Anyone ekse remember years ago, the NFL pulled a Super Bowl out of Phoenix, because Arizona at that time did not have a state holiday for Martin Luther King?
Arizona did eventually honor Martin Luther King, and has been awarded super bowls since.
Point is, this politicization has been going on for a long time.
Good luck to sports, because if they insist that their fans must be liberal, on whatever the issue of the day is, they are going to lose quite a few fans .