I was never much into sports but the "take a knee" and "alternate anthem" things did it for me, especially football. That told me loud and clear they didn't care what I thought and didn't need my money.
The NFL lost me as a fan sometime around 2012 because I watched way too many games rigged by the refs, questionable performance and them forgetting they were supposed to be a sport showcasing the wonder of meritous human achievement in a challenge, not a F*****G social rights NGO! I could no longer stand watching games in November because of all the pink virtueless signalling and preaching, posturing and social commentary on how they thought that made them better than everyone. Before that, I was a life long die hard Packer fan. I'd been to the infamous "Asterisk Game" and seen 4 other games in Lambeau, even in -20 weather.
But since it's only one step shy of the WWE now with DIE/ESG bullshit slathered over everything, police state stadiums and providing minimally viable spectacle, I can't scrape together enough effs to make a pile for them.
If they wanted my fandom back, they'd have to deal with the scripting, official interference, juicing and obvious throwing of games. Till then this is the only way I will come close to enjoying the NFL, for at least it's honest about it and is funny:
I suspect that bars will be willing to pay for streaming, so folks may head there to watch sports.
I never had the attention span for watching sports, so I would read while my family watched football.
Then I learned about the outright blackmail being perpetrated by the teams to get cities to pay for stadiums.
The final straw was the rotten officiating at one of the Super Bowls about 20 years ago (Steelers vs Seahawks), an obviously rigged game, made me never want to watch it again. 🤷♂️
To each his own. I never wanted to get bogged down by being a sports fan. Saw too many relatives and friends fritter away their time (their lives) glued to the TV watching football, baseball, hockey, bowling, golf and even soccer. I'd rather wear out doing things than rust from being sedentary. Says I, who spends too much time clacking away on a keyboard now. But I get around better than my 300 lbs friends with frozen joints. I also have this thing about not wanting to enrich in any way these modern sleezoids who play professional sports (or act and pontificate in Hollywood). I'd sooner sponsor some kid in a 4-H or FFA livestock project and cheer as he or she showed it. The nice thing about commercial enterprises and capitalism is that we are "free to choose" as Milton Friedman said.
I was never much into sports but the "take a knee" and "alternate anthem" things did it for me, especially football. That told me loud and clear they didn't care what I thought and didn't need my money.
I'm done.
The NFL lost me as a fan sometime around 2012 because I watched way too many games rigged by the refs, questionable performance and them forgetting they were supposed to be a sport showcasing the wonder of meritous human achievement in a challenge, not a F*****G social rights NGO! I could no longer stand watching games in November because of all the pink virtueless signalling and preaching, posturing and social commentary on how they thought that made them better than everyone. Before that, I was a life long die hard Packer fan. I'd been to the infamous "Asterisk Game" and seen 4 other games in Lambeau, even in -20 weather.
But since it's only one step shy of the WWE now with DIE/ESG bullshit slathered over everything, police state stadiums and providing minimally viable spectacle, I can't scrape together enough effs to make a pile for them.
If they wanted my fandom back, they'd have to deal with the scripting, official interference, juicing and obvious throwing of games. Till then this is the only way I will come close to enjoying the NFL, for at least it's honest about it and is funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFC9hqTrlE0
I suspect that bars will be willing to pay for streaming, so folks may head there to watch sports.
I never had the attention span for watching sports, so I would read while my family watched football.
Then I learned about the outright blackmail being perpetrated by the teams to get cities to pay for stadiums.
The final straw was the rotten officiating at one of the Super Bowls about 20 years ago (Steelers vs Seahawks), an obviously rigged game, made me never want to watch it again. 🤷♂️
So I read, and now write, for fun. 🙂
To each his own. I never wanted to get bogged down by being a sports fan. Saw too many relatives and friends fritter away their time (their lives) glued to the TV watching football, baseball, hockey, bowling, golf and even soccer. I'd rather wear out doing things than rust from being sedentary. Says I, who spends too much time clacking away on a keyboard now. But I get around better than my 300 lbs friends with frozen joints. I also have this thing about not wanting to enrich in any way these modern sleezoids who play professional sports (or act and pontificate in Hollywood). I'd sooner sponsor some kid in a 4-H or FFA livestock project and cheer as he or she showed it. The nice thing about commercial enterprises and capitalism is that we are "free to choose" as Milton Friedman said.