No. of Recommendations: 9
Notice how no libs have celebrated anything with respect to the Olympics?
Perhaps you have been swept up in your own fantasy.
Just because we don’t cheer when Kash puts on a jersey and guzzles beer with the US hockey team…..
And just because we don’t laugh with Donald at the AI video of him skating on the ice, body checking members of the Canadian hockey team…. Doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy aspects of the Olympics.
Speaking only for myself- so much of sports, both on the professional and collegiate level, has been drowned by money and grift. Online gambling… scandal…. Obscene amounts of money. Pete Rose would be a choir boy in this environment….
So the bloom is off the rose for me, and has been for a few decades.
The last football game I watched was a high school game. And the last “baseball” game was the minor league Toledo Mud Hens. And truth be told- I enjoy women’s softball more than baseball these days.
It’s getting harder and harder to find sporting events that still exhibit and evoke the joy of fair competition.
More and more, it’s performative chest beating, gambling spreads, ball spiking and performance enhancing drugs.
Even the Olympics is not immune.
Just give me the true amateurs, before the scouts and advertisers get ahold of them.
They’re a lot more fun to watch.
They play, because they love the game.
