Posted on 07/28/2020 4:09:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
At the outset, I have to say that I’ve never been the biggest sports fan on the planet. So it isn’t a big sacrifice for me to say I’m not going to watch professional sports this year, or maybe ever again. I never actively shunned pro sports, and as a kid I wouldn’t have missed a Tigers or Lions game for just about anything in the world, I just found other things to do as I got older. But I’d wander back for interesting games or championships – there are few things a person isn’t directly involved with that are as exciting as a contest between great athletes when the stakes are high. But with the embrace of radicals like Black Lives Matter by all the leagues, I’m going to make a point of not watching any of it.
I won’t miss basketball at all. The game is boring. I know it’s “fast-paced,” but it’s really not. It takes forever and all that matters is the last two minutes. Each team seems to get 50 timeouts, which sometimes allows them to take the ball out at half-court rather than under the basket. I never cared enough to find out why.
It’s also just not exciting. The first time you saw a buzzer-beating shot to win a game may have been exciting, but haven’t you seen it a thousand times by now? And how many times can anyone get worked up over a 7-foot-tall guy with long arms jumping a foot to slam a ball through a hoop? It seems like everything spectacular that could be done already has been. It’s up and down the court like a really boring tennis match.
That the league has decided to overtake the NFL as the most-woke league in the world only made my resolve harder. That they’re going to paint “Black Lives Matter” and have messages on the backs of their jersey, and undoubtedly protest during the national anthem, killed what little interest I had in even knowing who won the championship.
As for the NFL, again, I don’t care. I didn’t grow up with a professional football team, I grew up with the Detroit Lions. Watching perpetual basement dwellers dwell in the basement is about as exciting as it sounds. The Lions have won one playoff game in the Super Bowl era (in 1991) and only make the playoffs via fluke.
Professional football for me is a distraction on the TV on Sundays – I don’t really look at the action unless it sounds like something exciting is happening. When the kneeling during the anthem started, I stopped even doing that. Now that they’ve gone all-in for Black Lives Matter, I’ll find something else to play in the background.
Baseball is back already (though games are being canceled due to COVID-19 outbreaks), and aside from videos on Twitter, I haven’t bothered to care. A 60-game season does mean anyone can win the World Series this year, but whoever does win will be there prostrating themselves on the altar of a bunch of left-wing radicals. I love baseball, but I love my country more.
It’s not that baseball players are kneeling during the anthem, it’s that the league has caved to the mob and brought politics onto the field. All these leagues have.
Sports served as a distraction from whatever else was happening in the world and our lives, now it’s the manifestation of the Democratic Party’s demands of conformity. I’m not interested in conformity. A bunch of different colored like-minded drones chanting anti-American slogans is not my idea of diversity.
If I want to be preached to, I’ll call a priest, not millionaires who play a game for a living. If I want to learn something, I’ll read a book, not seek out the “feelings” of someone in a profession known for having proxies take their classes for them. And if I want a distraction from the stress of daily life, I’ll practice self-dentistry before I give these pampered, privileged narcissists a second of my time.
Personally, if their whole seasons collapsed and had to be canceled because they snuck an infected super-spreader into their bubble, I’d be just fine with that.
Sports could have been bigger than ever, more important than ever, and could have helped bring the country together during the pandemic by being the distraction people need from everything we’ve lost. Instead, like everything else, liberal politics was rammed into it to the point that it’s just another appendage of the Democratic Party. You couldn’t pay me to be a Democrat, I sure as hell am not about to fund any of their fellow travelers. Until they get the politics out of sports, I’m getting the sports out of my
Professional sports are reaching a state of self-destruction similar to a Diesel engine wound out to 3,000 RPM, and from which all the oil has been drained from the crankcase, and the sump is dry.
Parts overheat quickly, and self-disassembly proceeds in a spectacular manner.
The sports will survive. It is the leagues that are killing themselves by embracing marxism. They are only inviting competition.
The marxist leagues must die. Long live sports.
Like so many other professions these days, they fail to understand their role on life’s stage.
I guess they feel a need to be more than someone that’s famous and rich for playing a sport, singIng, acting, telling jokes or readIng news.
Are their fame and riches not fulfilling enough for them? Or is it a bandwagon “Me too! Me too!” thing among the rich and famous?
I’ve made a conscious decision to take the time I used to spend enjoying baseball, some football, and some basketball, on music instead. Much better use of my time.
Sports betting recently became legal in Colorado. Now, the bombardment of commercials for sports betting sites is worse than the Bloomberg for President ads ever were.
Btw..this same kid who won a million bucks set up a gambling event through some site on a candy eating contest and whether a guy would puke
Not even sure it was legal..but a lot of people bet it.
I think that should probably be ‘was’, not ‘were’.
For decades pro sports have been to self-aggrandizing for my tastes. To me the best football has always been on Saturdays. Now that the NFL has gone pedal-to-the-metal on blaming America for everything under the sun, especially white male America, they couldn’t pay me to watch the stupor bowl.
I love sports and especially college FB, but expect to be giving that up too. Pro sports is boring and don’t miss it.
It will probably be used as a colosseum to throw Christians to lions.
...Professional sports are reaching a state of self-destruction
similar to a Diesel engine wound out to 3,000 RPM
Sort of like the Western Economies running on nitro-methane
It works great, until it doesn’t
Deshaun watson is going to lecture his teammates and the owner and ask questions. I saw that and thought GTFO with your nonsense. The owner and white boy Watts went to the Floyd funeral. watson did not.
nFL wbite boys like Drew Brees will have to capitulate or retire.
At the end of the day pro (and ameture for that matter) sports are nothing more than entertainment. I’ll spend my time and hard earned money entertaining myself in some other way.
Too bad there are to many people that live their lives vicariously through their favorite sports team/player. I used to do it...but I REALLY woke up.
People were betting russian table tennis during the lockdown...but after an article about how it might be rigged..and it clearly was...some states shut down the ability to bet on it.
Barry Sanders and Billy Sims were the singular highlights of the Lions.
I don’t know what kind of pipeline there is to Oklahoma.
It always amazed me how many of my customers had practically a ‘shrine’ to John Elway or Peyton Manning and the Broncos, in the front room of the house.
Yes... already there.
It’s a mind vacation, it’s supposed to be relaxing, entertaining. But I won’t watch this political protest. F*ck those millionaires, most of which are “woke” to save their own bacon. Living in a gated community, surrounded by security, they don’t know or care. “I see my brothers are protesting, so I better protest too or I’ll get the Drew Brees treatment”.
May sports soon red line and blow out.
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