Defund the Police? How about Defund Professional Sports?

[ReinyDays]

Of course we wouldn't do that. The liberal would expect us to pay for their lunch.

Have the liberals meet the conservatives right after church? ...

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Of course we wouldn't do that. The liberal would expect us to pay for their lunch.

Have the liberals meet the conservatives right after church? ...

How would they find one?

 

[Zorro!]

Gallup Poll: Public Favorability Towards Corporate Spectator Sports Falls THIRTY POINTS, from +20 to -10, in a Single Year

I hope professional athletes have an idea of what they might like to do as a second job.

Oh, and good luck getting the public to pay for your stadiums and arenas!

Sports had a precipitous fall since last summer, especially among Republicans and Independents. See the chart below:

It takes two months to make a habit, and it takes two weeks to break a habit.

All of entertainment is determined to alienate their audiences.

They think that if they go too far, they can later pull back from nonstop leftist/Marxist/Maoist propaganda and the audience will just naturally come back.

Nope. People are breaking old habits now, and it's harder to form habits (or re-form them) than to break them.

People have been using the large amount of time required to be a sports fan for other purposes. They've formed new habits of living which are incompatible with watching 4+ (maybe even 12) hours of sports per week.

Why would they come back? These are trivial pastimes. One's as good as another.

I don't know why -- maybe just competition from other genres -- but the country almost completely stopped buying rock music twenty years ago.

Rock music sales never just naturally "came back." Habits do not form without an external reason to form them.

Once rock lost its association with coolness and youth, it was just done.

It's too late for sports to get the audience back. It's like falling out of love-- once you've passed from frustration to anger to indifference, you just don't care anymore. That person is no longer attractive to you.

America has fallen out of love with Corporate Sports Entertainment/Marxist Indoctrination.

Of the 25 industries listed, the only ones with a worse net negative rating than sports in aggregate are pharmaceuticals (-15) and federal government (-20).

And we are never getting back together.

One parting shot, also from the Outkick article:

Well done, fellas. You were becoming millionaires just by playing children's games.

Good luck moonlighting at Foot Locker.

A friend sent me this tip: ESPN started a #Woke controversy by talking about Extreme Woke Shit instead of sports, as usual, and is now covering the reaction to the story they themselves started.

They start the Woke Controversy, then they spend hours covering themselves.

This is the FIRST TIME IN SPORTS HISTORY THAT ALL FOUR MAJOR PROFESSIONAL LEAGUES -- BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, HOCKEY, and FOOTBALL -- ARE PLAYING AT THE SAME TIME.

IN FACT, ADD A FIFTH -- MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER IS ALSO PLAYING RIGHT NOW.
BUT RATHER THAN TALK ABOUT THE
5IVE 5UCKING SPORTS LEAGUES PLAYING RIGHT NOW

#WokESPN WOULD STILL RATHER FILL UP AIRTIME WITH #WOKE POLITICS.

WokESPN

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