Monday, September 14, 2020

Sports: sucking the joy out of our culture


 Ratings For NBA Games Tank As Fans Walk Away In Droves Due To Left Wing Politics

"Guys who play for the NBA have it made. They get paid tons of money to do what they love best, playing basketball.   "And now it’s being ruined over politics. "People don’t watch NBA games to be lectured about politics from left-wingers, but that is what it is becoming, and fans are walking away in droves. Ratings are way down." . . .

Colin Kaepernick does it again   . . . "Kaepernick's attempt to return to his self-appointed leadership position at the NFL's expense offers a valuable lesson for corporations, teams, and individuals forced to deal with SJWs.  You can't give in to them, for the simple reason that SJWs will never be satisfied.  Why?  Because their ability to find fault with you gives them power.  If you "heal" their "wounds," they'll have no more power, and they know it.  So whatever you do to accommodate them will inevitably force them to demand more from you.  As long as they are publicly perceived as victims, the media (at least) will gang up on you.  Better — certainly in the long run — to stand on your principles than to cave in to the SJW mob."

Never Enough: Kaepernick Blasts NFL for Not Caring About 'Black Life'  "The NFL has pretty much handed the reigns over to the Marxist Black Lives Matter radicals. NFL season kickoff ratings were down despite everyone being locked up at home with more time than ever to watch television. Many are pointing to the NFL's decision to go full woke as the reason for the decline." . . .

Kirk Herbstreit’s Gameday disgrace brought BLM misery to people desperate to escape it.   . . . "Kirk Herbstreit, the network’s prime college football analyst, delivered the indictment — a weepy, juvenile homily aimed at shaming college football fans, most of whom tune in to ESPN in a vain attempt to escape politics for just a little while, into jumping aboard the Black Lives Matter bandwagon: . . .

"And the social-justice Left, which ruins everything it touches, has its hands on pro and college sports like Joe Biden on a 12-year-old. All that’s left is to watch the stadiums empty and the advertisers drop out.

"Herbstreit killed college football on Saturday. Americans have no patience for struggle sessions. The Cultural Revolution is one thing Americans simply won’t buy from China."


NFL Fans Boo 'Moment of Unity' Prior to Season Opener in Kansas City  . . . "Ultimately, players and franchises have every right to take stands on issues and subjects that matter to them.  But so do fans, and sports is ultimately a business that relies on ordinary people to make it all work.  Aggressive, sustained alienation -- and injecting controversial politics into an enterprise that many people see as an escape hatch from life's various hardships -- is a risk.  Recognizing that reality does not put someone on the 'wrong side of history.'  And those who earn a living in the pro sports industry ignore the views of millions of their devoted customers at their peril."


Pretty soon it’s going to be “Monday night watch as this football team battles that football team to win a trophy that they will all share so no ones feelings gets hurt”

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