Discussion for article #227655
Maybe American Football is on the way to fading out and international rules Rugby/Soccer is coming in. Perhaps there are far fewer abusers and racists in the Rugby/Soccer player crowd than there are per capita in the too highly-paid American and National Football leagues, both of them. American Football, after all, is a rather violent and unsportsmanlike sport which causes tens of thousands of head and other injuries a year for the players. More like a form of modern gladiatorial battles in the 21st century.
Just want to remind fans: Soccer is played well in many nations with teams with a diverse mix of ethnicities on each team, and skin color never plays a role, skill on the field does.
Fire! The owner and management team for the Atlanta Hawks. If that don’t work boycott the racism starts at the top and rolls down hill.
Only if it’s League rugby rules. Union-rules rugby is boorring.
I saw the comments, and it seemed to me that Levinson was speaking rather honestly about why the white people in Atlanta were not coming to Hawks games. I thought he taking on American racial attitudes, particularly in the South, without euphemism or equivocation which of course is a no-no in the media. Then I read this by Kareem Jabbar:
which expressed my thoughts with far more eloquence than I could manage. This whole controversy is nonsense, in my view.
The reason why more folks don’t attend Hawks games is because the Hawks suck on a yearly basis. You can’t charge premium prices for a sub par team.