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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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Dead serious. Players get yelled and cursed at all the time by the other team’s fans. But if their home crowd starts to rag on them? Hopefully they’ll “feel the love” and realize the people in the crowd are bigger fans of our country than the players.
Yes, you missed something, but that was because I failed to include this explanation.
That’s why the NFL’s network partners had to pay rebates or run free ads during the 2017 season. Advertisers love live sports, because it’s the one place you can’t fast-forward through the ads, so they’re paying premium prices for X-number of viewers the network assures them they’re going to get.
When work messaging causes X to come in 10-15 percent below the guaranteed number, advertisers get angry, and the networks’ finance departments get worried (and you can be reasonably sure that the push came from there in 2018 to get with the NFL to cut down on the SJW pandering on things like showing players kneeling — if it had been up to the top execs or some of the woke on-air talent based on ideology alone, they never would have stopped showing players kneeling for the Anthem. It was only the potential for big financial losses that forced them to change their strategy, and the same thing probably will happen in 2021, if the NFL and the networks haven’t already figured out they better back off their planned 2020 progressive virtue signaling).
Don’t forget the NHL is in the middle of the very exciting the Stanley Cup playoffs.
I want all pro-sports off my cable package. I don’t know if I can get it done but I’m gonna try.
I can think of one way to do it:
See what I said there in the first sentence. I don’t know this to be a fact, so I’m speculating. I sure would like to be able to confirm it though. It just seems to me that some of these young people deeply involved in the protests in places like Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and New York must have parents, or even siblings, who don’t approve of the approach being used to address abuse in police enforcement of laws and who might have some valid information about how this movement is being managed. The protests are actually at the correct level and directed to the proper authorities who are then proposing the wrong solutions like ‘defunding the police’. How is that happening? Any clues here. If it is Soros, what is the mechanism leading to the organized activities.
Most recent. “Last” has a different connotation in this context.
Yes, but do the players and others involved get that?
Why? With respect, aren’t you cutting off your nose to spite your face? I’d say the importance of continuing a long-standing, enjoyable tradition with my kids and friends buries sending some vague message to annoying strangers.
Yeah, even though he’s not playing anymore, Brett Favre’s comparison of Kaepernick to Pat Tillman would have done it for me.
I will miss football but this country is worth more than the (temporary) enjoyment I receive from watching it. Perhaps I can be accused of “cutting off my nose to spite my face” but I’ll find something to take its place.
There are some things that are so wrong, they can never be justfied…
Missed that, but it certainly speaks to one too many helmet to helmet hits.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/21/brett-favre-colin-kaepernick-pat-tillman-nfl-protest/
Apparently, Favre realized he had messed up his image/marketability with that quote, because last month he got the left angry at him for doing this:
(Farve’s also dyed his hair orange during the worst of the COVID lockdown period, so maybe in retirement he’s decided to become the NFL’s Dennis Rodman….)
Yeah, that name won’t last. Still plan to be a fan of the Kansas City Football Team?
I recognize this wasn’t a response to me, but let me point out that I don’t see it as the same enjoyable tradition when that now involves disrespecting the anthem and projecting support of a marxist racist violent organization in BLM. I will not ‘share’ that environment with my grandchildren.
It’ll last. This stupidity will pass.
I thought that for years. Then the stupidity won. I do not intend to be a fan of the Washington Football Team.
The Redskins’ situation is a little different. Many in the woke media equate the term Redskin with a racial slur. I guess only an American indian can really say whether or not that’s true. I’ve got at least one Native Alaskan friend who’s a Dallas Cowboys fan, so he hates the Redskins for other reasons but he never mentioned that. Chief on the other hand is a title that warrants respect.
Of course, if I were a Skins fan I’d probably bolt too, but not because of their inept marketing department.
The Arizona Republic ran a story last month on teams at or near reservations whose high schools have the nickname Redskins and have no plans to get rid of the nickname. The main push for the change, as with a lot of cancel culture, appears to have come from angry white progressives and a few Native Americans who are more Democratic Party activists/shills than anything else, as with Ray Halbritter in upstate New York.
Liberal“Progressive” White Women are frequently offended on behalf of others.The Washington Post was poised to attack the name “Redskins” some years back. One sportswriter said he wouldn’t use the name. Then the Post commissioned a national poll of Native Americans who overwhelmingly did not care and of those that did, those who liked the name significantly outnumbered those who did not. Dan Snyder then told everybody demanding a name change to buzz off thus creating a rare moment when Skins fans liked him. The issue had faded until the new Woke wave.
Chiefs, a ‘cultural appropriation’, is offensive to many a woke white woman. Just using the word for a position title is under attack: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/duluth-minnesota-mayor-remove-chief-microaggresion
I hope they don’t stamp out your team name. I have very little confidence they won’t. NFL has gone all in with appeasement of the left, and that, once started, never ends. ( The Eagles may be next. I hear that is a Nazi bird now. . .)
Don’t be surprised when they come after “Patriots.” It’s white nationalism, you know.
Oh yeah, of the worst kind…
Snyder had to give in not because Native Americans were all fired up against the name, but because the woke scolds had gotten to the NFL’s corporate partners, including FedEx, that has naming rights on the team’s Landover stadium. None of the corporations really give a damn what the Native Americans think — it’s the angry urban white progressives with disposable income that forced the team to eliminate the name, or face a drop in financial support.
That, and Danny wants some real estate in D.C. so he can move the team. The team name is part of the grease.
Do I need to worry, my middle name is O’Neil.
And the kicker is that I don’t see how any of these corporations are actually financially vulnerable to the scolds. Will companies start sending staff to us the post office so to boycott FedEx? If leftists boycott Budweiser will Anheuser-Busch go down in flames like Chik-Fail-A or Hobby Lobby (ha, ha)? What if anything do Antifa or BLM regulars buy (rather than loot)?
This phenomenon is solely a function of the corporate bureaucracies being comprised of woke college grads, terrified of being seen as villains on social media. If even a few of these CEOs said no, there could have been almost instant herd immunity to this BS.
And overwhelmed by self guilt. They don’t care if it helps or hurts business, they just are implementing what they were taught – that nothing comes before SJW woke policy.
True. Not that any surrounding area of D.C. is poor, due to all the federal tax dollar lucre showered on the region, but the real $$$$ is to the west of the city, in Virginia, and in Montgomery County, Md., and even with the team’s training camp sites, that’s the market Snyder really wants to cater to.