Posted on 10/23/2019 4:33:05 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Big TV contracts.
When they started getting paid millions of dollars while not only contributing nothing of positive value to society, but contributing negative value.
When they took the boot off the throat of a Lebensraum James. He's not the first, maybe Ali was, but his commercial endorsements were nightmare fuel and just short of worthless.
The first basekeetball player to put the bone in his nose, run his mouth, and still get sneaker endorsements was probably Rodman.
The first uber-Leftist nutroot to get paid for being a non-playing, gold-bricking nutroot has to be Colon Krappernickerbocker.
Show's over. Pro sport is finished except for the people who enjoy the sideshows.
They provide entertainment and fitness.
Athletics is fitness.
It is good to be fit.
Not football sense, but basketball.
Exercise is good for the heart, isn’t it?
Do you think that is why LeBron only has 3 titles, while Michael Jordan has 6?
Jordan never discussed politics.
Knock Knock They are owned.Bought and paid for Kneel down-tow the line.
The Internet sears with outrage over ESPN’s bestowal of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on the Athlete Formerly Known as Bruce Jenner rather than giving it to Lauren Hill, the utterly courageous 19-year-old woman who battled inoperable brain cancer while playing basketball for Mount St. Joseph’s.
Caitlyn Jenner Wins Arthur Ashe Courage Award - 2015 ESPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=nd0WAWe3C1o
Happened in sports and everywhere else simply because conservatives chose to live their lives privately and mind their own business, while Leftists felt compelled to take control over the lives of those same conservatives.
What liberalism hath wrought.
You clearly have not been paying attention over the past few decades. I stopped watching professional sports decades ago because of their leftist focus.
JoMa
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