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America Didn’t Need Sports After All
The Atlantic ^ | February 28, 2021 | Jemele Hill

Posted on 03/02/2021 2:03:20 PM PST by tflabo

As the pandemic dragged on, the leagues, universities, pro franchises, and other entities that profit from a multibillion-dollar sports economy made a push for games to return. But these efforts also reflected a working assumption that the mere presence of sports would provide comfort, and perhaps a welcome distraction, for people who wanted to escape the horrors of the pandemic, at least momentarily.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: sportsboycott
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Gee - we wonder why Jemele. Any clues?
1 posted on 03/02/2021 2:03:20 PM PST by tflabo
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To: tflabo

As the travel team pipeline contracts, expect to see a lot of wailing


2 posted on 03/02/2021 2:05:01 PM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: tflabo

Wonder if the word WOKE may have been a causative factor.


3 posted on 03/02/2021 2:06:10 PM PST by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: tflabo

We don’t need any race-baiting, libtard, POS sports enemedia scumbags to tell us what we need either, Jemele.


4 posted on 03/02/2021 2:07:02 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: tflabo

Who needs kneelers?


5 posted on 03/02/2021 2:07:35 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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To: tflabo

Gee, Jemele, thanks for the enlightenment. (Did you actually get PAID for this or was it some form of reparations? Asking for a friend . . .)


6 posted on 03/02/2021 2:11:18 PM PST by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: tflabo

Best to engage in Sport on a personal basis, NOT sitting on one’s butt.


7 posted on 03/02/2021 2:11:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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Of course she completly ignored the woke nature of todays sports.

That had NOTHING to do with people turning away from sports...........


8 posted on 03/02/2021 2:12:00 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: Common Sense 101; All

To borrow a lyric from a Don McLean song titled Vincent, “they’re not listening, they’re not listening still—perhaps they never will”.


9 posted on 03/02/2021 2:12:06 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: xkaydet65

I think NBA will suffer the most. LA Lakers and New York Knicks will do fine. But what about Indiana Pacers? Utah Jazz? A lot of white fans who are all of sudden u unwelcome in the league now.


10 posted on 03/02/2021 2:13:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: tflabo

It’s time for contract deflation.


11 posted on 03/02/2021 2:17:05 PM PST by Obadiah
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Probably would have watched sports but they did not want to play.

They wanted to preach.

I go to church for that and what my pastor has to say is a lot more relevant and reality based.

So pro sports with their over paid sissy boys and continual dipping into public money can just eat dirt and die screaming in the gutter were it belongs.

12 posted on 03/02/2021 2:21:50 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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Marble Racing League

The Crazy Cats Eyes team is the best.


13 posted on 03/02/2021 2:35:44 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: tflabo

One sport that has been booming during the pandemic is the Pro Golf Tour. I never watched baseball or football except for playoffs but golf just seems to be interesting in every tournament. I think what attracts me is that it is individualistic and about personal mastery rather than simulated warfare between competing tribes. The payoffs are set up to reward the truly best players based on performance each week and not on some future contract.

Also, the players are just really nice mellow people who still understand sportsmanship and respect the game which isn’t always the case with contact sports. Here’s evidence for my assertion.

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2020/08/08/golf-on-tv-ratings-espn-cbs-pga-tour/


14 posted on 03/02/2021 2:36:10 PM PST by Dave Wright
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We dont like our anthem or flag disrespected, have marxist BLM shoved down our throats or millionaire ungrateful ballers tell us how racist and abusive to minorities we are in America. They lie about and to us and expect we the fans to support, admire them and contribute to their multimillion dollar coiffures? Well guess what — we can tolerate alot but chumps we aint. Sayonara arrogant, ungrateful ones.


15 posted on 03/02/2021 2:37:29 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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Nor Hollywood, leftist liberal so called comedy, crap music from a crap music industry, Goods and services form those who support BLM and antifa, the commie education system who doesn’t want to go back to work but still wants to get paid, leftist scumedia including turn coat fox. The scamdemic seems to have cleared the air so we can see more clearly. Keep up the good work


16 posted on 03/02/2021 2:38:02 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: tflabo

Thugs and cowards. Never again. Ever.


17 posted on 03/02/2021 2:47:59 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: xkaydet65

“Wonder if the word WOKE may have been a causative factor.”

As a nation we found out what big foots name is, most important...

We also found out was is not important.

Less important is that we found out we could do without the sports stars and the movie stars narcissism and self important presence in our lives.

We really never even missed them.


18 posted on 03/02/2021 2:58:58 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: tflabo

Without professional sports, who will remind football fans that they are despicable racist bigots?


19 posted on 03/02/2021 2:59:47 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Dave Wright

Golf is a good walk spoiled. (Twain)

Can honestly say that i’ve never seen an angry golfer play well.


20 posted on 03/02/2021 3:02:42 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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