NFL Cancels Grammy Winner Victory Boyd’s National Anthem Performance over Her Vaccination Status

The National Football League has canceled Grammy Award winner Victory Boyd’s scheduled National Anthem performance after she refused the coronavirus vaccine for religious reasons.

In an email shared with The Epoch Times, NFL Senior Director for Media and Entertainment Events Seth Dudowsky to Victory’s father and manager, John Boyd, on August 31 that her vaccination status will make ineligible to perform the National Anthem.

“As I understand that Victory will not be fully vaccinated by the time of the Kickoff game, she would not have been able to comply with the terms of the Game Day Field Access Policy,” said Dudowsky. “And as a result, we, unfortunately, will not be able to invite Victoria to perform the national anthem at this year’s Kickoff game.”

Victory was slated to perform at the NFL’s Sept. 9 season-opening game in Tampa Bay at an open-air stadium. As a result of the cancellation, she will be denied the $20,000 performance fee. In the email, Dudowsky repeated the NFL’s policy that all “individuals accessing the playing field and surrounding sideline areas” be fully vaccinated:

Under the Policy, ‘fully vaccinated’ means 14 days have passed since the individual received the final dose required in the vaccine sequence, in accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This requirement is mandatory and fully complies with the laws applicable to the type of business relationship contemplated here, and we are not in a position to make an exception.

Neither the email nor The Epoch Times report specified if Boyd could submit a negative coronavirus test to sing the National Anthem, which would have taken place in the middle of an open-air field, far away from spectators. – READ MORE