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So long, sports -- nice knowin’ ya
American Thinker ^ | 3 Jul, 2020 | Richard K. Davis

Posted on 07/03/2020 5:09:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

Done and done!


41 posted on 07/03/2020 6:01:26 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: PghBaldy

Yup and “Doctor” refers to his doctorate in THEOLOGY


42 posted on 07/03/2020 6:03:14 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: MtnClimber

Two TV commercials in a row last night...only black actors used. Good for the actors, because I won’t begrudge anyone work. But the race-pandering companies that think they’ll get my business by shoving this stuff on my face? They can go to hell.

Also about to give up on “Wheel of Fortune” after last night’s gay male contestant that worked as a drag queen and who’s husband was in the audience. Sorry Pat and Vanna, I’m gonna miss you.


43 posted on 07/03/2020 6:05:04 AM PDT by moovova
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To: MtnClimber; MinuteGal

The only sports I watch are 1) Our local minor league baseball team. Their season was cancelled, and 2) our local dirt track. The grandstands are closed, but there’s a drive-in section. I went last Saturday; could hardly see the cars. It was dreadful.

I guess sporting events are done for this year. Oh well. I have a lot of reading to catch up on, and yard work.

Enjoy!


44 posted on 07/03/2020 6:06:45 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: MtnClimber

If you think about it...all sports are is passive entertainment.
You’re watching someone else do something.
you could actually do something instead...like a garden or go berry hunting or work on your lawn?


45 posted on 07/03/2020 6:07:27 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: MtnClimber

I love football. Nothing better than just chilling on a Sunday and watching a game or two. BUT...ever since the Colin Kaperdick fiasco, wife and I turned it off. No NFL purchases, no merchandise, no watching. Certainly not now, and NASCAR just lost me, and I don’t even know what NBA or soccer is???

Really, perhaps a BLM can explain this to me, the NFL is composed of 75% non white players, all of which play a game and make millions, have been treated like celebrities since high school, live in gated communities and spend money like a drunken sailor on leave. HOW IS THIS RACIST?

I believe most of them feel so guilty about their success that they “act” like they support all this nonsense, while beefing up their private security and smoking more dope.


46 posted on 07/03/2020 6:08:08 AM PDT by krug
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To: cincinnati65

Are the players going to kneel through the “Black National Anthem” too? I won’t be watching so they can go full marxist for all I care.


47 posted on 07/03/2020 6:08:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nascar was once considered White. That’s why it had to be destroyed.


48 posted on 07/03/2020 6:12:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (THERE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE A DEBATE TRUMP VS BIDEN! It will be the best show ever!)
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To: MtnClimber
Many assume that professional sports viewership has been in decline since the networks started their virtue signaling but viewership was in decline prior to the virtue signaling. Virtue signaling was just one desperate attempt to stem the bleeding.

More importantly, the return on investment for television advertising has been dropping as companies advertise on-line and directly to the existing customers. The advertisers are willing to pay less which means the teams get less.

The networks and advertisers know that whether you boycott professional sports or not, they're looking at continuing declines. They'll do anything they can do get a bounce out of a dead cat.

49 posted on 07/03/2020 6:17:13 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber
More time to spend at the gun range - a place blessedly free of virtue signaling. :)

A renaissance in shooting sports may be near.

50 posted on 07/03/2020 6:23:14 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: I want the USA back

The NHL is the next white mans sport on the chopping block.


51 posted on 07/03/2020 6:34:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Even in Canada, where now the NBA reigns supreme, Hockey is being portrayed as a game for white hicks.


52 posted on 07/03/2020 6:36:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Freee-dame

It has nothing to do with the song or its lyrics. It’s about trying to change the national anthem...


53 posted on 07/03/2020 6:36:43 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t be a watcher of players and doers.

Be a Player and Doer.


54 posted on 07/03/2020 6:44:04 AM PDT by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
"The so called black national anthem is a church hymn called “Lift Every Voice and Sing"

You mean 'every' voice matters?

55 posted on 07/03/2020 6:51:58 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
The so called black national anthem is a church hymn called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” And there is nothing wrong with the pursuit of healing from racial divides in this country.

When I first encountered "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is in the hymnal at our church, I thought it was inspired by WWI and had no idea that it had anything to do with race. The lyrics are anything but "woke."

56 posted on 07/03/2020 7:10:32 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
And there is nothing wrong with the pursuit of healing from racial divides in this country.

Why do you think they want to heal the division?

Did not Booker T. Washington warn us of the race hustlers who would use their hurt to create their livelihood?

These people know how to keep the money coming their way.

57 posted on 07/03/2020 7:15:07 AM PDT by beancounter13
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To: MtnClimber

I would like to see the negro leagues reinstituted. Then blacks could sing, kneel or do whatever they want to do at their games, except attract an audience.See how many would sign up.


58 posted on 07/03/2020 7:15:29 AM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: certrtwngnut

Even in Canada there seems to be many who want to refer to Hockey as the “White” game and distance it from basketball, since the Raptors won the NBA title.


59 posted on 07/03/2020 7:18:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Stopped caring quite a while ago - now don’t care even more.


60 posted on 07/03/2020 7:18:33 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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