Professional Sports Salaries & COVID19 (Page 3): i quit watchin'when they started knealin' i'm done with pro sports.......

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i quit watchin'when they started knealin' i'm done with pro sports.......

skylinefirepest Loc: Southern Pines, N.C.

True. And when they refuse to stand ( supposedly showing their support for blm or whatever ) then I refuse to watch and therefor contribute to their exorbitant salaries. It's not a matter of their "rights" because many, many, men and women have died or suffered to pay for those "rights"...but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. They are sports figures and very few of them have contributed anything to the country that pays them their millions...we use the word hero very loosely nowadays and they are not heroes...the real heroes are out in squad cars and ambulances and fire trucks protecting the public and in the cemeteries and memorial parks around the world.

Ollieboy

sgt hop wrote:

i quit watchin'when they started knealin' i'm done with pro sports.......

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10MPlayer Loc: California

It's not so much sports but entertainment. For some reason entertainers have always been paid huge sums of money. I have always supposed that's because the talent it takes to be entertaining to millions of people is in rare supply. If anyone could do it then the pay would be much lower. Whether it's right or not, I can't say. If watching sports gives people a break from their stressed out lives and a few minutes of joy, then who can say it's bad thing. There is so much pain and fear and stress in the world, even during the good times when there's no war or plague, a brief respite from it all is more than welcome.

As far as the kneeling and showing deference to the BLM marxists, they lost me a long time ago. The organizers of BLM admit they are trained in Marxist theory. That's enough for me. I'm out. There are other ways to entertain oneself.

10MPlayer Loc: California

tshift wrote:

I LOVE THAT!! I whole heartedly agree. DEFUND PRO SPORTS INSTEAD OF THE POLICE!! Thanks for those words of wisdom.

Tom

I can get onboard with that. Did you know that the NFL is technically considered a non-profit corporation under tax law? Now that is ridiculous. Hollywood enjoys certain tax breaks too. Not sure why but it sure makes no sense when they rake in so much dough.

Dannj

srron wrote:

I only watch my grandchildren sports,my granddaughters hockey skills help her to get into university (Yale) and then she was drafted in the first round to the NWHL where the pay is very low despite the fact that womens hockey is very good to watch. She will only be paid about 5,000. In her first year.Not all athletes make the large size dollars no matter what their skill level is.

I suspect that the salaries would be higher if the league had a TV contract.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

skylinefirepest wrote:

True. And when they refuse to stand ( supposedly... (show quote)

YES!

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

I agree with all the UHHers who say that the professional sports world consists of over-paid cry-babies. On occasion I like to watch big events on TV like the Superbowl (especially the commercials), the Stanley Cup, the Premier League championship, and the college final four. Other than that I can do without. I've never been to AT&T Stadium for a Cowboys game. (Did you know that for a college game at AT&T Stadium, Jerry Jones charges admission for the students in the marching bands which performs at halftime....pure greed!) The price of admission and a day at the stadium with the family can easily run over $200, with the cost of tickets, parking, food, beverage, etc. It's what made Jerry Jones rich. Take for example the exorbitant price of concession food....

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

sgt hop wrote:

i quit watchin'when they started knealin' i'm done with pro sports.......

If you never started watching, the TV executives would notice after a while - but they ‘capture’ so many eyeballs at so relatively low cost this way.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

dick ranez wrote:

The salaries are "justified" for celebri... (show quote)

Whoa! You do have a valid point as they are politicizing their personal views on PUBLIC television, and what they do on TV directly reflects on their organizations. If the organizations do not suspend them, then they are confirming that they are in agreement with the players' actions.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

2Dragons wrote:

Whoa! You do have a valid point as they are politicizing their personal views on PUBLIC television, and what they do on TV directly reflects on their organizations. If the organizations do not suspend them, then they are confirming that they are in agreement with the players' actions.

The broadcasters will reflect your views. You are the one being “entertained”. If you - and people like you - do not watch, they will not pay to broadcast them.

Vigneron

bobbyjohn wrote:

In this era of Covid19, we see on TV that virtuall... (show quote)

I like the fact that there is little to no college football this year. Maybe my Saturday TV viewing will get more diversity now. Can't stand the fact that that is all there used to be on Saturdays. Universities have TV sports to rake in money from TV coverage so they can vastly over pay their Athletic Directors and University heads. Very few of the athletes go on to the pro ranks so they get their bodies wrecked just so the wealthy can get even wealthier.

srg

jerryc41 wrote:

Definitely. Although, without the hot dog profit,... (show quote)

Yup. I think watching the grass grow is about as exciting as baseball. I do enjoy many other sports on TV. Basketball, football, beach volleyball (ladies of course). But if people buy these autographs and put millions into play, it just makes me question collective sanity.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

srg wrote:

Yup. I think watching the grass grow is about as exciting as baseball. I do enjoy many other sports on TV. Basketball, football, beach volleyball (ladies of course). But if people buy these autographs and put millions into play, it just makes me question collective sanity.

I'm with you. I have a sister who has been a baseball nut since the 1940s and could never understand why I couldn't stand watching baseball until I explained to her that to me baseball was watching guys spitting and scratching their nether-parts, in between beer commercials. If I'm going to watch a sport it has to move fast like hockey or basketball. Obviously, I'm a person that gets bored easily.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

srg wrote:

Yup. I think watching the grass grow is about as exciting as baseball. I do enjoy many other sports on TV. Basketball, football, beach volleyball (ladies of course). But if people buy these autographs and put millions into play, it just makes me question collective sanity.

I played baseball as a kid, so it is/was accessible to me. Since athletes started using weight rooms, the male athletes have ‘outgrown’ the physical limitations in sports such as basketball, so I am not nearly so interested in them. Come to think of it, I watch very little athletics of any sort these days.