As Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs’ Super Bowl champion quarterback (and the NFL’s top player) locked arms with his counterpart from the Texans, Deshaun Watson, in “a moment of silence dedicated to the ongoing fight for equality in our country,” a significant smattering of fans booed. Moments later, as the season kicked off, they got on with their Tomahawk chant. It was an an inauspicious start to the NFL’s season of reckoning.