Fans actually booed during the "moment of unity" in last night's NFL game
The sports industry now has a negative image, on balance, among Americans as a whole, with 30% viewing it positively and 40% negatively, for a -10 net-positive score. This contrasts with the +20 net positive image it enjoyed in 2019, when 45% viewed it positively and 25% negatively. …
Now, consider this for a second. The booing fans still cared enough to go to the game. What about all those millions who either silently booed while watching it on television or simply didn't tune in at all? If you cannot fill a stadium with enough fans that support the so called "social justice" theme of the NFL, well then you have some mighty large problems to overcome.
But I never thought I would see a time when less than 1/3 of the American public had a positive view of the sports industry. Considering I grew up when sports was considered a backbone of our lives. We planned things around sporting events. Not just the Super Bowl or the World Series, but sports in general.
I remember back when no Sunday during football season was complete without a television on watching the game (or the games). Up until a few years ago, I don't recall missing any Monday Night Football going back to Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Meredith.
I remember when people would wake up at ungodly times on weekends... to watch the finals of Wimbledon. I remember Bjorn Borg and Johnny McEnroe. I remember Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. I remember watching all four rounds of golf tournaments. Jack Nickolas, Tiger Woods, and the excitement of the 18th hole of a Major Tournament. Poor Dustin Johnson wins his first Tour Championship last week and there was nobody there to even cheer.
I remember a time when there was almost a decade long waiting list to get season tickets at Mariucci Arena to watch the Gopher hockey team. I remember the excitement of building new arenas to get professional basketball to Minnesota or to get professional hockey back. Now I don't think I would care.
I still remember being downtown across from the stadium the night the Twins won the 91 World Series. I remember celebrating in the aftermath like it was the greatest thing that ever happened. I remember standing in the Mall of America next to a woman with a young child in a stroller, barely old enough to talk. I remember the little child excitedly pointing up at a Twins uniform hanging in the display window and simply saying the name... "Kirby".
But apparently that was a simpler time when sports were just sports. Can't have that anymore.
5 comments:
the answer is simple:
get woke, go broke.
pro sports, like corporate America, has felt the need to pay some social justice homage, or penance, or more accurately a ransom. blm is a shakedown and systemic racism is a fucking myth. people watch sports to be entertained, not to make political statement.
i walked away from the NBA when Bird retired, and the NFL is dead to me now. i'm a certified baseball nut, but after this year's half-assed attempt at a season i'm not sure how much more patience i can have for that either.
i've witnessed exactly one reaction to the BLM bullshit that i respect -
the boss at Red Bull fired his senior execs when he caught wind of the fact that they were planning some bullshit 'woke' response to get on the bandwagon.
Tensions over racial injustice appear to be creating a rift at Red Bull.
The Austria-based energy drink company fired its top two North American executives amid internal turmoil over the company’s public response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Business Insider first reported.
In an internal memo sent July 13, Red Bull North America confirmed the departures of CEO Stefan Kozak and CMO and President Amy Taylor, whose permanent replacements will be identified “at a later stage.”
The company said in a statement that Red Bull North America executives Alexandre Ruberti, Executive Vice President of Sales, and Marc Rosenmayr, Executive Vice President of Operations Finance, and IT, would temporarily lead the Santa Monica-based North America unit.
Red Bull also reportedly fired its global head of music, entertainment and culture marketing Florian Klaass, and eliminated or scaled back entertainment and culture teams in Canada, the UK and Austria.
The firings came just weeks after employees leaked an internal letter addressed to Kozak and Taylor and signed by over 300 employees in which Red Bull leadership was criticized for what the employees called its “public silence” on the Black Lives Matter movement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglaswigdor/2020/07/28/red-bull-fires-top-executives-as-it-wrestles-with-racism/#c3d54fa3e0df
the only appropriate response to all things BLM & antifa is -
go fuck yourselves.
It's all Obama's fault.
Y’all cheated in ‘91. 😃
The saddest was I was in Champaign-Urbana seeing the Illini play Northwestern the night the Bravos did win the whole thing.
But I got to see one Chief Illiniwek’s last half time dances, before U of I succumbed to pressure
Bring on the DAWGS and the SEC
People are fed up with having someone else's agenda shoved in their faces and being forced to assimilate to bit or else.
Shortly after President Donald Trump’s 2016 inauguration, a co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a group that recently “war-gamed” potential outcomes of the 2020 elections and transition, outlined varying ways to oust Trump including declaring him mentally unfit and carrying out a military coup.
Garnering lots of media attention in recent days, TIP co-founder Rosa Brooks has written numerous op-eds summarizing TIP’s 22-page report, which concluded that anything less than a Biden-Harris landslide will spark catastrophe, including “violence in the streets” and a “constitutional impasse.”
Despite the group’s official non-partisan claim, Brooks’ presence implies otherwise.
Just days after President Trump’s inauguration, Brooks penned an article advocating for his swift removal from office, even going so far as to suggest the military not follow orders.
A Schwartz Senior Fellow at New America, a think tank funded by billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, Brooks served as a senior adviser at the State Department during both the Obama and Clinton administrations.
Writing in Foreign Policy magazine only ten days after President Trump’s inauguration, Brooks suggested four different ways of ridding the new president.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/10/transition-integrity-project-founder-suggested-military-coup-against-trump-days-after-inauguration/
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