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
> Baseball is back already
Tried watching one of the games. The announcers have fake crowd noise piped into the background when the game is being played in an empty stadium. Fake, fake, fake.
Russian Collusion
Bought a new bass boat last February and never looked back.
Like watching college football and minor league baseball and F1. Sometimes folk on occasion.
Like listening to MLB on the radio.
Other than that, no interest.
folk = GOLF!
Geesh.
Will the advertisers look at the ratings and either drop out or demand to pay less? Or will they be guilted/threatened into keeping up payments even if they aren't economically viable?
Will the networks demand immediate renegotiation of their contracts because of lack of games and championships or will they just wait until contracts expire and then offer less or just let them lapse?
Will the teams change? Will they continue sponsored on field politics or demand players leave it in the locker room? Will they insist networks pay them as much as now? Will they start offering players smaller contracts?
Will the players start behaving or will they continue to insult the nation by focusing on the "Woke" rather than the win?
I bet on the networks breaking first. Every other point can be postponed or done incrementally in hopes of weathering both the disease and social storms. But when those multi billion dollars contracts come due then big decisions will have to be made. They will have to decide how much to cut the offers. Some might even declare bankruptcy to bail out early.
“Many of my customers had practically a ‘shrine’ to John Elway or Peyton Manning and the Broncos”
Yeah. Living vicariously through a team/player is Probly the one single thing that keeps the big 3 pro sports afloat. If white folks ever decided to close their wallets they’d get the message...of course white folks don’t stick together like that, unlike some other race who shall remain nameless.
Not watching Marxist League Baseball. Don’t care what they do.
I wonder when the primadonnas will realize that their gravy train is about to end.
Maybe the covid thing is destroying the professional sports business. And without a viable business, the players have to be furloughed.
Good riddance.
“Will they continue sponsored on field politics or demand players leave it in the locker room?”
They don’t wanna kill the goose that laid the golden egg. That’s why discipline in pro sports is so lax. What would finish burning it down is people closing their wallets as I suggested in post #47.
Almost as good as naked Vaseline twister!
Now an Olympic sport. Yes!
I love sports. Having participated in years past, now it’s just as a spectator. But professional sports have been politicized to the point I shall not watch. I’m finished with them. College sports yes, love it. But if they continue down the same political path I’ll discontinue watching.
Pro sports exists because of taxpayer-funded corporate welfare. Stadiums now cost over a billion to build.
I’m sure the leases and agreements require the teams to not engage in political speech. That’s entirely what BLM is. It’s an organized political entity that donates cash exclusively to Democrats.
Why are we funding this nonsense?
We need lawsuits to shut the nonsense down.
If your gonna watch college football you might as well watch pro. I suspect it’ll be very similar when it comes to the sjw crap.
Bump
I never had the opportunity to play because I lived ten miles from the school and I had to work on the farm. There were no neighbors with kids my age in the country so I just never got into ball games and have not spent more than ten hours watching them in my whole life. We have a son-in-law who grew up very close to Clemson and I have had all I can take of a grown man who is six foot one and weighs 235 literally jumping up and down and screaming when Clemson makes a touchdown and ignoring all else in the world as if the fate of the entire planet hinges on the outcome of the Clemson-Carolina game. I could die of boredom while he is on an adrenaline rush that could cause a heart attack.
Yeah I used to do that crap...finally realized what a waste it was.
The OSU Football coach had to apologize for wearing an OANN shirt while on vacation. He also had to give back a million dollars of his salary.
That’s why the Miami Marlins draw so few fans. There’s just too many better things to do in that city than watch baseball.
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