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Seems Blacks make up ~15% of the US population, but ~70% of NBA and NFL players. How does racial justice and equality fit here?

So they're boycotting the racist policy of merit-based hiring and demanding affirmative action for white players?

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Originally posted by Flashlightboy:
And the one day boycott of themselves is over.

Their sacrifices and hardships in these trying times is just inspirational.





Martin Luther King, Jr must be rolling in his grave over this nonsense.

I really, really wish I could boycott the NBA in its entirety, but since I've been doing that for the past 7 or 8 years, I got nothing. All I can offer is a sincere wish for the league to go out of business very soon.

and they'll continue to collect their contract pay checks...

The NBA ceased to exist to me after the 1998 Finals when Jordan retired for the second time.

That was a guy who loved the game and put everything he had on the line for the game.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Well, screw the NHL now. They are postponing games tonight.

The NHL started their bullshit a few weeks ago with kneeling, a banner and releasing a video about social justice.

One of the few great things about 2020, like the Democrats, sports morons like the NBA are stripping down naked as far as showing their stupidity, their SJW snowflake bullshit, their hypocrisy. Ratings are drastically down for these assholes. Their core audience is shrinking everyday. Hardly anybody misses them and their stupid games anymore. More folks are realizing life is more important than professional sports.

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Originally posted by oddball:
One of the few great things about 2020, like the Democrats, sports morons like the NBA are stripping down naked as far as showing their stupidity, their SJW snowflake bullshit, their hypocrisy. Ratings are drastically down for these assholes. Their core audience is shrinking everyday. Hardly anybody misses them and their stupid games anymore. More folks are realizing life is more important than professional sports.

It's true. People are spending time with their familes, reading, or doing stuff outdoors. I love sports, but you are spot on.

It is kind of sad really. Sports has always been the great equalizer, doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from when you see someone wearing your team’s gear there’s instantly a common bond.

The problem with athletes and “celebrities” in general is they’ve been conditioned to believe they are more than entertainers. They think they represent some higher moral authority and have more influence than they do, or should anyway.

Maybe, hopefully, as ratings tank and revenue drops they’ll fall off their high horses and impact reality. Wishful thinking probably.

Pussies. They're gonna give the gift of playing again this week.

Come on. Get committed to something. You want to quit to protest, then QUIT!

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
I really, really wish I could boycott the NBA in its entirety, but since I've been doing that for the past 7 or 8 years, I got nothing. All I can offer is a sincere wish for the league to go out of business very soon.

Amen brother!

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Originally posted by Puckpilot78:
Maybe, hopefully, as ratings tank and revenue drops they’ll fall off their high horses and impact reality. Wishful thinking probably.

Not my wishful thinking at all. I want all of them to ride this idiocy all the way to the big boom. Just like Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove. Especially the NFL. Let another organization build another league from the ashes.
Jackasses.

Those SOBs in the NBA got involved and now the Salt Lake soccer own may have to sell his MLS team. Evidently, his fans were in their seats and the players decided to cancel the game and he was rightly not happy about it.

https://www.deseret.com/sports...d-what-actions-taken

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Miki Turner, a Seattle Sounders fan and lawyer in Washington, combed through the MLS constitution on Thursday and found a clause that an owner can be forced to sell if a two-thirds majority of owners believe an owner didn’t act in the best interest of the league.

They also got every owner to open their areas for polling stations on election day.Fine. No mail in voting then in any of these states.

As posted in American Thinker a couple of days ago. This goes for college and high school sports too.

https://www.americanthinker.co...st_sports_again.html

Advice to woke pro sports: Try doing just sports again

You know the old joke. I went to the fights, and a hockey game broke out. Today it's more like I was watching a left-wing political rally, and an NBA game broke out.

It is impossible to watch a sporting event these days without being lectured by the players, owners, leagues, and networks. What American sports needs is a good dose of Ricky Gervais, like when he roasted Hollywood during the Golden Globes for its nonstop politicking.

I'm no Ricky Gervais, and this is more of a rant than humor but here it goes.

Dear professional athletes:

You are remarkably talented at dribbling a basketball or throwing a football or baseball, but at your young age, you most likely know very little about life and history, especially the nuances of race relations in America, capitalism, global warming, or whatever else you're prattling on about. You're in no position to lecture anyone about anything, except maybe how to dunk a basketball.

But hey, the great thing about America is that it is your right to speak out if you want, even if you're a fool. But please do this on your own time and not at work. Please stop annoying the hell out of the paying customers. One final tip, if I may: Your rants about how you've been disadvantaged by growing up in horrible America will come off as more genuine if you aren't posing in front of your Bentleys when you're doing them.

Dear sports leagues and team-owners:

Stop treating your fans and customers as if they are racist, homophobic, uneducated rubes with little or no moral character. How rude. That is a horrible way to treat a paying customer. You're in no position to lecture anyone on anything. If anything, it is your team or league that has a history of racism and cutting deals with human rights–abusers like China, not your fans. Also, please stop shoving a communist front organization down our throats on players' uniforms and playing fields. And oh, by the way, saying all lives matter isn't racist, but disavowing those who say it is.

The tradition of playing "The Star Spangled Banner" before athletic events started during World War I as an act of patriotism. Since you have no will to prevent your players from disgracing the National Anthem, just stop playing it. I'd rather not have the anthem played if by playing it, we have to stand by and watch as millionaire players do the equivalent of giving America the finger during it.

Stop changing your names and traditions just because some two-bit activists tell you to. The Washington Football Team is a stupid moniker. One clue to the clueless: The activists represent themselves, not those whom they say they speak for. If you really give a damn about American Indians, send some of the proceeds from your TV contracts to help with the poverty, poor educational system, and the lack of proper medical facilities, and to stop substance abuse that happens on reservations. How does eliminating words and symbols like Indians, braves, squaws, tomahawks help them? It just pushes them farther on the margins of American consciences.

Dear sports networks:

Watch your own broadcasts sometime. The quality sinks lower each year along with the morality. You're in no position to lecture anyone about anything.

Your sporting broadcasts are supposed to be entertaining. Stop firing your on-air talent when they say things like all lives matter or harassing them when they make a joke about women being a distraction to hockey players in the NHL bubble. Are we to pretend that men have not been distracted by women since the dawn of time? It's called biology. Look it up sometime, and not on Wikipedia.

Here's a tip for you. Go to YouTube and watch Harry Caray broadcasting an old White Sox game. At times he was clearly drunk on air, butchered the players' names, talked about their ethnicities as well as good-looking women in the stands. Everyone loved Harry Caray because he was entertaining and fun to listen to. There is nothing fun about the new generation of sports broadcasters, who sound like an old Pravda TV announcer telling us the virtues of Leonid Brezhnev.

American sports fans are being pushed around. If they are pushed any farther, we will have an Atlas Shrugged moment on our hands.

Do any of those "Pro"s realize that we watch(ed) them to get away from life's hassles? Good Lord, I was a Sunday NFL couch potato, now I'm done. Over with, Kaput, Done, Moved on. Fuck them. Really fun to hold hands with wife doing whatever?

I have never been a big sports fan, sure I would watch an occasional NFL game, and most superbowl games. I just never cared for most sports. I am through watching sports, fuck'em!

The backlash begins

https://www.dailywire.com/news..._campaign=benshapiro

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Utah U.S. House candidate Burgess Owens defended Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder last week, after the coach faced criticism for donating twice to Republican Owens’ campaign.

Owens, a former NFL defensive back and Super Bowl champion, is a critic of Black Lives Matter and racial injustice protests by NBA players -- while Snyder has been a vocal supporter of BLM and has kneeled with his team during the national anthem, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

“How much do ‘black lives matter’ to the people upset that a good man donated to the states ONLY BLACK CANDIDATE running for Congress, because he disagrees with their stance on BLM Inc.,” Owens tweeted Friday along with a retweet of a Tribune article reporting the donations. “Do black lives only matter when they think how you tell them to?”

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...er-donation-scrutiny

All the TV commercials this opponent runs all point out Owens's alleged 6 Bankruptcy filings and that Owens and Trump will bring back Nuclear Bomb Testing back to Utah.