Why people are "done"

[Badger52]

(Meme h/t to a user over at Snugbus)

Imagine being a 14-yo girl that was raped & wake up to see NFL sporting your rapist's name on their gear.

[tom kelly]

I am Still waiting for the NBA players & owners to show their SUPPORT FOR HONG KONG...Why doesn't king james say something about the oppression in China...??? COULD IT BE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.....??????? WAITING.

[Sohei]

Male with a mangina masquerading around as a man!

Clownish coward who can't stand by what he said so he kowtowed to the pressure.

What a sac of pus!

[Old Dog New Trick]

When you don’t know what to stand for you’ll pretty much stand for anything!

Sports and me are “done” again, even hockey has succumbed political (IN)correctness.

Buh-Bye!!! Won’t miss you!

[JGC2]

I grew up adoring sports. I played them year round and in college, and then as an adult watching sports was my favorite hobby.

About five years ago I quit cold turkey. It was the most liberating thing I have ever done. I realized I have no respect or adoration for these people anymore, and I didn't want me or my children to be anything like them. Their behavior from 2016-2019 and especially in 2020 has proved me right.

In my opinion, we've moved past the point of "I don't watch sports anymore" and into the realm of "I mock people who do."

If you subsidize these clowns and their handlers and owners being grotesquely wealthy and influential in our moral cesspool of a society, you are equally part of the problem. Full stop. Just quit caring about them and tell everyone you know to do the same, and while we may not be able to end this nonsense right away it is at least a step in the right direction.

[PSM]

^^^ The best thing is that it's freed up weekends and several days of the week. Look how much times we've re-gained in our lives. With the baseball strike in the 90s (?), we checked out our local CA League teams and surrounding high schools, including our son's, of course. We may do that with local HS football this year. Turns out that there's a bit of a nostalgic feeling when watching little leaguers take the field. Especially in a small town.

[abc_123]

Originally Posted by JGC2

I grew up adoring sports. I played them year round and in college, and then as an adult watching sports was my favorite hobby.

About five years ago I quit cold turkey. It was the most liberating thing I have ever done. I realized I have no respect or adoration for these people anymore, and I didn't want me or my children to be anything like them. Their behavior from 2016-2019 and especially in 2020 has proved me right.

In my opinion, we've moved past the point of "I don't watch sports anymore" and into the realm of "I mock people who do."

If you subsidize these clowns and their handlers and owners being grotesquely wealthy and influential in our moral cesspool of a society, you are equally part of the problem. Full stop. Just quit caring about them and tell everyone you know to do the same, and while we may not be able to end this nonsense right away it is at least a step in the right direction.

don't give in to the world view that the anti american democrats want you to have. do not give in to despair. college sports, while it has it's issues, is still worth watching. IMHO.

[Box]

Originally Posted by JGC2

I grew up adoring sports...

About five years ago I quit cold turkey. It was the most liberating thing I have ever done. I realized I have no respect or adoration for these people anymore, and I didn't want me or my children to be anything like them. Their behavior from 2016-2019 and especially in 2020 has proved me right.

In my opinion, we've moved past the point of "I don't watch sports anymore" and into the realm of "I mock people who do."

If you subsidize these clowns and their handlers and owners being grotesquely wealthy and influential in our moral cesspool of a society, you are equally part of the problem. Full stop. Just quit caring about them and tell everyone you know to do the same, and while we may not be able to end this nonsense right away it is at least a step in the right direction.

You are my anti-sportsball hero.

Multimillionaires with college degrees from some of the worlds most prestigious universities - preaching to the rest of us about oppression and privilege.
...all the while - you cant go more than a few weeks without a news story on some sort of corruption in big-money sportsball.

-Staff members fined or placed on probation for committing academic fraud on behalf of athletes at places like UNC (who got away with if for 18 years), UGA, Georgia Southern, Florida State, etc etc
-Countless snippets of domestic abuse by multimillionaires
-Drug abuse
-sex workers to recruit players
-Blind eyes turned towards performance enhancing drugs
-cheating scandals that cant even be tracked anymore (looking at you Saints and Patriots and Astros)
-and now of course, there is the glorification of violent criminals

Then they like to preach about their humanity while collecting millions of dollars in advertising revenue on the backs of Chinese sweatshops...
...signal your virtue Nike - we just love that shit


I drifted into the realm of one who mocks sportsball way back when they began holding sportsball seasons hostage because there weren't enough millions in their renegotiated contracts.