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2020-07-15 -PC Follies

Yet Another Beatdown - What If They Restarted Sports And No One Came

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Posted by Mercutio 2020-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Sports? What's that?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-07-15 04:22|| 2020-07-15 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Up until a week or two back, I was kind of hoping we'd get pro sports back, if only to have something vaguely 'normal' going on.

Not any more. At this point, nothing could make me happier than to see a couple of major league teams simply crater and go under. Mind you, we'll be patted on the head and told that it simply could NOT be for all the obvious reasons - but it would certainly put the fear of God into some people.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-07-15 04:35|| 2020-07-15 04:35|| Front Page Top

Nothing scheduled here. No Christians on their knees, no lions or gladiators. The public taste in sports continues to change.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-15 04:40|| 2020-07-15 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The entertainment industry has long been overrated and overpaid. If you want to pay them back for all their love, kill the Mouse copyright of 100 years+. Back to 14 years with an extension of another 14 years for the individual artist. Suddenly, proper perspective will come to the venture.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-15 07:24|| 2020-07-15 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Is it possible that Covid has taught millions of American males that they cal live without professional sports?

Posted by b 2020-07-15 07:47|| 2020-07-15 07:47|| Front Page Top

#6 An alternate view if I may:

People channel their passions into sports. A healthy anger release at hating the Yankees or Patriots or whatever. Covid that down and all hell broke loose.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-15 11:28|| 2020-07-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 A healthy anger release at hating the Yankees or Patriots or whatever. Covid that down and all hell broke loose.

But really, only one side has unleashed hell.

And if sportsball comes back, I'm concerned the normies will all go back to sleep.

Personally, I'm in favor of shutting all pro/college wokeball down.

It'll deprive the left of a means of propagandizing; it will cut into the revenues of people who've made no bones about their hostility to Real America; normies will have less to distract them from what's really happening in this country.

Not to mention all the double standards in the enforcement (and lack thereof) of the shutdowns.

If it's so vital to have shutdowns, then non-essential activities like pro sportsball should be among those bearing the brunt.

Posted by charger 2020-07-15 13:07|| 2020-07-15 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Patrick Mahomes signed a 10 year, $450,000,000 contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, including a $10,000,000 signing bonus, $141,481,905 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $45,000,000

That'll pay for some homeless housing.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-15 13:57|| 2020-07-15 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Wonder if the chiefs have a taxpayer subsidized arena.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-15 15:09|| 2020-07-15 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Gave up basketball when I got married - wife couldn't stand the sound of the squeaking sneakers. Gave up baseball when two sets of millionaires struck the World Series. Gave up football when they tolerated disrespecting the country. Gave up hockey when basketball drove the local team out of our arena. They won't miss me because I've been gone awhile.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-07-15 19:40|| 2020-07-15 19:40|| Front Page Top

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