Professional football has long since become a bread and circuses forum for glorifying thug culture. Good guys and sportmanship are more sparse by the year. There isn’t much left there for conservatives to defend.
“Professional football has long since become a bread and circuses forum for glorifying thug culture. Good guys and sportmanship are more sparse by the year. There isn’t much left there for conservatives to defend.”
Remember also, before the current era of hype and celebrity began in the mid 1960s, pro sports were mainly statistical generators for the gambling industry. Look at old films of regular season games, and see how sparse the actual attendance was.
I think of that every time a cellphone ad brays, “Get the latest sports scores!” Everybody knows they mean, “Call your bookie!”
Not to mention where all sports leagues would be if beer advertising were banned. I’m not anti-sports but let’s be realistic about what has grown up around it, and what it is dependent on. It’s a multitude of sketchy symbiotic relationships that are increasingly moving pro sports away from the iconic Americana we wrongly associate it with.
Libs attack football because it is simultaneously HUGE, AMERICAN, and FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL on a Biblical scale. Also, “regular” Americans love football and DO NOT CARE about that other sport that is worshipped in Europe, France, South America, France, and France. These alone are reasons for conservatives to defend football. Sure, there are thugs in the NFL, but Peyton Manning is also in the NFL, and Sam Mills was also in the NFL.
Well said. Liberals didn’t make the cool players unwilling or unable to self police the jerkwads who execute all the fruity prancing and chest slapping displays. The inherent nature of football’s rules and how popular it is dictated that, as far as I tell. NFL only got more popular after all that garbage became common, there’s a lot of fans that don’t dig it, but the great majority seem to love it.
Also an ultra popular farm system makes it much harder to weed out the talented jerks before they make it to the big show.
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