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As NBA Ratings Decline, Poll Shows 34% Watched Less Sports Over Social Justice Messages
Newsweek ^ | 3/30/2021 | By Matthew Impelli

Posted on 03/30/2021 3:42:31 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

As NBA ratings have declined over the current season, a new poll shows that more than 30 percent of Americans say they have watched less sports over political and social justice messaging.

The poll, which was conducted by Yahoo News/YouGov, found 34.5 percent of respondents saying they have watched less sports due to social justice campaigns. According to the poll, 11 percent of people said they have watched more sports as a result of the social justice messaging, and 56.3 percent said they have watched the same amount.

Looking at the different political party affiliations, 19 percent of Democrats said they have watched less sports in light of social justice messaging, while 13.7 percent said they have watched more. In comparison, 53 percent of Republicans said they have watched less sports due to social justice messaging, and just 8.6 percent said they have watched more.

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Nelson speaks for me


1 posted on 03/30/2021 3:42:31 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

It’s a 100% reduction in our household.


2 posted on 03/30/2021 3:44:40 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: NohSpinZone

The media will say it’s because we’re racist now.


3 posted on 03/30/2021 3:45:10 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: NohSpinZone

I have watched less sports because I am not at the wing bar with the big TVs and tasty cold ones served in Buckets. I went there to hang out with other couples without getting my grill dirty.

With the sound on at home, the games are less interesting when the sounds are only former jocks talk about current jocks being brave.


4 posted on 03/30/2021 3:46:53 PM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: NohSpinZone

^


5 posted on 03/30/2021 3:47:16 PM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: House Atreides

Add my house that’s a 200% decline.


6 posted on 03/30/2021 3:47:43 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: NohSpinZone

7 posted on 03/30/2021 3:47:49 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: House Atreides

Same here. Used to love football and baseball. Now disgusted. No watchee for me.


8 posted on 03/30/2021 3:50:16 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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A slight misspelling...

...34.5 percent of respondents saying they have watched less sports due to socialist justice campaigns.

9 posted on 03/30/2021 3:50:39 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: NohSpinZone

the NBA, which is horrible basketball... is ChiCom owned

cable/satellite fees are going up as the network bankroll sports - cut the cord if you can


10 posted on 03/30/2021 3:50:47 PM PDT by sheehan (TRUMP WON.)
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To: NohSpinZone

It’s awesome, and I’m never coming back. That goes for the NFL, the NCAA, and both the USWNT and the USMNT.


11 posted on 03/30/2021 3:50:57 PM PDT by Obadiah
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Hockey is the only sport that matters.


12 posted on 03/30/2021 3:54:01 PM PDT by thegagline
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The only sport I watch now is Hockey.

NBA, NFL, MLB, and any other sport that allows it’s employees to disrespect my nation and by association my service to this nation, can go pound sand. I will not spend a dime, I will not watch, I will not follow the standings. I no longer care.


13 posted on 03/30/2021 3:54:48 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: NohSpinZone

The “watched more” number is BS. That’s just liberals trying to skew the poll.


14 posted on 03/30/2021 3:56:02 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: House Atreides
I quit all sports except for Alabama Crimson Tide football.
- Roll Tide -

Everything else can shove it!

15 posted on 03/30/2021 4:00:18 PM PDT by blam
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“NBA, NFL, MLB, and any other sport that allows it’s employees to disrespect my nation and by association my service to this nation, can go pound sand. I will not spend a dime, I will not watch, I will not follow the standings. I no longer care.”

We will be finishing our 3rd year of cutting our cable in a couple of months.

No major/pro sports for 3 years and there will none.

We are saving a ton of money per month as well as not having NFL/NBA felons coming into into our home via the TV.


16 posted on 03/30/2021 4:04:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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I have no desire to watch illiterate millionaires play bouncy ball after squandering an opportunity for a free education that half the world would sacrafice nearly anything for


17 posted on 03/30/2021 4:05:07 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: protoconservative
With the sound on at home, ...

Tried watching a baseball game and the fake crowd noise just turned me off. It's like the laugh track on a sit-com.

Fake, fake, fake.

18 posted on 03/30/2021 4:06:16 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: House Atreides

Same here.


19 posted on 03/30/2021 4:07:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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To: NohSpinZone

What is really interesting to me, a guy who once had an Angel’s game or Ducks game on TV every night, how easy it is to ignore. Also, how childish the games and the presentation of them is once you stop caring. The Ducks weren’t involved in the protests last year so I thought I would watch them until they gave me reason to stop, but I haven’t watched a gave this season, and don’t miss it.


20 posted on 03/30/2021 4:08:32 PM PDT by Yogafist
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