could be Steve. Here is the take away in my opinion.
I don’t want to get into a %^*%$% measuring contest with anyone here on who loves sports the most or who has watched more sports. I go back to when I was a kid and watched Lamonica hand over the reins to Ken Stabler and was a Raider fan for a long time. Then later became an Oilers/Moon fan.
My first basketball game I ever saw on TV was on a tiny B/W in my neighbors garage and watched a tall dude on the Bucks who I couldn’t pronounce his name. Later became this Center’s biggest fan and watched him go to LA, get a great guard from the draft and battle the Celtics for years.
I saw great baseball and boxing my whole life. Loved sports, played sports, probably spent too much time caring about sports. But something bad happened the last 8 years or so. Pro and College sports has become a manipulative tool for everything bad. I see nothing good in the major sports anymore. heck even the Olympics have become a non stop PC propaganda tool. I gave it all up and have never looked back.
I follow hockey now (which I hated my whole life). Don’t have to watch guys celebrating basic plays they make when their teams are getting crushed. Today, a linebacker tackles a RB for a 2 yard loss and gets up dancing and celebrating even though its the 4the quarter, 10 mins left and the guy’s team is down 21 points. This is common now and it’s a joke. The NFL and the NBA are a joke.
If you would have told me 20 years ago I would not watch football and basketball games with my son I would have scoffed. Now I don’t want my son to look up to most of these guys. Why any conservative dads let their kids buy a product that despises them and hates decency is what bugs me. If someone pees in my face I don’t smile and ask for more.
OK Rant off.