Posted on 11/05/2022 6:22:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For American men, watching sports is a way to bond with pals, vicariously live out athletic dreams, and escape life’s pressures. It’s certainly no place for lectures.
In a perfect world, sports and politics would never mix, but our world’s far from perfect. In the ’60s, athletes like Muhammad Ali began using their platforms to draw attention to societal woes. Back then, it was frowned on, but in 2022 it’s more feature than bug. The slippery slope wins again -- the Disease of Wokeness is consuming sports top to bottom.
The NFL was the first to catch a serious case, and with Kaepernick’s help, it metastasized rapidly. He was a mediocre QB and an astonishingly ungrateful person. But credit where due, he saw his path to fame and fortune and went all in -- he took a stand against racial injustice and police violence against blacks.
Just one problem -- the racial injustice he railed against didn’t exist. Smart people like Heather MacDonald have demonstrated this repeatedly. Didn’t matter one iota -- the truth means nothing under Woke Doctrine. The NFL was off and running, as was Kaepernick. He signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Nike to push false, destructive narratives.
The kneeling abomination took hold. Championship teams began pointedly skipping White House visits, and other leagues followed suit. The Golden State Warriors pre-emptively (and amusingly) declined their White House invitation. The MLB moved its Allstar Game from Atlanta over Voter ID concerns. Imagine requiring ID to vote. Oh, to be so oppressed.
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Wokeness has no place anywhere.
We don’t.
Watching? Not me.
Ditto.
“We don’t.”
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Me neither. Phased it out starting several years ago, now down to zero. Tossed out anything with a woke sports logo on it. Don’t talk about woke sports with anyone.
It freed up so much time and brain space. Definitely raised my quality of life.
Why watch it? Because after the clock starts, the millionaires are playing a game. And sometimes watching them are fun.
I made a good living for many years photographing college sports. Even the lousy field hockey games were fun.
Not everything is about politics.
“We” don’t.
>>We don’t.<<
And the viewership numbers show it. In all sports.
Because they’re really not doing anything. Really at this point psuedo-conservative whiners spend WAAAAAY more time bitching about wokeness in pretty much everything than there’s wokeness in pretty much anything.
I quit watching football and baseball close to 30 years ago. It all ended with the first baseball strike in the 90s and the dancing in the end zone in the 80s
> Why Do We Still Watch?
Some must be addicted to the false sense of accomplishment sports gives them.
Sports, like many other institutions, are running on the fumes of our old culture. Fans who grew up walking to games never left “their” hometown; now, they make that hour drive to the stadium every week to support players and team owners who despise them and with whom they have almost nothing in common.
No thugball here. Not running-into-each-other-ball, not jumpy-ball, nor stick-ball, not even the football for feet :p
Better yet no sub to cable or satellite that pays those people whether I’d watch them or no. Still 10x more things to do than time.
More importantly, my kids don’t watch it.
I’ve got better things to do.
Planning mega terrorism,racism..destroying democracy..destroying the planet..busy busy busy.
We don’t.
And we cut the cord to deny them even the carriage fees.
Have not watched NFL - NBA - MLB games for many years - and will never watch again.
Who’s this ‘we’, kimosabe?
The answer is normalcy bias.
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