Sports overhaul

I fall into this category for all sports sans College Football.

quote:

---

Is this just just an "outlier"...or are we in the first stages of a bubble burst?

---

I hope the bubble bursts.

quote:

---

No I don't think it's an outlier, all the off the field stuff has genuinely cooled my commitment to sports in general

---

Why?

Tebow kneeled and interjected his Religion into college sports, AND YOU DIDN'T SAY A DAMNED THING

Here's my challenge to you, if you were silent and enjoyed Tebow between the lines, then treat these CFB Players in 2020 the same way YOU treated Tebow

Hypocrite much?

Im not sure if its because I've gotten older and other things have just become more important, my teams havent been all that great, the political stuff the sports networks shove down everyones throats or maybe a mixture of all of the above, but ive slipped farther and farther away from being the sports fan i was from when i was a kid up until i was in my late 20's. I will still watch college football if its on but i dont make plans for it like i did. I only keep up with the NFL for my fantasy teams purposes and i cant remember the last time i watched an NBA game. I do still like going to Baseball games but i hardly watch them on tv anymore either. This website is the most sports dedicated thing i participate in.

quote:

---

Tebow wasn't trying to draw attention to himself, and he wasn't grabbing every microphone he could get his hands on telling the world how awful people were who didn't follow his religious beliefs. Tebow was 100% genuine. None of the current race baiters can say that.

---

How is asking that a Statue or Memorial be taken down rise to the level of race baiting, when the person depicted in the Statue was a treasonous traitorous cowardly loser racist arse dead confederate?

Asking that a professional police officer bring an unarmed person in alive to get their due process is NOT race baiting

It seems to me that any minority that has an opinion that you don't like gets accused of race baiting

I really just thought Tebow was being himself and he really wasn't too preachy in press conferences. But, if he is allowed to do that on the field, pray on the sidelines during the game and put bible verses on his eyeblack then other players should be able to have the same freedoms for their causes as well.

quote:

---

Asking that a professional police officer bring an unarmed person in alive to get their due process is NOT race baiting

---

George Floyd was killed by a police officer with a personal vendetta dating back to the days when they worked together. He was not killed because he was black.

As for the Wendy's guy in Atlanta, he grabbed the officer's taser. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

We will never be able to know this, but I would ban bet you that Chuba Hubbard had no idea what was on Mike Gundy's shirt until someone told him he should be offended by it.

The Texas WR who said he would quit until "changes" were made is laughable.

If Tom Herman, Dabo Swinney, and Kirk Ferentz were actually saying all of these offensive things, we would have heard about it long before now. The Iowa RB who whined about Ferentz only did so because his NFL career never got off the ground and now he's hoping to be part of some kind of money grab.

A lot of these guys are getting the opportunity for a free education that they otherwise would never have access to in a lot of cases, and they're showing themselves to be ungrateful little shuts.

So yeah, they're race baiting and I would like to see a total overhaul of college sports.

As for Tebow, plenty of religious players, both white and black, kneel in the end zone after a touchdown. They don't get all preachy about it and tell you how much of a piece of shite you are if you don't agree with them in lockstep.

quote:

---

How is asking that a Statue or Memorial be taken down rise to the level of race baiting, when the person depicted in the Statue was a treasonous traitorous cowardly loser racist arse dead confederate?

---

This is an absurd take that relies on a complete ignorance of American history. Prior to the Civil War, the individual states had far more power and autonomy than did the federal government. Citizen’s Identity was more to their state than their country, much like how most Europeans see themselves first as citizens of England, France, or Germany and citizens of the EU seperate.

When states seceded, citizens were called to defend their state against the federal government. It was loyalty to state over federal. To go the other way meant fighting your own family, neighbors, and home towns.

In addition, most confederate soldiers were drafted, and monuments were built to commemorate the 400k who died at the hands of the Union invasion. In addition, many of these confederates are honored as much for their contributions outside of the war. General Beauregard helped build New Orleans City Park and founded schools to educate freed slaves. Robert E. Lee became an advocate for peace to prevent the nation from descending into geurilla warfare. Many others founded universities, theaters, museums, and all sorts of historical and cultural institutions which survive to this day. Cancel Culture believes any impurity warrants destruction, however.

These monuments are being demanded torn down not to unify but to divide. The idea is to make acceptable the removal of anything built by anyone associated with slavery. It won’t stop with “racist traitorous confederates”.

The Declaration of Independence was penned by slaveholder Thomas Jefferson. The Constitution by slaveowner James Madison. The Revolutionary War was won by slaveowner George Washington. Once the confederate monuments are taken down, the founding fathers and the Constitution itself will be the next target. Don’t act like it’s not happening already. Statues of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and countless abolitionist leaders have been defaced or taken down by mobs over the past month. The mob is trying to destroy American history so they can rewrite it where they get to decide who has rights and what rights they have, and where the mob is and always was right.

quote:

---

Asking that a professional police officer bring an unarmed person in alive to get their due process is NOT race baiting

---

The fact is that the police do this the overwhelming majority of the time and to claim systemic racism when unarmed white people are more statistically likely to be shot in police encounters absolutely is race baiting.