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If Trump Wins, Athletes Might Just Stop Playing
New York Magazine ^ | October 27, 2020 | Will Leitch

Posted on 10/27/2020 11:41:10 AM PDT by Trump20162020

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a relatively high-level sports executive about the election, which is to say we were discussing something terrible Donald Trump had said or done. We agreed that Trump was likely to lose. “But he could always still win — even Nate Silver says that,” I remarked.

The executive then said something that stunned me, though the more and more I think about it, the more sense it makes. “If Trump wins, or if he refuses to concede, I’m telling you right now: There won’t be any sports for a month,” he said. “Maybe more. These kids just won’t stand for it.”

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2020; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donaldtrump; football; mediawingofthednc; millionaires; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; newyorkmagazine; nfl; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; sports; sportsball; sportsballheroes; thugball; thugballheroes; trump; willleitch
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To: rhinohunter

And we would care because....? Well actually I wouldn’t care!


141 posted on 10/27/2020 1:39:08 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Trump20162020

It’s their choice


142 posted on 10/27/2020 1:43:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Trump20162020

Tell someone who cares.


143 posted on 10/27/2020 1:43:53 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: Trump20162020

You say that like its a bad thing


144 posted on 10/27/2020 1:46:31 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: Trump20162020
Good riddance.
145 posted on 10/27/2020 1:57:56 PM PDT by va22030
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To: AnxiouslyWaiting

Why should they? All they care about is their 7 figure salary and the apparel endorsements. If they did take a stand, do you honestly think the colleges and universities would back the coach up? They invented this woke crap. People need to realize that college football is just as bad as the NFL and kick it to the curb also.


146 posted on 10/27/2020 2:13:32 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: Trump20162020

These angry young Trump haters...

- their misdirected rage
- their abject gullibility to fake news lies
- their blind servitude to the Democrat Party
- their shameful ignorance of history and civics
- their profound unreasonableness and confusion
- their brainless addiction to memes and platitudes

....are an indictment of our failed educational system.

This election will show who is capable of critical thinking, and who is not.


147 posted on 10/27/2020 2:15:08 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: Trump20162020

Sports for many is like an addiction. Once you are cured of it, you wonder why you ever bothered to begin with?

I was a big sports fan from 1976 until about 2006. The staws that broke the camel’s back was the blatant and obvious cheating in the Steeler/Hawks superbowl of 2006. Then the Kap thing took me from even watching the playoffs. Today, it’s all so laughably bad that I couldn’t possibly imagine ever watching a game again. And I used to fairly frequently go to games in person, and spend 2-3 days a week watching televised sports.

These fools today don’t realize that they are destroying their careers and an industry that came long before they were born. It will never come back, it’s dead. And good riddance.


148 posted on 10/27/2020 2:17:15 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Trump20162020

Wow, that would be great!


149 posted on 10/27/2020 2:18:58 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: jmaroneps37

I can’t wait until I am able to hire a former nfl quarterback to trim my lawn. But, then, i don’t want to support anti-American, unpatriotic losers.


150 posted on 10/27/2020 2:23:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: rhinohunter

Good!


151 posted on 10/27/2020 2:35:01 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: glennaro

No Rocky Blier’s in the NFL anymore


152 posted on 10/27/2020 2:44:04 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Trump20162020

He’s suggesting something very UN-AMERICAN is going to happen. Sd.


153 posted on 10/27/2020 2:46:12 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love BULL MARKETS!)
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To: Trump20162020

YAY? Oh come on like the morons, most of them could do anything else for a living?


154 posted on 10/27/2020 2:49:26 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Trump20162020

For all the hatred thrown our way, for all the little childish names and labels we get called, for all the deliberate out of context statements, for the projected behavior and mindset, and for the riots and the blame for everything that doesn’t go their way....I actually enjoy the leftists tantrums.


155 posted on 10/27/2020 2:53:01 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Trump20162020

They say that like it’s a bad thing...


156 posted on 10/27/2020 2:53:52 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Trump20162020

by sports, I’m assuming football. Which means there’s an opening for more off-season baseball! Put me in coach!


157 posted on 10/27/2020 3:07:44 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Trump20162020

YIPPEE!


158 posted on 10/27/2020 3:08:20 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Trump20162020
No, the athletes should kill themselves.
159 posted on 10/27/2020 3:09:59 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Trump20162020
I love the term these "kids"...hey my father at age 17 joining the Navy during WW2 before even finishing HS was a "kid"....

these millionaire arrogant precks with gold chains around their necks are not "kids"..

160 posted on 10/27/2020 3:10:17 PM PDT by cherry
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