He's just a sore loser that the Bears got their butts kicked.
Weren't GI's tuned in to the World Series during WWII? Most baseball players (Ted Williams and Hank Greenberg for example) were in the military, they had 4F's playing, but baseball still went on.
It's good morale for the troops to cheer their teams.
And baseball also had the women players as well. The Tom Hanks movie, League of Their Own, was based on that.
Yes sports went on at home. This Kramer guy is as dumb as a sack of hair.