Posted on 05/22/2014 8:00:05 AM PDT by Biggirl
This is very very good!!
Thanks.
All of these off-season stories will hurt the NFL, these stories, all are a joke or of the lawsuit variety.
The NFL’s big story last year was pushing Peyton Manning on the public as often as they could. I mean that was contrived.
Most welcome. Thanks for appreciating. I think it so odd that the most masculine thing in America these days is sitting on one’s butt watching other men play boys’ games.
As soon as somebody says any sport is a “children’s game” they show they’re grinding an ax and not really dealing with facts. None of our major sports started off for kids, they started off as hobbies for adults, usually young adults, often times part of college fitness programs, but still for adults. Eventually they spread down to kids with jr leagues, but they’re not children’s games.
Fine. I stand corrected. Men sitting on their butts watching other men play games. Knitting and flower arranging are more masculine as they are active rather than passive.
And baseball likely started in Great Britain as “Rounders” but that doesn’t stop it from being called the American Pastime.
It’s masculine because men like it. Men like competition both as participants and observers. Maybe you don’t find it fun, but it’s telling that you feel such a need to denigrate those that do.
These days the emphasis being on “past”, it’s amazing how bad baseball attendance has gotten.
What I feel a need for is waking up folks in this country. We are headed for collapse while people are more interested in being entertained than in getting involved. Such pervasive entertainment is something so very new in human history. Professional sports has become a big soap opera. It’s not just about watching a couple games one day a week. But on discussing the last game and speculating on the upcoming game. Here’s what I think is gonna happen. Here’s what they should do. So-and-so did this or said that. And now NFL is multiple days a week. Plus MLB, NBA, NHL, PGA, etc. The owners and players are laughing all the way to the bank while your way of life is headed for extinction/ Bread and circuses.
Guess I hit a nerve with you.
The least important thing is spending money that makes rotten people rich.
It’s been the national flamboyant league long before the gayness came around. They stop their ultimate game of the season for fruity dancing and glitzy performers. HGH riddled behemoths celebrate and chest slap after even mundane plays like they are trying out for the latest greatest Broadway musical. The only thing that stops it from going full on glitzy pro-wrestling are rules suitable for 2nd graders, because the players can’t self police the prancing jerkwads among them.
Looking around at the general state of things, it’s not surprising it’s the most popular sport by miles.
Freegards
Pervasive entertainment isn’t at all new in history, human being love to be entertained and have always made sure they had tons of entertainment available. We’ve had plays, and books, and minstrels, and story tellers, and jesters, and a long tradition of gathering together during or after meal time to be entertained (or entertaining). What’s different is how many people can watch the same thing at the same time, and therefore get to discuss it later. It used to be if your co-worker wasn’t at the same pub as you he couldn’t have seen the minstrel so you couldn’t really discuss much beyond “you should go to that pub tonight, he’s great”, now just because the two of you didn’t spend the evening together doesn’t mean you didn’t enjoy the same entertainment.
The human mind needs its relaxation time, it requires entertainment to maintain balance. It’s such a desperate need that the brain will make up its own in dreams. It’s no coincidence that when you get engrossed in a book, movie or TV show your brain enters the same alpha wave state as during a dream.
And we can have our entertainments and still deal with the world. It’s not either or, we’ve got 24 hours in a day to mess with. If you really want to get people more involved in the problems of the world don’t attack the entertainment our brain requires to function, attack the government and its tax rate that forces us to spend so much time earning money. We spend 9 hours a day at work (if we’re lucky), another hour or so getting there and back, plus another couple hours an basic biological needs other than sleep, 8 hours on sleep, and you begrudge people taking 3 hours to relax. Make our work day shorter by letting us keep our money, then you’ll see activism. By the time we’re done paying the government we’re exhausted.
You didn’t hit any nerves, you’re just showing yourself to be a bloviating ego booster. If you actually want to fix problems insulting people accomplishes nothing, it’s just you stroking your ego.
Actually, the famous Cubs announcer Harry Caray use to call it a “kid’s game” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Caray
So one can call one out on this, but one of baseball’s most famous announcers use to say this. He’d usually say it in reference to the baseball strikes, “They are paid millions to play a kid’s game.”
You hit on the head, the sports you mention and the Premier League of Soccer in England are like this. English long-time sports writer calls that league in England “The greed is good league”.
NFL is messing up, people use to turn it on on Thanksgiving to watch a game traditionally. Not sure if people will continue to have this kind of enthusiasm.
Until a few decades ago with the advent of television, radio, internet, etc, entertainment was a rarity. Now people are being entertained into a nonlife. There is a big difference between fun and entertainment. Active and passive. People are becoming more passive. Very convenient for the statists.
Just him grinding an ax then. Never seemed to mind it being an adult game when he was being paid to talk about it.
They are killing college football as well. Especially with all of the crazy uniforms, and games every day of the week.
College football should be played on Saturday afternoons in on-campus stadiums, period.
As Roger Waters sang, “This species has amused itself to death.”
I’m sure over half of all participants in baseball in this country are kids. It’s probably much higher than that. Sounds like a kid’s game.
You are relying on history from the 1880s or something for the most part.
No, entertainment was NOT a rarity. That is simply historically inaccurate. Entertainment goes back as far as recorded human history, in fact a lot of our recorded human history WAS entertainment to start with. People often didn’t write down the daily news, but they did write down various things mocking the daily news.
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