Da MFL.
Posted on 08/17/2016 8:09:36 AM PDT by rktman
ESPN’s Around the Horn has gone from one of the best, longest running panel shows the network has ever had, to an absolutely farcical flagship of left-wing lunacy.
Yesterday, the panel at ATH lamented the fact that Cam Newton didn’t feel racially persecuted. Because, apparently, that’s bad. On Tuesday’s edition of the show, the panel discussed really silly comments made by the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, who said the NFL’s culture makes players not speak publicly on cultural issues, out of fear of repercussions.
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This is a SPORTS channel not a POLITICAL channel...so they should shut up on everything except sports, and we can turn them off also...just like we have with CNN...
Isn’t ESPN supposed to be a SPORTS CHANNEL?
Knock off the political garbage and you will stop losing viewers
The NFL is still powerful though. Very powerful. People watch more football on Sundays than they go to church. Rodgers and Newton are very influential.
What, this upstart fellow dares to live off of the Liberal Plantation? What does Cam think he is? A free man? What blasphemy!
Yeah, riiiiight.
We can all benefit by the intellectual jewels presented to us by a bunch of folks who have trouble spelling NFL.
Sorry, but dat’s the twuth.
I think that’s the problem... it’s like a second religion.
before we were being lectured to by Nanny idiots with Harvard degrees.
now we get to be lectured to by nannny idiots with no degrees.
Oh, joy.
If I want POLITICS, I’ll watch ABCNNBCBSFOXPBSMSNBC.
If I want SPORTS, I’ll watch The Cartoon Network................
I watch ESPN for football games,nothing else
Da MFL.
The Left is a parasite. It can't gain legitimacy by creating anything useful and demonstrating success by being successful.
It has to hijack institutions that are already successful, and turn them into conveyor belts for liberalism.
Make no mistake, ESPN and the NFL would love for the player to voice certain things on certain subjects. But whoa unto the athlete that voices a conservative or reasoned opinion on any subject. Shame, ignominy or worse would be heaped upon them. The players like endorsement t deals and to be left alone. Only the idiots draw attention to themselves negatively off the field.
I hope they get better advice from their coaches and agents than they do from half baked over-the-hill, ebonix rambling, blowhard ESPN commentators.
Would anyone really care to hear Micky Mantle discuss some social cause....or Yogi Berra talk on HIV....or Johnny Bench talk on slums in Baltimore?
Personally, I think ESPN has reached maximum capacity and unable to really function within their core job. I’d go and bring the top ten guys of the company into a room....then fire them. I’d hire one single guy to replace the ten, and let him know that ESPN is about sports, and that’s it. If he can’t do sports only....he needs to find a new occupation.
Amen to that, sister.
Only we aren’t being lectured by highly paid athletes.
Only by lowly paid third-string jock-sniffing erstwhile journ-O-lists who have deluded themselves into thinking their social significance exceeds the fact that they can read off basketball scores.
[The NFL is still powerful though. Very powerful.]
They’ll go the way of MACY’S if they don’t watch out.
It’s the same as you tell musicians; “Shut up and play.”.
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