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re: Is college football more important than politics to you?
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:33 pm to TigerStripes30
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:33 pm to TigerStripes30
quote:I'd LOVE to be able to put politics aside for a day and watch some college football.
does it matter... i can put politics aside for a day or maybe even a few hours to watch LSU play...
Someone call me when they decide to put politics aside for a day.
People act like conservatives haven't, FOR DECADES, watched sports, movies, concerts, listened to music and watched TV shows FILLED with people who we knew weren't conservative. Hell, in my cases, outspokenly not conservative.
That is NOT what's happening now. And, anyone pretending to not realize this isn't capable of being honest about the situation.
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Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:37 pm to Craig86
Not at all. So far I still like to watch it, but that could change if this WOKE mentality keeps up.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:44 pm to Craig86
if your answer is yes then you better re-assess because politics is on track to do away with "amateur" sports forever.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:50 pm to DaleGribble
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Other than the national anthem and flyovers, let's hear some examples.
That's not enough?Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:52 pm to Big Scrub TX
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That's not enough?
Not even close. They even play the anthem at little league games and other countries do the same. I guess saying the pledge in school is political too.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:56 pm to RogerTheShrubber
As a Texas fan, I get to just combine them and go cry in the fetal position in the shower with all my clothes on.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:57 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Here's some highly local examples:
1956 LSU/Wisconsin game canceled over racial politics
That was as a result of Joe Dorsey - a black boxer - KOing white dudes. The Louisiana legislature passed a law - in 1956 - banning sporting contests between whites and blacks, which ended up affecting the Wisconsin game.
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If you can't admit that segregation - perhaps THE pressing political issue of its day - didn't play a huge role in sports for decades, then I don't know what to tell you. The white dude establishment was so committed to this political stance in sports that EVEN FOR frickING BASKETBALL, it took LSU until the early 1970s to allow a black player on its roster.
1956 LSU/Wisconsin game canceled over racial politics
That was as a result of Joe Dorsey - a black boxer - KOing white dudes. The Louisiana legislature passed a law - in 1956 - banning sporting contests between whites and blacks, which ended up affecting the Wisconsin game.
LINK
If you can't admit that segregation - perhaps THE pressing political issue of its day - didn't play a huge role in sports for decades, then I don't know what to tell you. The white dude establishment was so committed to this political stance in sports that EVEN FOR frickING BASKETBALL, it took LSU until the early 1970s to allow a black player on its roster.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:00 pm to DaleGribble
quote:Right. Politics.
Not even close. They even play the anthem at little league games and other countries do the same.
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I guess saying the pledge in school is political too.
what a crazy thoughtPosted on 8/30/21 at 2:01 pm to Blue_Rocky
quote:See my post above about the 1950s and 1960s in sports. Your memory of past events is facile.
I'd LOVE to be able to put politics aside for a day and watch some college football.
Someone call me when they decide to put politics aside for a day.
People act like conservatives haven't, FOR DECADES, watched sports, movies, concerts, listened to music and watched TV shows FILLED with people who we knew weren't conservative. Hell, in my cases, outspokenly not conservative.
That is NOT what's happening now. And, anyone pretending to not realize this isn't capable of being honest about the situation.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:02 pm to Big Scrub TX
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it took LSU until the early 1970s to allow a black player on its roster.
Its been 50 years, Forrest. Time to get into the present.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:03 pm to Big Scrub TX
Another example would be the Olympics - obviously, always inherently shot through with politics - and the 1980 and 1984 games.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:04 pm to DaleGribble
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That's not enough?
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Not even close.
Yep, the pledge or anthem are NOT political. The left has tried to make them so, but its basic citizenship.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:04 pm to Craig86
Those pampered scholarship foosball players can kiss my white arse. I'm not watching. The national news broadcasters can kiss my arse too.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:05 pm to Big Scrub TX
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See my post above about the 1950s and 1960s in sports. Your memory of past events is facile.
What does that have to do with what woke retards are doing now?
Are you a George Floyd fan?
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:06 pm to Big Scrub TX
I see segregation as a social issue, more so than political.
MLB was desegregated two decades before segregation was the hot topic of the 60s. Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and several others were making bank in their sports long before the 60s. Jesse Owens in the Olympics, etc, etc.
If someone looks at it in the context of the times, there was nothing political about sports until very, very recently.
MLB was desegregated two decades before segregation was the hot topic of the 60s. Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and several others were making bank in their sports long before the 60s. Jesse Owens in the Olympics, etc, etc.
If someone looks at it in the context of the times, there was nothing political about sports until very, very recently.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:06 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Interesting deflection. I gave specific examples of how, historically, sports have been run through with politics and your response is...ad hominem and acting like I didn't answer questions.
Its been 50 years, Forrest. Time to get into the present.
Are you honestly arguing that sports stopped being political once segregation ended? Hell, the Missouri/Kansas rivalry is still a de facto embodiment of Civil War era grievances. On and on and on.
To be clear, I'm not defending any current woke bullshite in sports. I'm merely pointing out some level of politics has always been a feature of sports.
Another example: Ali vs Frazier. That was played out rather explicitly as a battle between anti-Vietnam counterculture and establishment types.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Forcing young children to pledge allegiance to a flag is not political? Weird.
but its basic citizenship.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:08 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Interesting deflection.
It wasn't. You just are incapable of understanding it.
Your racial world view is anti scientific
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:08 pm to 93and99
quote:I made the claim that politics has always been a part of sports. This board acts as if politics in sports just happened. It didn't.
What does that have to do with what woke retards are doing now?
quote:He's a detestable piece of shite.
Are you a George Floyd fan?
You seem to be missing the very obvious point.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:09 pm to Craig86
I quit watching sports, period, because they injected politics into it.
Sports used to be unifying. Something we could all like together regardless of our other opinions. Now, sports are naught more than another reverberation chamber for communist talking points and propaganda.
I hate politics because modern politics lacks common sense. And now I hate sports because politics ruined it.
Thank GOD for fishing and hunting.
Sports used to be unifying. Something we could all like together regardless of our other opinions. Now, sports are naught more than another reverberation chamber for communist talking points and propaganda.
I hate politics because modern politics lacks common sense. And now I hate sports because politics ruined it.
Thank GOD for fishing and hunting.
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