Fifteen weeks of the regular season, Monday night game, "San Francisco 49ers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers".

By all accounts, this game is highly anticipated, even on a par with the Christmas game that kicks off next week, and it will undoubtedly be a blockbuster before the playoffs arrive. Especially thanks to the gambling matchup of "Charles Davis VS Lu Ke", even Las Vegas came to join in the fun.

Las Vegas opened the game outside of the game:

After the game, the chance that Lu Ke will officially fire in front of the media; The probability that Charles will officially fire in the show: the probability that Lu Ke will mention a series of words such as "Charles", "victory", and "In-Your-Face" in the interview; Charles mentioned a series of phrases in the interview, such as "Chinese", "overrated", and "see you in the playoffs".

There were fifteen different small bets, and the maximum bet was set at a thousand dollars. It's more of a small game to entertain themselves internally, and it is also to prevent the two parties from betting through their relatives and friends, and then deliberately win the bet.

This small aspect shows that the words of this week's game have managed to spread throughout North America.

For the general public watching the excitement, this is definitely not more interesting; Even league officials paid attention, with Goodale saying in an interview, "It's nonsense, you still have to focus on the game."

But Goodall's admonition didn't work, but rather acted as a catalyst, and more and more players joined the discussion.

In addition to Charles, Lu Ke now has more opponents and, of course, more supporters. The Chinese-American quarterback is becoming a bright spot in the league.

For example, Tony Romo and Eli Manning, they are on Lu Ke's side, or rather, on the player's side.

Romo said in an interview, "Maybe the analyst commentator should do their job and look at Lu Ke's performance this season before speaking, instead of casually denying a player's efforts because of personal bias." In order to be able to perform well in the game, the hard work behind the players is absolutely unimaginable. ”

At the same time, he also gave Lu Ke a touch on his personal Twitter and made a gesture of "come on".

Cam Newton, Patrick Peterson, and Richard Sherman, for example, expressed disdain, believing that Lu Ke was just sensationalizing.

The most striking thing is not Newton or Peterson, but the full-fledged battery Sherman, "He's a clown, and he's been like that since the first day of rookie camp, he's even taken pictures of every rookie and uploaded them to the wall in an attempt to increase fan following." God, I've never heard of a player being so stupid. ”

"The doubts from Charles Davis may be a secret conspiracy for him, and now everyone is paying attention to him and even cheering for him. So, he's on fire, that's what he's for, and then what's next? I think it's starting to receive a lot of ads, right? I've heard that it's not just Jews who are business-minded. Sherman's big mouth was completely uncontrollable, and the more he spoke, the more outrageous it became, and there were even signs of getting out of control, and the rest of his words were cut off by reporters.

Now is on the cusp, the league officials have just made an example, they don't want to get into trouble, and if they are not careful, it may affect the qualification to report on the playoffs.

In the fourteenth week of the regular season, racism became a hot topic, and the league officials gave positive support and punished the Arizona Cardinals with the most severe measures, and vigorously completed the definition of the incident; Subsequently, the Cardinals also officially expressed their support for the league and determined that the matter will be thoroughly investigated and rectified in the future.

The whole thing is moving faster than you can imagine, and on the surface it seems to be calm, but the turbulent undercurrents are everywhere, and Roger Goodale and Lech Steinberg, as well as the senior management of the San Francisco 49ers, have definitely contributed to their joint push.

This means that the thirty-two teams have reached a consensus and officially accepted the arrival of Lu Ke, a Chinese quarterback, and next, Lu Ke will become a springboard to open the Asian market, perhaps, every team can get a piece of the pie; It also means that, at least at the official level, racist rhetoric and behaviour are condemned.

Not for racial equality, but for the common good.

Of course, the official position is only the official position, and there has always been discrimination and prejudice against ethnic minorities, and related contradictions and conflicts have emerged one after another. Putting aside the reactions of players in the league for the time being, at least netizens are still actively expressing their opinions and opinions.

On social networks, "Lu Ke-Skywalker" has once again become the object of heated discussion, and those negative emotions have been vented unscrupulously, and all kinds of bad remarks have begun to run rampant, which really makes people aware of the seriousness of the problem and the difficult situation faced by the Asian American community.

The Monday night game took place in this context, and Charles's gamble was further fermented in this background, so people's emotions were vented with this game and this gamble.

If you look at the comments of players such as Romo and Sherman, you can see their personal stance in a sense. They can't just make radical statements, but they can express their opinions through competitions.

Inadvertently, the meaning and weight of the game began to spiral out of control.

The more voices in support and the more voices in opposition, this means that the more intense the contradictions and conflicts, the more attention given to Lu Ke, and the more critical the game. Obviously, under the comprehensive catalysis of all factors, Lu Ke's performance in this game will largely determine people's direct perception of the identity of "Chinese quarterback".

Objectively speaking, even if the San Francisco 49ers win the game, it will not immediately reverse those stubborn prejudices and discrimination, which is still a long road to self-justification; But, if you imagine it the other way around, the situation is suddenly much more serious:

If the San Francisco 49ers win the game, but Lu Ke's individual performance is not good enough; Or worse, the San Francisco 49ers lost the game, even because of Lu Ke — like the home game against the Arizona Cardinals......

Then, what will greet Lu Ke will be overwhelming, tsunami-like doubts and provocations. is even more exaggerated, and may even endanger Lu Ke's personal safety. After all, none of those crazy races/clans/parts/subs and crazy fans could have predicted their excesses.

For everyone, this is a game of attention; And for Lu Ke, this is a game with no way out.

Everything is continuing to fuel this game.

On all major social media platforms, the topic of "49ers vs Steelers" has been on the hot trend, fully detonating the focus, and even further beyond the realm of football, when Leonardo DiCaprio and Candace Swanepel also retweeted the game-related topics on Twitter, the matter has completely stopped the car.

Leonardo is known to be a die-hard fan of the Los Angeles Lakers, second only to Jack Nicholson; But this time, Leonardo retweeted the topic of "49ers VS Steelers" and also wrote in a tweet, "Go-49ers-Go." ”

At this moment, everyone's eyes were projected: When did Leonardo become a fan of the San Francisco 49ers?

Some people just focus on the game itself, expecting a fierce battle of contradictions; Others are more concerned about the Chinese quarterbacks and the controversial topics derived from Chinese identity; Some people are curious because of Charles Davis's provocation and pay attention to the direction of the gamble; There are also people who are more curious about the interests behind the league's official position, why do the other 31 teams support Goode's official position?

But, whatever the reason, the result was that the Monday Night game received more attention than expected, even giving the illusion that the playoffs were already on the way.

Regardless of whether the game is won or lost, the onlookers are the winners, they can see the ugliness of the losers, they can see the embarrassment of the losing side, they can also see the performance of the Chinese quarterbacks, and the third-party fans outside of the two teams, they are always the winners, as if they are enjoying a grand and wonderful performance.

It is conceivable that the excitement on social networking platforms will heat up further as the time of the competition approaches!

Such a situation, such a trend, such a situation, absolutely no one expected, even Roger Goodall, even Charles Davis, even Lu Ke, they didn't expect that everything would suddenly erupt this week, and burst out with unimaginable chemistry.

In fact, it's a good thing for the league.

If Lu Ke can prove himself, then there will be no shackles and obstacles to opening up the Asian market on the North American continent; Even if it doesn't, the league can show the Asian community that they can get involved in football through Lu Ke's relentless spirit and form.

In other words, this is the first step in opening up the Asian market. The bigger the spectacle, the better the opportunity.

On and off the pitch, the buzz has taken all the spotlight, and even on Thursday night, the focus of discussion is still on Monday night, from fans to players, from journalists to commentators, from rugby fans to ordinary citizens, almost everyone knows that this week's Monday night game will be a spectacular matchup that no one wants to miss and no one should miss.

In such a situation, Charles, who is "within the alliance", naturally became the focus again.