Posted on 05/10/2020 8:18:18 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A while ago — the exact year escapes me — I determined that someway, somewhere, in some manner or some fashion, most of us in America had somehow lost our minds.
The nation is on tilt of late because we must stay home for a long, long time because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, also known to Alabamians and Georgians as the Don’t Even Think of Messing With the SEC Football Schedule pandemic.
Anyway, apparently everyone — and when I say “everyone,” I mean anyone within shouting distance of Skip Bayless or Stephen. A Smith — wants sports back ASAP.*
*Incidentally, speaking of shouting distance, does Shannon Sharpe ever whisper?
Last week, the ESPN Coronavirus Lockdown Fan Study — that is its actual title, I swear on Chris Berman’s bible of nicknames — surveyed 1,004 adult sports fans, and 76 percent were in favor of sports returning even if spectators cannot be in the stands.
My buddy, Houston sports media bon vivant Fred Faour, wrote that the 24 percent against sports without fans “are what we respectfully call ‘dumbs.’” Faour wants any action back, like, yesterday and said, “I truly miss being in the stands for Roughneck games.”**
**He is referring to the Houston Roughnecks, an almost professional football team that played a total of five games in the late, unlamented second iteration of the XFL.
Meanwhile, former president Barack Obama, during a recent chat with former aides, said that the lack of sports is “driving me nuts.”
Now, Faour and Obama are two sharp guys — well, at least Obama is — but I am disappointed by their simplistic and shortsighted apocalyptic vision of a sports-free Sports Nation.
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just give me a baseball game at 3pm like the old days, or 1 and 7 I can’t live with a double header every day for July to Sept
It is okay to go sit in a dark movie theatre two seats apart but not at a baseball or football stadium?
we don’t need ore government in our lives
they’ve phrucked this up incredibly bad
its now a civic duty to not ever listen to them and their freaking ‘experts’ again
these are different things; we can want sports back while we hope the virus kills espn dead once and for all.
And give me a college football game that kicks off in the early afternoon--not at 7:45 PM in Colorado in November.
There’s nothing so politically biased as professional sports. I was a huge San Antonio Spurs fan for decades. But over the last several years the despicable Anti-American antics of Coach Popovich has disgusted me. I’m doing perfectly well without sports in my life.
correction CAN live with a double header.
Obama is a “sharp guy”?
He isnt even a sharp crayon.
Freedom is not contingent on the retromingent blowhards at a worthless rag owned by a capitalist named Bezos. Do we need less Amazon? Let the clown answer that and see what happens.
Obama is a “sharp guy”?
He isnt even a sharp crayon.
I would have to agree. We should be spending that time fighting the left.
We have become Communist China. No joy, just a gray sterile existence.
Washington Post 6 months from now -
Why are Americans so fat?! What social programs and government funding can we start to help encourage dieting!
Why are black people more afflicted by obesity than whites and why does the government not care?!”
A lot of people make a lot of money on sports. A lot more people lose a lot of time on it.
“The pandemic has reminded us: We don’t need more sports in our lives — we need less”
I didn’t need the pandemic - the NFL players taking knees told me EXACTLY the same.
What this experience has brought into focus is how much of our lives and economy is made up of frivolous stuff. Sports, entertainment, eating out, nail salons, vacations...
Not criticizing any of it - just an observation.
We’ve climbed quite a ways in Maslow’s pyramid of “needs”.
Well that ship has sailed. I think we all know that all sports times of games are for television not for favorable weather conditions.
The entrance ramps, beer lines, restroom lines, exit lines. ...those are your troubled congestion points. ...
Then there are the players too. ...dugout, on the bases, practices. ...
Glad I don’t make the calls on this one. Pray for President Trump.
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