For you, maybe. I happen to like football quite a bit. Of course that’s always the punchline 99% of the people declaring they’re boycotting X never watched X in the first place. A lot of pointless chest thumping and ego boosting, but in the end completely meaningless. Remember Rush ain’t boycotting.
I can’t boycott what I don’t watch but I can sure call a weasel a weasel and the NFL seems to be full of them.
Actually, that's what many NFL players do after they score a touchdown or make a good play.
There is much truth in your post. What happened to me with baseball was that I just saw the game differently. It’s like falling out of infatuation with a girl you wanted. You date her long enough to see some serious incompatibility problems and you are no longer interested.
I used to be a big fan of pro sports but saw enough of WHY it is what it is that I no longer appreciate it. The strike was a final blow for baseball. For Football, it was when I discovered that some timeouts during the game were LITERALLY for TV commercial breaks. I don’t see it as a sport any more. I see it as a business.
I have a phrase I use with people when they have wronged me. It is not a nice phrase, but it is utter truth. It is not nice because there is nothing whatsoever they can do about it. The phrase is this: “I’m not angry with you, I just see you differently now.” And I do. The relationship is forever altered.
People give us free tickets to games occasionally. We were at a Sonics game two years ago, 13 rows up from the centerline and left after the first quarter. I simply did not enjoy watching a bunch of overpaid thugs play a childrens game, and a game I would much rather play than watch.
Two weeks ago we got free Seahawks tickets (including parking). We gave those away. We get free tickets to Mariners games on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes we use them if it is a nice day. We’ll watch a few innings as part of our visit to downtown before what we REALLY enjoy doing down there: people watch and feed the seagulls at Ivars.
Meanwhile, my wife and I love to stop on road trips in towns we are driving through and spontaneously stop to watch little league games played and watched by people we have never met. It is VERY exciting.
I see professional sports as nothing more than a for profit business that I prefer not to support. This event confirms what I already knew.
I don’t hate professional sports, I just see it differently now. I simply cannot appreciate it as a game any more than I can appreciate a movie with bad lines recited by bad actors.