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ESPN’s Wilbon Describes the XFL as a ‘Whitewashed, Idealistic Brand’ of Football
Breitbart ^ | January 25, 2018 | Trent Baker

Posted on 01/27/2018 5:47:02 AM PST by C19fan

Thursday on ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” co-host Michael Wilbon weighed in on the XFL’s comeback in 2020, calling Vince McMahon’s upcoming league a “whitewashed, idealistic brand” of football because it will require players to stand for the National Anthem and will not allow athletes with criminal records to play.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: espn; football; michaelwilbon; pardoninterruption; xfl
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1 posted on 01/27/2018 5:47:02 AM PST by C19fan
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Note to the brainiacs at ESPN: Thanks for giving the XFL such great free publicity!

Bwah hah hah hah hah!


2 posted on 01/27/2018 5:49:10 AM PST by mewzilla
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Using the term Whitewashed negatively is racist.


4 posted on 01/27/2018 5:50:55 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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So he’s saying Blacks will be excluded because they won’t stand for the anthem and they all have criminal records?


5 posted on 01/27/2018 5:52:12 AM PST by small farm girl (....)
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Gee, that sounds bigoted, doesn’t it...


6 posted on 01/27/2018 5:52:52 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Architect of Avalon

“Using the term Whitewashed negatively is racist.”

Sure, but it’s open season on the white man. So it’s okay.


7 posted on 01/27/2018 5:54:24 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: C19fan

So Wilbon is tacitly confirming that black NFL players are a) not patriotic and b) criminals?


8 posted on 01/27/2018 5:55:16 AM PST by relictele
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9 posted on 01/27/2018 5:56:12 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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IM Offended.


10 posted on 01/27/2018 5:59:01 AM PST by jaz.357 (Blithering Intellectual.)
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And WTF is wrong with an idealistic form of the sport?


11 posted on 01/27/2018 6:03:38 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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Wilbon is what he is. Black first, always, right or wrong.


12 posted on 01/27/2018 6:05:20 AM PST by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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I cannot believe that someone running a company such as the NFL would allow employees to destroy a company. What type of leader stands by when employees cause a 30 percent drop in customers? Rule number one of business, never insult your customer.


13 posted on 01/27/2018 6:06:19 AM PST by Lockbox
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Up until 10 or so years ago I used to enjoy these two guys. But when they went political I dropped them and almost the rest of espn.


14 posted on 01/27/2018 6:07:45 AM PST by certrtwngnut (w)
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Best thing that could happen. This currently generation of black players sure ain’t like Paul Warfield and Larry Little of my beloved 1972 Dolphins. Discrimination against qualified white players is outrageous.


15 posted on 01/27/2018 6:10:35 AM PST by Nothingburger
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“... it will require players to stand for the National Anthem and will not allow athletes with criminal records to play.”

So blacks are ineligible? That’s racist!


16 posted on 01/27/2018 6:14:16 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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No felons.

I’ll watch.


17 posted on 01/27/2018 6:22:11 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Yep. I'll make it a point to watch and to support it, even though football, at least as we know it, is living on borrowed time. I hope [the big city within 100 miles of me] gets a team.

It'll be a joy to see the NFL go down first.

18 posted on 01/27/2018 6:31:39 AM PST by OKSooner (Joan Rivers, RIP)
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Heh, guess ESPN believes on the “equal felons rule”.


19 posted on 01/27/2018 6:33:03 AM PST by Da Coyote
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ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,”

Ahh yes, "PTI" the Ebonic Sports Political Network's marquee show of diversity, socialism, and mob rule.

Format for the game show: Pit one aging, weak, arrogant East Coast faux intellectual suffering from the appropriate white guilt against an obese, lisping, inner-city idiot dripping with excessive racism from his white envy. The show immediately progresses deteriorates into a social studies petri dish where all the bacteria grows on the far, far left side as each component tries to out-liberal the other.

In a sane world, this show would not have lasted to the second episode. The two "hosts" are the least telegenic people they could find, their IQs and attitudes are in the gutter, their "discussions" are so politically correct they are offensive to the majority of humans and their politics would make Mao smile.

20 posted on 01/27/2018 6:33:08 AM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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