Posted on 07/24/2020 4:30:00 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Would you want your children or grandchildren to try to emulate these athletes and coaches? Think about it. All children learn by example. . . unfortunately often they can’t make the distinction between a good example and a bad one.
Precisely.
I do this weird thing. I train and play sports myself.
Winter...snowmobiling
Spring... 4 wheeling
Summer...kayaking
Fall... 4 wheeling
Don’t have time for their non participation sports.
Maybe all is not lost.
It’s how most should be.
The younger generation do not care about sports at all.
I have 4 young men in my family, ages 20 to 33. NONE of them watch sports, EVER! Instead it’s all Xbox and PlayStation.
The sports business is dying. They just don’t know it yet.
Lefties have killed all forms of entertainment.
“Masks are not about controlling a virus. Masks are about controlling people.”
I use my mask to advertise my business.
When given lemons, make lemonade.
I’ve watched the Premier League without fans. It’s painful.
My entire life I’ve meticulously followed my NFL home team. I am done.
The NFL, NBA, and MLB want to pander to the Marxists, then let the Marxists support them. Not me.
Actually that is a good idea. I have to wear a mask where I work, and we got masks with the company logo on them. I’ve also seen that at the grocery store, employees wearing masks with the store’s logo.
they’ve left the strip clubs alone so far. :)
( altho i suppose Tons Of Fun lap dances will be mandatory soon) haha
They're very aware of it, hence all this pandering to what audience they have remaining. Their weekly financial tracking shows just how accelerated the decline has become. They're fomenting lies to pit people against each other for money.
At one time the blood was in the arena, now it's outside on the street...and the show owners are instigating it in order to get paid.
The only interest that I have left in sports will be subsequent CBA’s after their viewership and ad revenues are in the ditch. Hopefully, this is the end of 7-9 figure contacts. I think 6 figure contacts is plenty. Hope it was worth it, bigots.
But I never really paid much attention to sports once I reached adulthood. Probably because I played 3 sports through high school, and one in college...I was pretty much tired of it.
It's a shame. One could say we are giving up and letting them have it. However, the truth is that just like in sports, "we" lost.
I agree with you on this. As a Redskin fan since 1972, my favorite players have been Sonny Jurgenson, Charlie Taylor, Jerry Smith, Art Monk, John Riggens, Larry Brown, Diron Talbert, Dexter Manley, Pat Fischer, Darrell Green - black and white across the board. I am a racist because I never could stand McDrabb from Philly or the dog-killer Michael Vick, but I liked Steve McNair. I was a fan of RG III until he was destroyed by Mike Nolan and his own ego. I am/was a fan of athletes that I liked and thought were good, no matter the race. But the left has destroyed sports for me.
Yep, did 3-gun shooting for years, now doing NRL22 and precision rifle. Takes up a lot of my free time.
Lefties have killed all forms of entertainment.
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Absolutely.
My husband grew up a TV addict. For almost 20 years we lived in an area with poor over-the-air-reception. We had a variety of sat dishes, pre-Dish & DirecTV.
In the late 90s, we got a Roku and have streamed TV semi-regularly, since. I’m older and never developed the TV addiction, except for news and the Left killed that for me by 2008. I now watch clips and alternative commentary, but I prefer reading articles.
We have developed a schedule of watching 1-2 episodes of some TV series via Roku during dinner. Last night, we were watching a paranormal series set in Arthurian England. Way too many blacks, which jarred an otherwise decent production because it just wasn’t historically accurate (Arthur and Morgana are black). Then came the 1st obligatory lesbian scene between Morgana and another nun hiding in an abbey). We finished the episode. Doubt we’ll finish the series.
We said to each other:”They ruin everything they touch.” DH admits he cares very little now for TV. He does watch some of the DIY shows.
As a reader, about 15 years ago, I realized ALL the book awards were political. If a book wins some academic award and I go to look at the reviews, I find 100s complaining it is unreadable. When I read the sample, I have to agree. I now avoid them. I love science fiction which is totally compromised except for Baen and Vox Day. I now read indies, most quite good and interesting, as they rarely check the PC boxes like the trad-published pap.
More time for my own pursuits. I do various crafts while listening to talk radio or War Room and I write for myself because in today’s world, the need to check PC boxes in fiction destroys the writing flow. So I don’t. I’ve published independently and may do so again, but for now: not worth the stress of some Karen reviewing it negatively for political/ideological reasons.
Pretty much now You Tube videos serve as my form of entertainment, haven’t watched a network TV show in ages.
In 1992 and 93 I went to every home world series game and watched Joe Carter hit only the second walk off homer to end a world series. For a team sport fan to witness your team win a championship in the home arena/stadium well that is the mountain top. It doesn’t get any better than that. It was fun and good times. I appreciate it still because it’s a bit rare in sports world but it’s over. Don’t plan to ever pay for that again even given the opportunity and the tickets back then were actually affordable. $30 for the upper deck. I am just like this guy now. Check the scores and standings and say oh that’s nice or a shame and move on with life.
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