Protesting is taking a day off of work to play video games at home? LOL. Nothing wrong with that, but lets call it what it is.. weak virtue signaling
America's sports are ruined by politics https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/29/americas-sports-are-ruined-politics/
No-----no they aren't. They're ruined by racism in 2020. Racism is not politics, though some want to turn it into that.
Good luck with your assertions. These grossly overpaid athletes will get little sympathy from those who enjoy sports. Sports should be a haven from political turmoil not part of it. People watch sports as an escape; especially in the era of COVID with few sports on TV. The prevailing attitude among most sports fans is that they need to shut-up and play. Fans may tolerate protests like kneeling for the national anthem, but few will tolerate these overpaid athletes refusing to play -- and thus providing entertainment.
That's exactly the purpose... To get people boiled over the talk and bitch about the issues so that the world knows they will no longer be silent and they don't want anyone else to be silent especially so near to an Election. You want to be outspoken, pssst people off, rally people and when you accomplish that on social media (twitter, Youtube, tiktok etc)...they've accomplish their goal. Look at ET Political section...the protesters must be loving this place and its the reaction they want from BOTH sides of the coin. I bet people now wish what Colin Kaepernick did wasn't so bad...peacefully protesting. No government has ever survived social unrest when millions of its population are unemployed with a ton of bent up energy. The scary thing is now Universities are back in session...students will mobilize together more quickly especially in cities that has several universities. My point, the next 2 months will see more shootings / violence on both sides as people become more fed up with each other within a facade of a "Law & Order" government...that picture obviously not occurring because there's to much going on into an election. All of this is happening under Trump...not under Biden. wrbtrader
I don't know if it's ruined or not; if they'll "get sympathy" or not. Those weren't my assertions. My point is simply: politics is not the blame. Politics is part of society, and should be. Racism shouldn't be. The athlete's are doing what they're doing because of racism, THEY SAID why they're doing what they're doing: racism.
Whenever that happen...sports usually strike back...literally. Hockey did it, MLB did it, NFL did it, Countries don't go to the Olympics in protest... Push them too much they walk away and shut down the entire season. Team owners already losing millions of dollars from the Pandemic and still bleeding without the fans in these playoffs and without the sports on the university level. Athletes can sit it out a year...team owners traditionally can not. On the flip side, I've been watching sports in other countries because the media has contracted with more baseball, more soccer and more other sports I've never ever watch. I think they are preparing things will get worst and preparing to abandon U.S. sports. Look at my TV guide...I saw schedule South Korean baseball games...WTF ? wrbtrader
It is interesting to note that in the recent NBA situation it was a good number of the team owners supported the sperspective that they should just end the season. They simply did not want to deal with the strike. Revenue had already taken a big hit and was diving to near zero with just a little potential TV revenue from the games coming it. The other reality is that the team owners are scared of liability and problems related to any NBA COVID breakout (which is what many pointed to as a good reason to end the season).