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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 12, 2020 12:31:06 GMT -8
Well, it looks like the NBA closed out its season with Game 6, of the playoffs, registering a 66% drop in viewership. While the NBA takes time off to rest in its coffin, hopefully, someone will put a stake through its heart.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 12, 2020 14:11:55 GMT -8
Down 70%, Mr. Flu. These are significant numbers. They are starting to approach my Wish List. Still, I’ll take the 70.  Wonderful. Marvelous. One commenter made me smile: |
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Post by artraveler on Oct 13, 2020 8:45:09 GMT -8
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Post by timothylane on Oct 13, 2020 9:00:17 GMT -8
In 2004, Kentucky passed a referendum against homosexual marriage. The Curious Journal coverage of the voting that year including Jefferson County precinct results for the referendum as well as a few major races. There were a number of precincts voting heavily against homosexual marriage but voting overwhelmingly for demagogue candidates. It's a reasonable presumption that these precincts were urban black precincts. I've heard of similar numbers in the exit polls for the California referendum on the subject.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 13, 2020 10:13:38 GMT -8
The writer noted something that I saw decades ago. I would run into people who couldn't understand how fabulously wealthy people like the Kennedy's could be leftists. I pointed out that, in my opinion, wealthy Democratic Bolshevik politicians like the Kennedys had a philosophy of, "We have our wealth, keep everyone else down through socialism."
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 13, 2020 11:15:08 GMT -8
Let's hope that black people vote their interests, not their grievances or prejudices.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 21, 2020 20:11:10 GMT -8
The good news just keeps rolling in. World Series Game 1 Viewership Down 25%A day or two ago, I also read that NFL numbers have started back down. After the comments from Joe Buck and Troy Aikman they will, no doubt, continue their downward spiral. While, I am convinced that the Wokeness of modern sports has hurt their viewing numbers, I am beginning to think that the KFF panic has effected sports in an unexpected way. Many thought that after months of no sports on TV, fans would flock back to watch the games once the leagues started up again. This has not turned out to be the case.
Why is this so? Perhaps, during the months of no sports broadcasts, all those sports fans figured out that they didn't much miss the nonsense that is modern American sports. We can only hope this is true and that, between the phony idiots of the Lebron type, and the realization that there are better things to do with one's life than sit and watch a bunch of men playing boys' games, American sports will shrink back to a size which is commensurate with their actual importance. |
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Post by timothylane on Oct 21, 2020 20:41:30 GMT -8
Yes, I heard about the Buck-Aickman embarrassment -- mocking American patriotism as a concept. They showed their true colors, and no doubt will lose a great deal of popularity as a result. This will also affect other sportscasters, because people will wonder if they're any different.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 22, 2020 7:17:01 GMT -8
My older brother asked me the other day if I was watching the world series (no longer deserving of being capitalized). I honestly (as opposed to dishonestly) did not know it was going on. And I have zero desire to watch it. Admittedly, I’m an atypical case. Some friends the other day, on the way back from a small hike, invited me to go have pizza with them. I told them that, although I didn’t want to be a party pooper, I’m not sitting down and wearing a mask. So we got take-out and took it back to my place. It was fine with them. This is not me virtue-signaling. I’m just telling you my experience. This is me telling you how weird I am. Those who are stridently opposed to this medical police state will still commonly, from time to time, don the mask. I just won’t go there. That preamble is all a way to say that I find it difficult these days to put myself into the heads of others. I’m sure you are right, Mr. Flu, that many people just don’t miss the nonsense. Although I would say a good 70% do not believe their lives are in danger, they go along to get along. But as for sitting down and being entertained, I’ve got to believe many are carving out a safe zone from this nonsense. That’s one of the finest lines I’ve read in a while. It could have been written by Mark Twain. It is readily apparent that professional sports leagues have grown too big for their britches. Many have long exhorted the virtues of AA or AAA baseball if you need your baseball fix. Let’s hope we detoxify ourselves and go cold turkey from the topmost professional leagues. A high school football game can be just as entertaining and a far better overall experience. Go out and support the local boys and not pay for parking. The professional leagues, like so much else in America, have simply become indecent. I hadn’t heart about the Aikman/Buck comments. Sniveling little weasels. Troy who? |
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Post by artraveler on Oct 22, 2020 8:20:19 GMT -8
And I have zero desire to watch it. To a lesser degree the same thing is happening in college sports. The University oof Arkansas football team over the last 5 years has fallen on hard time. So, no one expected that this year with yet another head coach would be different. The recent victory over Old Miss brings the record to 2/2 with one of those loses being a tragic bad call. It could be 3/1. Razorback stadium here in Fayetteville hold about 80,000. The maximum allowed by the plague police is 16,000 and watching on TV I don't believe there were that many in attendance. The rot has moved into all sports. The program has taken a hit that has to run into millions and even a better team is not going to bring those funds back. There will be no direct state support, by law the program must be self-supporting. The rest of sports has taken a similar hit. Even programs like Alabama is taken a hit. Television money is down and will continue too go down. Sports in general will not be the entertainment medium it has been for years. We may be long gone before people return as long as the political commentary and PC action continue. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 22, 2020 21:21:56 GMT -8
The NFL could use a Kenesaw Mountain Landis to detox the league. Whether fixing games for money or ruining them for politics, if I were an NFL owner, I'd be looking to make Donald Trump commissioner of the league after he retires from office.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 5, 2020 11:09:45 GMT -8
Further good news. The collapse of those corrupting the culture, such as ESPN, is important to the survival and renewal of America. ESPN layoffs |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 5, 2020 14:30:10 GMT -8
Is there like a fund I can donate to? Maybe to the company that manufacture’s the pink slips. I just want to do my part.
Hahaha. What a lie. The layoffs are due to the pandemic. This weaponized flu season has produced a specifically captive audience for sports TV. That excuse won’t cut it.
Unless you are deluded and Progressive, which I know is redundant.
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Post by timothylane on Nov 5, 2020 14:34:25 GMT -8
We now see that ESPN and most of the people it covers are leftists, if only for convenience, so admitting the reality that their leftism is bringing them down is emotionally unacceptable.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 5, 2020 19:05:29 GMT -8
Really, it’s not my job to be petty and vindictive, but….
Neener Neener Neeneer. My experience with “Progressives” is that they are all emotionally fragile.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 11, 2020 13:48:48 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Nov 11, 2020 14:39:33 GMT -8
They will continue to blame the fans for disloyalty and never for a moment admit that the owners, coaches, and players are at fault. In a year or two when the bankruptcies start, salaries cut and ratings are are on par with soccer they will stop the crap, while never admitting error return to a measure of sanity, and wonder why fans don't flock into the stadiums and watch on TV.
What we knew as the NFL is dead-RIP-If it survives it will never be the same. I look for college football to follow suit but the end results will be less dramatic.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 11, 2020 21:26:12 GMT -8
The link is to an article and video by Jason Whitlock over at Outkick.com. If you have the time, watch the video. It is the most brutally clear explanation to blacks of how they are being played by white liberals, that I have ever seen. It is devastating. This guy pulls no punches and it can only be hoped that many people, black, white and other colors, watch this.
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Post by timothylane on Nov 11, 2020 21:41:31 GMT -8
Whitlock, as I recall, was the author of a book on that very subject a few years ago, which I put onto my list of books to check out. Unfortunately, that list is larger than what I can afford or have room for. He shows up a lot on Fox News.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 11, 2020 22:44:07 GMT -8
I just saw Frank Gaffney on Steve Bannon's "War Room Pandemic" pod cast claim that the votes made on the Dominion voting machine are tabulated in Barcelona, Spain. George Soros is connected to the company in some manner.
If this is true, it is insane.
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