The professional sports industry can eat chit and die as far as I’m concerned.
It is true for me. For nearly 50 years, I was a high level consumer of professional football. I can’t watch it now.
For me, what it came down to beyond the embrace of woke culture, was the over-the-top response of athletes who vocally castigated those of us who took issue, and they have the arrogant, disgusting, greedy attitude that they should be able to insult us directly and without reservation, while holding out their hand for our money they are certain we will pay because they fully feel that we are too weak to stop watching.
No doubt there are some who will not stop watching. I did not watch last year for the first time since about 1972, and I may watch reluctantly again because I have a vital personal life-long relationship I need to find a way to transition out of that atmosphere which has been something that has kept us in touch, and if I do watch, I have to find a way not to ruin it for him. I don’t know how to handle it, just feeling my way forward.
But I cannot enjoy watching as I used to.