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Too bad commissioners, players, union reps and agents won't read this thread. I have spent more time turkey hunting in may and trout fishing than I have in years. I am trying to book my next fishing trip. If there's no football, that gives me more time to hunt.
I don't think any of these leagues will get their heads out of their collective asses until teams start folding and players jobs are lost. MLB is a great example. The majority don't care about the fans, other than our wallets. I would 100% miss football, but it wouldn't be the end of the world that I once thought it was.
I think all professional sports leagues are about to shoot themsleves in the foot. People watch sports as an escape, and now these leagues think it is their job to "educate" thier fanbases. The NBA will most likley cease to exist soon, I really don't need a high school dropout telling me I'm not educated enough to understand something. I will be done with the NFL if they go through with their cop hating agenda.
Even NASCAR is bending the knee at the alter of these terrorists! They might be the first to go, talk about not knowing your audience!
I saw that the ESPYs were on last night, that used to be a fun night of entertainment, I didn't even think of putting it on because I knew just from the hosts, that it was going to be more left wing lunacy.
Nobody turns on a baseball game because they want to hear Bob Costa's political opinoins, nobody watches the NFL to see some guy champion killing cops. Here is a news flash, people turn on sports to watch sports and not get preached to! I would be saying the same thing if they were preaching right wing politics.
I ran into the same thing when I dumped MLB. I got into chess and also my golf handicap went down.
Here's a game from my era, when The Bird brought life to MLB. Even us Red Sox fans liked the kid. After this game the Tiger fans wouldn't leave until he came out again.''
Here's a game from my era, when The Bird brought life to MLB. Even us Red Sox fans liked the kid. After this game the Tiger fans wouldn't leave until he came out again.''
I have kinda given up on MLB. Current Sox ownership blows with the prevailing winds far too much. They talk down to the fan base, and pander to the pink hats. Have a plan, execute it, and stick with it. One year they are cheap SOBs, the next year they spend like drunken sailors because they got killed in the press the year prior. In general, the game is so GD boring I can't stand it. I have never been much of an NBA fan, I am a casual Bruins fans. I love playoff hockey, but I am far from a student of the game. I don't have a lot invested, so I don't miss it much. Football will hurt come those late fall Sundays when the clocks are set back and it's not quite Christmas yet.
I think we lose interest in general with sports as we get older. Back in the Big Bad Bruins days I'd be furious as I watched games, wanting to see one of the Bruins take off some opponent's head. In 1976 I was so crushed by the Dreith Theft that I can still feel it today. That would have been the Pats' 1st Lombardi.
As for the Globe and Saux owner, he showed his true colors when he had a reunion of the 2004 team and didn't invite Curt Schilling, one of the key players. That's about as petty as a man can get.
Eskimo pies are no more.
Indian candy cant be far behind.
Second that Deus. No need for that crap.Why post that? What's wrong with you?
Wait....there's more!
The Redskins? Yet most Native Americans are more offended by the mascots and war hoops by a recent poll taken by liberal news organizations. It's the rich kid and college activist professor molded "pale faces" that are making the stink. Mascots and war hoops? Kansas City Chiefs....you are going down!!!! Florida Seminoles...et.tu!
Buffalo Bills? How many guys named William are justly offended!!!! The Dallas Cowboys? Where are the LBGT marchers....Didn't you all see the epic Brokeback Mountain?
University of Washington and Washington State are nyet. Oregon Ducks and Michigan Wolverines, where's PETA. Washington and Lee University is really in the crapper. Columbus Ohio? wow. Jacksonville Florida...are you kidding? The Mississippi Rebels are now a racist group.....yea but what about UNLV? Gambling Rebels? Shouldn't the Rebels stick together? Lincoln Nebraska....pure racist. All episodes of the "Jeffersons" need to be removed from television archives now. Johnny Yuma as "The Rebel" him too. Every Rambler Rebel must be burned....right away!! (it was a car if you don't remember)....now what will we do about the Lincoln Continental that is systemic racist in both name and appeal to rich guys. Indian Motorcycles should be shamed right away......... Then there is Boston Mass. Where is the outrage? We savagely beat down the British Red Coats. Perhaps that is what the demonstrations are about in the UK?
Yes I do not miss sports. When sports became a political weapon I smelled a rat. In fact every day I miss the NFL less and Less. I don't like to be lectured by rich African American athletes or any other race color or creed even aliens telling me how bad they had it when my upbringing was perhaps less fortunate than their's from the onset. You have bullies in the NFL telling other players what they should not or should bow down to or believe.
If you want to witness the Star Spangled Banner before a sporting event, the athlete who we fund by watching say...YOU MUST..... watch us kneel and throw up our clenched fist ala Black Power, into the air as a fee for watching a sporting event. Seems fair to some.
A few "woke" examples are on the Patriots. That a way to go to pretend your social media justice warrior stuff has to be forced on us like we are children or too stupid to figure it out for ourselves......and oh by the way how dare us have our own opinions.
Kap and his pig socks and communist t shirt is now a hero. When can we erect his statue to take the place of those the thugs (sorry....activist freedom fighters) have removed with Kap's?
Baseball is boring. I can't identify with the NBA......something about Mr. Superstar NBA player saying we should lay off China (communism, oppression and all that we protest here) ....something else about paying his enormous salary. Why can't we march and riot to the NBA that there are not more short white, uncoordinated players in the League with Great Clips or better yet Sports Clips haircuts or worse and where are their Bentley's and McLarens!!!!! No chaufers...no piece!!!
Soccer. The only thing exciting is the announcer when there is an actual goal in a game once in a while. The rest of the time young men in shorts run around a lot (see Brokeback Mountain)
NHL Beauty ehh! I will watch it upon occasion but every name now is a tongue twister. I knew how to pronounce the Plager brothers and Gordie Howe.......Hull, Orr even Teddy Green. Look how short their names were for crying out loud. The nicknames were classics....Gump, Pie, the Hammer, Tiger, the Rocket, Golden Jet etc. Even the French names were cool as most started with La....or Le
PGA ? I have my name and picture with a hash line going though on the blacklist of most local golf courses suggesting I am more of an "agricultural" golfer. Hitting the longest divot is my game, but even they hook. I think Kap and I should join up. He can kneel and I can wince.
I do watch NASCAR. At least I can drive. No physical requirements needed.....well glasses. NASCAR even hands out its own licenses. Driving Route 128 should qualify me for the pole but crazy moms in mini-vans have the best speed.....and in bad weather, their lap times go up!
Tennis? the grunts sound like the hospital labor room.
Back to football. NFL please make a choice. Are you a sport or a political network?
I am blessed to have options and pray for peace. I hope this does not go even worse as some who are evil reach for the rudder.
Hope to all of you.
DW Toys
Sports was something I watched with my dad. We went to games with his union on a regular basis. It was a guy thing and I enjoyed the 'event' and the comradery. When I was very young, I soldered an earphone jack into my Mickey Mouse radio so I could listen to the Sox after my bedtime. My dad always knew about this, but kept it from my mother. It was one of our secrets.I don't miss the rest of them.