VERY good, Castor_troy. I needed a good laugh at the end of an other wise shitty day.
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I agree about the planes and flag patches and natl anthem etc. But are those Pitaro’s fault? Is he not allowed to try to create a politics free sports outlet because of the NFLs jingoism?
Not to mention, I doubt sport commentators lean liberal.
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This is my take as well. Tom Brady’s locker with a MAGA was sports-related news. A drive time sports talk show dedicated to tearing Clinton apart and kissing Trump’s ass is not. It can be done.
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I call it working for someone besides yourself. Be it billing clerk, receptionist, soldier, cop, doctor or other profession you are still expected to respect the chain of command. I grant you that there are times when you have to evaluate if you still respect (and if not, quit or at least look for another job).
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Even if you are working for yourself, you may want to keep your politics quiet. There is a feed store near me that played Rush Limbaugh et al all day long that lost my business.
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Reminds me of the Labor Day parade officials during the Vietnam Era who claimed that anti war marchers would “politicize” the event in which the Marine Corps Band and other military recruitment teams were invited to participate.
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Private business is one thing, but publicly broadcasting, with its government licensing and leasing, is a bit different. Or should be.
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ESPN is a microcosm of what’s gone wrong in general. Everything in sight has a corporate logo on it. Hell gradeschool kickball games have company sponsors. Hours and hours and hours of idiots talking about a handful of doped-up, overpaid guys in 4 or 5 sports, attempting to manufacture a story where there is not and never will be one. They’ve driven off anyone who is interested in the specifics of athletic competition, and now they live in hourly fear of pissing off a key demographic—bigot orange cultists. Winning isn’t everything; money is.
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You can debate Colin Kaepernick’s merits as a quarterback, but his exclusion from being signed even by teams that were desperate for a starting quarterback was obvious collusion. The owners, like Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, Dan Snyder, and Woody Johnson (the latter is Trump’s ambassador to the Court of St. James, for Christ’s sake) are the worst sorts of reactionary scum, who certainly colluded on behalf of their buddy Trump against the interests of “their” players. And how is all that not inherently political?
OTOH, Tim Teebow was a sub-mediocre quarterback who was kept in the league past his sell-by date because he put Bible-thumpers’ lard asses in the seats. And HIS taking a knee was somehow unobjectionable. Again, not political how?
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i could not agree with you more and i find it somewhat odd, and incredibly myopic for anyone to fail to recognize the use of sports and the misappropriation of military imagery as the propaganda it is. its crowd think. but somehow–only the right wing is entitled to use such venues for political expression. the moment a left of center view creeps in via knee, rapinoe, and its hardly new–think: tommy smith/john carlos–all hell breaks loose. i suspect the dichotomy arises from one thing: the left is tolerant of multiple views and freedom of expression and ratings aren’t affected–whereas the right is not.
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Thanks! I’ll check it out.
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One of my favorite videos. I wish there were a couple more like this for Smith and for Skip Bayless.
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Jim Rome, if it is possible, is an even bigger asshole than Stephen A. And he totally deserved the punch in the face.
Remember those quaint times when Howard Cosell was the biggest asshole on Sports TV?
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Bring back those innocent times of Monday Night Football, as tens of thousands of fans in the stadium would chant: ‘Howard sucks! Howard sucks!’
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Yes yes yes. And the quaint times of Phil Rizzutto making cluelessly racist goombah comments about Latino and African American ballplayers.
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I can’t believe I’m defending him but Jim Rome is so much more interesting and capable than Stephen A.
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I do not doubt that. But he is more of an asshole. Well, maybe not. Stephen A is a pretty monumental asshole.