Was reading Erik Carlson's article "You Are a Horrible Person" (https://badlands.substack.com/p/you-are-a-horrible-person?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) regarding what happened to Damar Hamlin. Carlson proposes tongue-in-cheek that if a routine tackle can cause a young, healthy player to go into cardiac arrest, then football and all other contact sports should cease to exist. As I read that, it occurred to me how vital it is for the globalists to end all sportsball for good.
Sports used to be one of the things that united people from different backgrounds. The only people who hated sports were leftists, because of all that "toxic masculinity." So, like all of our other institutions, the left began infiltrating the sports world, systematically destroying it by leaving their woke imprint. First it was stirring up controversy over gay athletes. Then it was the push to put women's sports on equal footing with men's sports (yes, I'm a woman, and I absolutely consider men's sports a vastly superior product). But now, thanks to Covid, the globalists have accelerated the destruction of sportsball:
- Sports were shut down during the pandemic.
- When they were reopened, people couldn't attend games.
- When people were allowed to attend, they had to wear masks and socially distance.
- When the clot shot became available, both athletes and patrons were told to get it or else they would not be allowed to participate.
- Those who did get the shot are now "dying suddenly."
We have certainly seen over the last two years how easily swayed the sheep are. I can totally see those in control drawing a straight line from Hamlin's situation to "OMG Sportsball isn’t safe! We must end it!" And it doesn't end with the pro teams. College, high school, Pop Warner, it all goes away. One more thing to take away from our kids to make them fat, lazy, and compliant.
In brief, sportsball allowed these leftist in, and because they did, the sportsball empire will all be destroyed. When they say "everything woke turns to shit," sometimes that is intentional. It certainly looks like it in this case.
I live near Bloodymore, and the two downtown stadiums are probably the only things keeping the whole city from having a large brick wall built around it. We have stupid fans (especially Ravens fans), but most fans are good-natured, and I have been at games in the past where you could feel a comraderie just by being there and rooting for the home team. I haven't been in years and maybe it's different now, but I don't think the Philly experience is universal.
That said, your points are valid. I am curious to see how it all plays out.
Your points are valid too. And I do appreciate your opinion. I just personally don't like sports. For some reason everything about them leaves a sour taste in my mouth. & I think it's crazy that people will teach their toddlers how to spell e a g l e s to sing the song but not how to spell their name before preschool.
My husband and I had different experiences growing up with sports. My dad loved baseball, and when I started to show an interest he was both eager to teach me about and patient when explaining it. It was a very organic experience, and some of my favorite memories of my dad were the times we watched baseball. My husband did not have a natural interest, and his indifference became resentment because his dad was consumed with watching it. He is part of the reason my interest started to wane in the last decade or so. He actually thinks it's funny how I rail against so much of it now.
Yeah, some people are absolutely stupid about it. They will be hit hardest when it comes crashing down, but this is the very reason why no one should become overly invested in anything except God and family.