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Keep Politics Out of Sports
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:16 pm
But please allow me to foot the bill for publicly-funded sports stadiums and arenas, yes daddy.
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Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:19 pm to AlonsoWDC
I think the next time this issue pops up for a city, the team will get laughed at.
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:19 pm to AlonsoWDC
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Keep Politics Out of Sports But please allow me to foot the bill for publicly-funded sports stadiums and arenas, yes daddy.
Why can't we get rid of both?
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:21 pm to AlonsoWDC
run along and go polish those participation trophys
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:25 pm to AlonsoWDC
A better example would be, keep politics out of sports but make a huge show out of honoring the military and becoming a propaganda commercial for the armed forces.
Politics have been part of sports for a long, long time.
Politics have been part of sports for a long, long time.
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:26 pm to AlonsoWDC
Someone sees viral tweets
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:38 pm to AlonsoWDC
If it’s a dome, a city can realistically use it for many, many things like concerts, conventions, trade shows, and everything in between. I can kind of understand that. Outdoor stadiums in the north and northern Midwest? I don’t get.
ETA, but let me also add while I get the dome thing, I don’t like it.
ETA, but let me also add while I get the dome thing, I don’t like it.
This post was edited on 9/15/20 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:44 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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If it’s a dome, a city can realistically use it for many, many things like concerts, conventions, trade shows, and everything in between
The Metrodome was used something like 300 days out of the year whereas Lambeau Field at one point was used 4 days out of the year. (Early 1990s) Hell AT&T Stadium gets a lot of use as well for various functions as does Reliant Stadium in Houston.
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:50 pm to BluegrassBelle
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better example would be, keep politics out of sports but make a huge show out of honoring the military and becoming a propaganda commercial for the armed forces.
Politics have been part of sports for a long, long time.
Yep
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:50 pm to bad93ex
Problem is real estate rights. Tampa Rays wanted the city to build a new stadium, assume maintenance, and give all surrounding real estate rights to the owner. When the city council said "wtf?", the owner threatened to move the team.
Posted on 9/15/20 at 1:57 pm to BluegrassBelle
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A better example would be, keep politics out of sports but make a huge show out of honoring the military and becoming a propaganda commercial for the armed forces
So giving shine to normal everyday Americans who have committed to protecting our country from enemies both foreign and domestic is bad now?
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:13 pm to bad93ex
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So giving shine to normal everyday Americans who have committed to protecting our country from enemies both foreign and domestic is bad now?
No. Just stop so shameless and political about it.
What? You think those 95000 square foot American Flags at NFL games are obnoxious? DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:20 pm to lsutigers1992
Stop the fly overs! Stop the national anthems! Never happen
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:22 pm to lsutigers1992
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No. Just stop so shameless and political about it.
I would think military service and honoring veterans would be apolitical but here we are
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:23 pm to bad93ex
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would think military service and honoring veterans would be apolitical but here we are
Not anymore
The left openly hates them
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:25 pm to bad93ex
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I would think military service and honoring veterans would be apolitical but here we are
Well, all wars are political and all service is not what the people that are so gung-ho about it think it is either. Actually having a military was something the Patriots were against.
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:28 pm to AUCE05
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Tampa Rays
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threatened to move the team.
Oh noooooooo.....
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:29 pm to EarlyCuyler3
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Actually having a military was something the Patriots were against.
They were?
U.S. Army - Founded: 14 June 1775
U.S. Navy - Founded: 13 October 1775
U.S. Marine Corps - Founded: 10 November 1775
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:31 pm to bad93ex
Yeah, they were.
So, pretty much exactly what we have now and have had since WWII.
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In June of 1787, James Madison addressed the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the dangers of a permanent army. “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty,” he argued. “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.” That Madison, one of the most vocal proponents of a strong centralized government—an author of the Federalist papers and the architect of the Constitution—could evince such strongly negative feelings against a standing army highlights the substantial differences in thinking about national security in America between the 18th century and the 21st.
So, pretty much exactly what we have now and have had since WWII.
This post was edited on 9/15/20 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 9/15/20 at 2:33 pm to bad93ex
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I would think military service and honoring veterans would be apolitical but here we are
I think the underlying idea (respect for one's country and those who serve it) are apolitical - or should be - at least based on how we define "political" in the modern era.
Now, the motivations for those theatrics, the timing, etc. are certainly political, regardless of how you want to define it.
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