Posted on 08/27/2020 9:31:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
I cancelled NFL Sunday Ticket already.
It is beginning to look like that just might happen. Maybe not intended; but, brought on by the vain stupidity of these "atheletes".
They have already walked away... Now maybe sprinting.
It’s simple: if you live in a glass house that was built and paid for by fans, don’t throw rocks at the fans.
People don’t like in-your-face lecturing on topics having nothing to do with the entertainment being paid for. Sports, Hollywood, media, and academia need to realize that, in the end, they are much less important to most people than the police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, utility workers, farmers, grocers, and garbage collectors. And, if we are smart, we’ll add nonproductive politicians to the list of marginal performers.
i’ve already walked away ... been a die-hard Broncos fan for forty years, but no more ... used to watch some of the stupid sports shows, kept up and watched other teams they were going to play, the whole mcgillicuddy ... but no more ... i have no idea what’s going on with them for any other part of the NFL and could care less now ...
sports fandom is an obsessive emotional addition, but it’s the easiest of all the addictions to cure, namely abstain for a few weeks while finding other activities and soon you could care less ...
do i still miss it? a little, but it helped alot that the Broncs had turned into losers and that the games themselves had turned into an excruciatingly boring “entertainment” with the sole strategy of simply hanging on during the 15 minutes of actual play during the 3.5 hour telecast hoping the other team makes more mistakes than yourself...
It is so much easier to walk away because our lives have done without sports for some time now!! I have had enough of these RICH, ELITE, spoiled brat THUG sports players!! This country has given them opportunity they could get NO WHERE else on the planet UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS!! WE the fans put them there and WE the fans can take their success away!!
Truly the greatest bigot of all, her hubris to accuse the USA OF GENOCIDE is disgusting. Osaka is HAITIAN/Japanese and the only thing making her a “BLACK WOMAN” is her HAITIAN father. She claims Japan as her country and she lives in the USA as one of the highest paid athletes in the world. She states the GENOCIDE by police is making her sick to her stomach. Riddle this.......does she have any idea of the TRUE GENOCIDE that happens in Haiti every day of their lives and has this BLACK HAITIAN WOMAN ever returned to Haiti to see the everyday GENOCIDE these people face. Why doesn’t she make HAITI her cause?
This is Osaka’s statement and think of the bigotry from this illiterate twit.
“Before I am an athlete, I am a black woman,” she wrote in a post Wednesday night. “And as a black woman I feel as though there are much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention, rather than watching me play tennis. I don’t expect anything drastic to happen with me not playing, but if I can get a conversation started in a majority white sport I consider that a step in the right direction.””Watching the continued genocide of Black people at the hand of the police is honestly making me sick to my stomach,” Osaka wrote in her post. “I’m exhausted of having a new hashtag pop up every few days and I’m extremely tired of having this same conversation over and over again. When will it ever be enough?”
I bet tennis at plus 1.5 sets in my parlays with other things. They dont have this match up yet so dont know who the favorite is...but I cant bring myself to do it with her if she is the favorite.
Hope she loses.
Wait for it.
When people stop showing up for games and buying overpriced merchandise, that will be deemed racist.
I haven’t watched an NBA game for 30 years but have always been a baseball fan, played Div 1 myself, and have 4 extended family members who played in the majors. One is the current GM of an MLB team. Last night in the 6th inning of a tie game, I had to listen to the announcer expound on their solidarity with the NBA players who decided not to play. I turned it off and went to bed, and I’m still mad enough I don’t know if I’ll ever watch another game. Hopefully the NFL doesn’t follow along with this idiocy.
I have the feeling that they are going to have a hell of a time filling half the stands when (or if) the country ever gets back to normal after the first political pandemic in history.
Deemed racist by whom? Intolerance of our county by skilled athletes is a turnoff. As for expensive merchandise most of it is imported from China and made by slave labor. Do you think most people desire to support the Chine Communist Party who gifted the world with the covid virus?
I hear you. Back when it was the only sport playing on the planet I was enjoying KBO baseball from Korea but had to quit watching because I just could not stomach the woke commentary of the ESPN announcing crew. They’re determined to rub our noses in it wherever we go.
My friend has a nephew who is a bench utility player in majors. Sort of a 4-A guy who is up and down a lot. I know he cherishes every day he gets to be in The Show. For sure he’ll never be voting for a protest shutdown.
I have an extended family member who plays in the NFL (actually he may be retiring due to injuries). I know he doesn’t buy into this nonsense either.
Will future riots feature unemployed former sports players crying about something they caused?
Where are their agents? Their paychecks will be gone too.
Their agents may be crooked, greedy etc. but they aren’t stupid.
This is exactly what is going on. These people are paid to play a game for the entertainment of the fans. The fans have their own ideas on politics. The more these clowns antaganize the fans, the more the fans will become disinterested. Have they not learned from the Colin Kaepernick thing?
I gave up on the NBA probably in the 1980s.
Back in the VCR era... I set it to record a movie on TBS.
Watching the tape the next night, it goes to split-screen - half-movie, half NBA game, with the caption, “You can watch this game on TNT”.
Don’t remember how long split screen lasted, maybe a minute?
TBS might have done it a couple of times during the movie.
Guess the ads/audience revenue must have been higher enough for them to try to annoy and perhaps lose audience on TBS in the attempt to poach from themselves.
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