Sports now fully engaged in politics

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/23/politi...nse/index.html

Trump has engaged on the other side of the kneeling debate. Sports used to be one last place where partisan politics wasn't an issue, but the Progressives started creeping in at ESPN and the know-knothing-Kneelers protested the country that gives them the right to protest. So Trump bit on the other side and the Progressives, who even have infected NASCAR, don't have national sports as their podium.

Just another way that Trump, who might not be doing the right thing, is at least pointing out the problems and hastening hopefully a reset.

[RazorBurn]

This is from 2015, but at least there are some people out there who "get it"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRJvl2TkNk

[Averageman]

I gave up on the NFL about five years ago.

[Pilot1]

Sports, and the sports media are notoriously Liberal/Progressive, like most of corporate America. The NFL especially is overly PC also. I do still watch my home team, but that is it. I watch that one game, and sometimes not even that if I am out, and about. It is just not that great a product anymore, and with the politics seeping in, it has gotten lame. These players can pick any TV, radio, or internet outlet to protest, and tell people why America is still oh so OPPRESIVE to Blacks, but they choose to steal airtime, use their teams uniforms, venues, and fans to Virtue Signal how self righteous they are.

[Dist. Expert 26]

Have you been forced to watch ESPN in the past couple years? I see it at the gym and they're seldom ever discussing matters pertinent to sports. It's usually political in some nature or just plain drama.

Just unplug. You'll be happier as a result.

[skywalkrNCSU]

Have you been forced to watch ESPN in the past couple years? I see it at the gym and they're seldom ever discussing matters pertinent to sports. It's usually political in some nature or just plain drama.

Just unplug. You'll be happier as a result.

This. I watch the games and nothing else. If you are too thin skinned to be able to enjoy sports because some guy took a knee then I guess maybe we should make a safe space for that. I love sports, I don't care about any athletes politics, therefore I just don't pay attention to anything they say and enjoy the game.

That said, Trump looks like such a baby throwing a temper tantrum after he rescinded the offer he never officially made to the Warriors to come to the White House.

[sjc3081]

Look at your cable bill see that $5 charge in the tax/fee section. That for ESPN.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

This. I watch the games and nothing else. If you are too thin skinned to be able to enjoy sports because some guy took a knee then I guess maybe we should make a safe space for that. I love sports, I don't care about any athletes politics, therefore I just don't pay attention to anything they say and enjoy the game.

That said, Trump looks like such a baby throwing a temper tantrum after he rescinded the offer he never officially made to the Warriors to come to the White House.

It's not that I'm thinned skin, it is that hyper-partisan politics practiced by the lowest-information people has been crepping into more and more aspects of our lives. And that is a bad thing. It's not just the McNeal-Lehrer hour every night and The Sunday Morning shows, it is everywhere. And, since the lefts issues are all confounded with civil rights, you can't barely question them, while the people on the right are silenced- and especially with anyone with a religious affiliation.

I played sports through college, but it isn't the recent anti-American craziness that made me stop watching sports, it was the millionaire athletes and billionaire owners that turned me off. Make a tackle and act like you've been there before. OJ may be a multimurder, but at least he had the class not to go all primate-crap crazy after a touchdown. Watch his highlight reels. Cross the goal line, drop the ball back. I like sports, not showmanship.

It's the hyper political polarization based on the least impactful issues with the wrong solution offered in the most tangential of venues that I think is bad for our country.

[Averageman]

ESPN turned in to as dumbed down version of "Meet the Press" for jock sniffers

[SteyrAUG]

Not exactly new.



But I don't imagine things are getting better.

Athletes are just another form of celebrity who believe that because people listen to them, they must share their views on subjects that they may know absolutely nothing about.