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Patriotic Americans Need to Boycott Professional Sports
Several days ago I posted “Professional Sports: Purveyors of Cultural Marxism.” It was about the need for patriotic Americans to boycott professional sports since they’re all on board with the lie of “systemic racism” and trying to shove it down our throats. Well, you can scratch soccer and golf off your list too.
Here’s an article about soccer players taking a knee, getting booed by the few fans who were there and the cluelessness of one of the players who was absolutely baffled by why the fans would do that. The player, Reggie Cannon, put it this way: “We had someone chanting U.S.A., but they don’t understand what kneeling means . . . . They can’t see the reason. They think we’re the ignorant ones. It’s incredibly frustrating. I’m sorry to have this tone, but you have to call it for what it is.”
You got that? You’re the ignorant one. Because you’re sick and tired of everything being ruined by these Marxist lies about “systemic racism!” Because you’re sick and tired of these losers spitting in your face and calling you racist.
And you had to know that golf would get infected as well. Check out this article. Here’s a quote from golfer Kirk Triplett, a new supporter of Black Lives Matter (a Marxist terrorist group devoted to the destruction of America): “This seems like a good venue where this message maybe doesn’t get spread as much, right? Golf’s a very insulated game. For me, personally, I was affected kind of more personally this time and then it seemed like a natural thing, with having an African-American son in the house and having to have these conversations.”
Yeah, it’s a great venue, Kirk, because golf is just too damn white and therefore, too ate up with “systemic racism.”
The only way any of this ever ends is if these people are hurt financially. All professional sports should be boycotted totally by patriotic Americans.
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Sports is paid for by long-term TV contracts, which I don’t think have a ratings related bonus. Thus a TV boycott is useless. Butts in seats will be already be way down from the Wuhan Flu, so a ticket boycott is useless. All the virtue signaling is from social pressure, not monetary. It can be corrected with social pressure.
Honest question: are you being serious or am I missing something?
I was a lifelong Green Bay Packer fan. Bought a share of their “stock” and one for each of my kids out of pride and being able to claim some ownership. I walked for 2 years , and came back last year to watch. And now I’m gone again. I hope the NFL is unable to play at all this year. Thats my fondest wish.
I used to spend literally thousands a year on football.
I had Direct TV so I could get NFL Sunday Ticket. The NFL Game Pass. Went to at least 1 game a year with my family.
That meant airline flights, hotels, restaurants, bars. NFL merchandise for gifts. All done and gone.
This year sadly I am forced to also walk away from my lifelong fandom of the Chicago Cubs, and Chicago Blackhawks.
The worst part is the fact it was something both my kids and I shared together. We have many, many happy, exciting shared memories from those games. And taking that away is what makes me the most angry and bitter toward those ignorant , pompous SJW spoiled millionaires.
I have not watched one minute of the fraudulent “seasons” that are now playing out in baseball, basketball, and hockey. But, assuming that the football season is not some truncated Covid-19 knock-off, you’ll have to pry NFL Red Zone from my cold, dead hands.
You are dead wrong.
TV ratings are critical to advertisers who pay big bucks, and if viewership drops sharply they are going to want to get their money back. The TV networks will put lots of pressure on the league to knock off whatever is driving down those ratings.
No, I don’t think that is the goal. The goal is to exploit opportunities to denigrate the country and to sow discord. Preening athletes are unfortunately now using the ceremonial renditions of the anthem to showcase these provocations.
While I liked seeing the hockey players on the blue line and the baseball players on the baselines (pro football and basketball were already too pathetic), even those events are now being exploited such as I would prefer the athletes just remain in the locker room if they cannot conduct themselves respectfully. It’s an insult to pay admission and then have the anthem ceremony hijacked. If fans do it, bad on them, but I’m not paying to see the fans.
Beyond this, I tend to think that ceremonial things tend to degrade when they become too common and standards are ignored. I think pro sports anthem events support that observation, but I’ll admit to being a bit rigid about this (31 years in the military can have that effect).
I know I’ve already told y’all this but it is so easy for me to give all this up since my teams won both the last World Series and the last Super Bowl.
You are allowed one city/region. That’s the rule.
Watch the sports on TV. See who is advertising. Boycott those who are advertising, and send them letters. I would boycott Nike, but it would have little effect since I don’t buy Nike anyway. I am boycotting REI and Dick’s Sporting Goods, and trying to find alternatives to Amazon.
That’s what happened in 2016-17 after the initial incident with Kaepernick. The networks, which had stopped showing the Anthem prior to NFL games in the late 1970s, in order to squeeze in more commercials, suddenly were giddy to run it prior to every game, so they could show the players who were kneeling. The result by the end of the 2017 regular season was a 10-15% drop in ratings, and the networks had to offer rebates/make-good spots to advertisers, because they had missed their ratings guarantees. That caused them and the league to get together prior to the 2018 season and decide maybe it’s a good idea to go back to not showing the Anthem.
The ratings then went back up the past two seasons. Hard to believe after that, they’re going to Uzi themselves in the foot again in the season opener, by showing players not just kneeling for the Anthem, but kneeling after standing during “Let Ev’ry Voice Sing”. They can’t not know what the reaction will be.
With all the changes in schedules due to the virus scare, I guess I have been unintentionally boycotting baseball and basketball. Not really getting excited about the NFL yet because I don’t know if they are going to have a season or not. So, I think any boycott this year would be blamed on the flu, not their Lefty politics (at least that is what they will tell their advertisers).
For a massive loss of tv viewers who mostly are at home?
Don’t fast forward through the commercials.
Well, there has to be games for them to not watch. If football starts on time and doesn’t get ratings, that’s one thing. But baseball, basketball, and hockey lost a lot of folks when they took several months off. Hard to get excited about an almost season.
And the left tried to hurt the Masters a few years ago and failed.
But I’m not watching games on tv.
Remember that 75% of pro football players are black. Not too many BSEEs among them. The NBA is even more made up of black players. These are people who majored in PE or, like the running back for San Diego 30 years ago, are functionally illiterate. The black kids who go to college for a chance at pro ball need to see what happens when you lose focus on why you are doing it. These black kids have been told by white leftists that this is important but, like most things blacks are told by white leftists, they are lies. I have been a football fan of U of Southern California since the 1950s when I was a student. I had season tickets for 50 years.
As SC trended more leftist in teaching and student activity, the history of football players getting bachelor’s degrees tailed off. SC was always a football school but had a pretty good history of players graduating, usually after they had finished playing. It was kind of a big thing but no more. The school got to even more of a party school than its old reputation, which was always overblown. The scandal of parents’ bribing to get dumb kids admitted was the last straw for me. I was faculty for 50 years. No more.
The golden age under John McKay.
USC recently ‘canceled’ John Wayne, aka Wayne Marion, their most famous alumnus?
It appears that the communist infiltration of academic institutions is complete. I’ll add this to my commentary at @jessemcvay‘s
‘The Crisis’
Think about the America after the National Anthem is effectively marginalized from professional, then inevitably college and high school sports. When do you think most Americans will hear the Star Spangled Banner after that? One of the few things that bound us together nationally, even for just a couple of minutes – that will go away.
It will be as frequent as leap year. These evil sons of bitches on the Left know exactly what they’re doing. They and the advertisers are dead to me.
Everything we are witnessing is planned by the Left. The 2016 election and the embrace of Trump by those of us who can see what is happening must have caused enough reflection by the powers that be in the progressive wing of the Democrat Party to cause them to conclude they don’t want the Trump team to continue with another four years to disrupt their long game.
Well, Dr. James Naismith (invented basketball) is the product of Scottish immigrants, and since I believe 1000% in wokeness and identity politics, demand that all non-Scots leave the NBA. Sorry MJ. Sorry Curry. Sorry LeBron. Give those rings and awards back. [insert Braveheart gif]
But seriously, I refuse to have overpaid children, who are lucky enough to play a game for a living, dictate to me how to think. Ditto their coaches and owners. I owe them positively nothing.
Mark Cuban, if you want to set your franchise and your industry on fire, have fun. Maybe you’re not the “smartest guy in the room” you always thought you were. #Bye
I don’t trust the owners much more than the players. Trick is to make the owners more afraid of us than their players.
Don’t watch a damn thing or buy anything from their advertisers.
Couple that with killing/hurting the woke ESPNs as they leveraged themselves to the hilt to obtain broadcasting rights. It’s a twofer.
The owners do have a bit more of a long-term concern. If you’re an NBA or an NFL player on your second contact, you’ve pretty much got your money — no woke action is going to change that. But if you’re on your first contract, or if you’re a future pro player currently in college of high school, actions by the veteran players that cause a plunge in TV ratings could negatively affect the upcoming negotiations for new contracts with the networks, if they don’t think they can get the ad rates for the lower ratings they’re seeing.
The NFL deals come up over the next two years, and the league might still be able to get their $$$ by playing the broadcast networks off against some of the alternative streaming services. The NBA’s a little different — their current deal still runs through the middle of the decade, but it was a huge contract way above what the ratings were even 6-7 years ago, based on the spin of the time that the NBA was going to pass the NFL in the 2020s as America’s No. 1 sport on television.
Right now, it’s ratings are barely beating the NHL’s numbers, so even if you factor in the streaming services, it’s going to be hard to justify that type of deal again unless ratings change for the better. Won’t matter to LeBron, but that star player in 11th grade might not be happy by 2030.
NHL playoffs have been refreshingly politics free. UFC’s been good too.
Lifelong, third-generation, Kansas City Chiefs super fan here.
I think it depends on what your view of sports is. I love football, I also love movies, art and music. These are all forms of entertainment to me and if I’m not entertained I tune out. I don’t really mind that Ian McKellan, and Scarlett Johansson are nincompoops, The Lord of the Rings and The Avengers are entertaining. Queen is one of my favorite bands but I can enjoy their music without affirming their idiotic personal beliefs (past or present). Where do we draw the line in making sure our entertainers square morally with us?
When it comes to the NFL, for me it’s a TV show. There are seasons, there are performers, and what those performers put up on the screen (or field, or stage) is what I’m interested in. So if Patrick Mahomes kneels for the anthem before the game starts I’ll lose a ton of respect for him as a person, but I’ll still enjoy watching him perform his craft, because it’s entertaining. If tomorrow Tom Hanks were indicted for…something…I would shrug my shoulders and say, “Good,” but I’d still watch Saving Private Ryan every year. One of my favorite new authors is Erik Larson. I have no idea what his opinions regarding BLM, or CHAD etc…are (he lives in Seattle) and I don’t really care; he writes great books.
I go to the movies for the movie, not for the pre-movie commercials, previews, or overpriced soda and popcorn. Likewise I’ll continue to watch football because I love the game, even though I couldn’t care less about the political leanings of a 23-year-old kid, or what he does off-stage.
That, plus the Chiefs are primed for another Super Bowl so…
Special situation. Best player in the league on the best team. I might have to watch them in the next Super Bowl.
I’ve been boycotting for 3 years now. I don’t miss it anymore.
They hate America. They can go to hell.
And they’re so stupid that the probably think that I’m the divisive one.
I believe this is how it works (someone more knowledgeable will correct me):
In those contracts, the networks get paid based on the NFL delivering a certain level of viewship for the advertisements, which are paid for by whoever is doing the advertising. If the NFL doesn’t deliver, the advertisers won’t pay the networks as much for the air time, and in turn the NFL won’t get paid as much.
Long-term contract or not, no entity paying for a service is going to lock in an exorbitantly high price without regard to performance. Think of it as a performance-based fee . . .