where that came from.

“Another thing, which is immediately affecting American patriots: rent. Rent prices. They are actually at the national level beginning to decrease. It’s unbelievable,” he says, pointing out that according to the reventure app — which is a real estate data and analysis platform — rent prices are down across the country.

“As rent prices decrease and renting becomes cheaper than owning, like theoretically, selling prices on homes will also be forced to drop,” Doyle says.

And to Doyle, these wins have crowned Trump “the true patriarch of the nation.”

“He will make our cities great again,” he adds.

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Opponents of the controversial Rooney Rule in the National Football League got a powerful boost from the attorney general of the state of Florida.

AG James Uthmeier posted a video Wednesday explaining that the rule requiring teams to interview minority candidates for open hiring positions violates Florida laws against discrimination.

‘We are putting Commissioner Roger Goodell on notice: the Rooney Rule violates Florida law, and it must stop.’

“Professional sports are a visible example of a merit-based system, but through the Rooney Rule, the NFL requires its teams to use race-based hiring practices,” Uthmeier wrote on the post on social media. “We are putting Commissioner Roger Goodell on notice: the Rooney Rule violates Florida law, and it must stop.”

He demanded that the NFL suspend the Rooney Rule and threatened legal action if it refused.

“Florida law is clear. Hiring decisions cannot be based on race, and the Rooney Rule mandates race-based interviews and incentivizes race-based decisions. That’s discrimination,” he added.

Former “SportsCenter” commentator Jemele Hill appeared to be outraged by the demand.

“So just to be clear: Florida is trying to challenge the NFL on the Rooney Rule when there are 3 Black coaches in the NFL, two Black offensive coordinators, and four Black general managers,” she wrote on social media.

“This is out of 32 teams. It seems like the system has worked swimmingly well for white guys, so … what’s the issue?” she added.

Others have spoken out against the rule, including BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock.

“The Rooney Rule inspired, encouraged, fosters racism. The Rooney Rule has been a mistake and needs to end. The Rooney Rule was the NFL saying, ‘Yep, we’ll hire any player. We’ll pay any of these black players $10, $15, $20, now $50 and $60 million a year. But you know what? When it comes to the head coaching position and these executive positions, we’re racist,'” Whitlock said in Aug. 2025.

“It hasn’t ended racism,” he added. “It hasn’t ended the allegations of racism. It’s actually inspired them.”

RELATED: Chicago Bears GM calls NFL’s race-based hiring ‘strange’ as league struggles with DEI incentive

“NFL teams and their fans don’t care about the race of the coaching staff. They want a merit-based system that gives their team the best chance to win,” Uthmeier concluded.

In February, Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles admitted that he didn’t see the rationale for the rule.

“I’ll be honest. I think it is a little strange,” he said. “I mean, at the end of the day, you should want to develop your staff regardless of the color of their skin.”

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A Chicago Democratic leader is slamming his own party, including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, for ignoring the Biden-Harris administration’s role in the nation’s immigration crisis.

During a Fox News interview shared on Wednesday, Alderman Raymond Lopez reacted to the recent murder of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, who was fatally shot while out on a walk with friends in Chicago.

‘We will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don’t want to look as though we’re capitulating to him.’

The suspect in the attack, Jose Medina-Medina, is an illegal alien from Venezuela who was captured by U.S. Border Patrol agents in May 2023 and released into the country under the leadership of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. One month after his release, he was arrested in Chicago for allegedly shoplifting, but he was released from custody once again.

“Her death was 100% avoidable. And the culmination of the choices made here, in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois, to protect noncitizens even when they choose to engage in dangerous criminal behavior — that mindset has to change,” Lopez told Fox News.

Lopez accused Pritzker of wrongly blaming President Donald Trump for Gorman’s death. The alderman made this comment in response to a clip of Pritzker from earlier in the week, where the governor attributed Gorman’s killing to “national failures.”

Pritzker claimed that Trump failed to “follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst” criminals unlawfully present in the U.S.

RELATED: Will Pritzker honor ICE detainer against illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old college student?

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“If you’re going to blame the federal government, then blame it where this problem began, which was under the Biden-Harris administration that allowed 15 million people from South America, Central America, and across the oceans to come through our southern borders, manipulate asylum, be poorly vetted, and then scattered to the seven winds of the United States,” Lopez told Fox News.

“I have yet to hear a single Democrat hold Biden and Harris accountable for what has happened,” he added.

RELATED: Chicago residents won’t get to vote on city’s sanctuary status after lawmakers block referendum

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Lopez explained that there are currently 2,000 high-priority targets in Chicago who are known dangers to the community, but noted that Democratic leaders “refuse to work” with Trump to remove them.

“We will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don’t want to look as though we’re capitulating to him,” Lopez stated.

Lopez has previously fought to roll back the city’s sanctuary laws to allow the Chicago Police Department to cooperate with federal immigration agents when illegal alien suspects have been arrested or convicted of certain crimes. He stated that his amendment to Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance “would NOT have protected” Medina-Medina from federal immigration enforcement.

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While criticizing opposition to the H-1B program, comedian Hasan Minhaj attempted to highlight the role of skilled foreign workers in fields like tech and engineering — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t having it.

“If you’re a Democrat, you would rather just allow foreigners to come in, exploit our system, abuse our system, rip off Americans, and steal American jobs. You would rather do that than just admit there’s a problem,” Gonzales says.

“And one of the biggest culprits of this type of gaslighting is Hasan Minhaj,” she adds, before playing a clip from the former “Daily Show” host’s latest YouTube video titled, “Why MAGA hates H-1B visas.”

“Now, the H-1B is under attack because MAGA has suddenly become obsessed with hating them,” Minhaj said.

Minhaj then played a clip of Jack Posobiec claiming that “India milks the H-1B system dry” and replaces “American workers in our own tech companies.”

Even Gonzales was featured in his video, where he chose a clip of her saying, “The only way to stop it for good is to end the H-1B program.”

“He just talks really fast and makes it seem like he understands the issue. But in the first minutes, he completely blew up his own argument,” Gonzales comments.

“H-1B visas are special visas granted to skilled foreign workers, mostly in STEM fields. I’m talking about science, tech, engineering, and math. And indians f**king dominate that s**t,” Minhaj said proudly.

“Of the 85,000 new H-1B visas issued a year, about 70% of them go to Indians. And since their creation in 1990, they have been a critical rung on the ladder to citizenship,” he continued.

“You just blew up your own argument. Correct. It is meant for skilled workers. Yes, that’s what the system is supposed to bring in — not for the endless farm of fake software engineers, not for the food service managers that we’re finding, not for administrative assistants, not for ice cream sales analysts, not for the ones that we have been seeing play out,” Gonzales explains.

“Here’s the other issue, Hasan. An immigrant visa is issued to a person wishing to live permanently in the United States, OK? A non-immigrant visa is issued to a person with permanent residence outside the United States — notice the word ‘permanent’ — but wishes to be in the United States on a temporary basis for tourism, medical treatment, business, temporary work, or study, as other examples,” she continues.

Minhaj also used a clip of the late Charlie Kirk explaining that when hiring for an organization, you should “prioritize merit,” which the comedian followed up by saying, “If America is all about letting the best rise to the top, how do you justify shutting down legal immigration? I mean, that’s anti-competitive.”

“So, it’s not anti-competitive. … They are replacing American jobs for cheaper labor,” Gonzales responds, pointing out that many of the jobs aren’t even hiring for “specialized skill sets.”

“I’m going to go out on a limb and tell you, I don’t need an Indian to come in and teach elementary school science in this country. It’s not anti-competitive. It’s gaming the system,” she says.

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