NBA postpones Wednesday’s playoff games as players protest shooting of Jacob Blake

W_and_C · 2020-08-26T21:59:39.329Z

TommyLucchese:

Here's to feeling good all the time. :

Didn’t the team or Patricia make a statement like “football is not important today” ?

To which , one must wonder - hasn’t football not been important in Detroit since around 1957 ?

Let’s not undersell the Barry Sanders era. I watched Lions games just to watch that dude run. No fullback. Unreal.

And he hated playing for that organization so much that he retired practically in his prime !

TommyLucchese · 2020-08-26T22:01:19.578Z

Here's to feeling good all the time. :

And he hated playing for that organization so much that he retired practically in his prime !

Untrue. It’s actually a funny story. Barry Sanders was apparently the shyest, most circumspect dude ever and there was a big but fake rumor going around they wanted him to retire, so he did to spare them the embarrassment and now that I think about I’ve just told an incompetent Lions organization story haven’t I.

W_and_C · 2020-08-26T22:04:16.681Z

TommyLucchese:

Here's to feeling good all the time. :

And he hated playing for that organization so much that he retired practically in his prime !

Untrue. It’s actually a funny story. Barry Sanders was apparently the shyest, most circumspect dude ever and there was a big but fake rumor going around they wanted him to retire, so he did to spare them the embarrassment and now that I think about I’ve just told an incompetent Lions organization story haven’t I.

What I’ve read more than once is that he was tired of the revolving coach/quarterback carousel and them making Charlie Batch the starter was the last straw.

TommyLucchese · 2020-08-26T22:05:05.989Z

Here's to feeling good all the time. :

What I’ve read more than once is that he was tired of the revolving coach/quarterback carousel and them making Charlie Batch the starter was the last straw.

I will tolerate no slander of Homestead Charlie. I’m a Steelers fan.

hwyflier · 2020-08-26T22:05:08.255Z

I watch a lot of UFC and a few of my favorite fighters are big Trump fans, plus Dana White spoke at the last RNC and will this one.

Seems like a weird thing to get too worked up over.

TommyLucchese · 2020-08-26T22:07:13.674Z

Y’know the reaction to this is just going to breed more of it. Even people who are apolitical pay ■■■■■■■ attention when athletes make a big deal about it.

W_and_C · 2020-08-26T22:08:02.393Z

TommyLucchese:

Here's to feeling good all the time. :

What I’ve read more than once is that he was tired of the revolving coach/quarterback carousel and them making Charlie Batch the starter was the last straw.

I will tolerate no slander of Homestead Charlie. I’m a Steelers fan.

I actually just checked on wiki and i missed something - in early 2000, about six months after he retired and involved in a dispute over the signing bonus, Barry and his agent offered to return the entire bonus to the Lions in exchange for a release or a trade so he could play for anyone else. Lions wouldn’t budge, so retired he stayed.

Hawk92 · 2020-08-26T22:09:01.944Z

There is a word get woke go broke and ratings had dropped 40% And now blue checkers are cheering this NBA boycott because of the shooting of Jacob Blake? haven’t they seen the news on him who he was?

Hawk92 · 2020-08-26T22:09:55.250Z

Because Dana White and UFC are doing it the right way.
You want to talk politics? do it outside of the sports.

thinkingman · 2020-08-26T22:10:13.242Z

Hawk92:

Its not a surprise why NBA ratings had being dropping, people who want to watch sports dont want politics in their sports.

Politics is ruining sports.
Players are demanding to protest and to stop the NBA games today because to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake who had a police warrant.

If the politics in NBA continue i dont see how their ratings will recover at all at this point.

Source

leftist politics is ruining everything in society

why should sports be any different

thinkingman · 2020-08-26T22:11:57.699Z

Hawk92:

Because Dana White and UFC are doing it the right way.
You want to talk politics? do it outside of the sports.

but no one will understand unless you kneel on the field/diamond/court (and soon a rink near you)

Hawk92 · 2020-08-26T22:13:17.017Z

On Twitter i am seeing this.

“No NBA Games Until you arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor,Elijah McClain and paralyzed Jacob Blake would be quite the statement.”

Its clear that some of those on twitter dont even watch nor haven’t watched any of these game. These blue checkers have being quit on the rioters and rioting that destroyed business.

Hawk92 · 2020-08-26T22:15:10.139Z

unless you kneel on the field/diamond/court (and soon a rink near you)

Or threaten you at restaurant for being white. Or ask you whatever or not your a Christian or catholic?

hwyflier · 2020-08-26T22:15:12.571Z

Hawk92:

Because Dana White and UFC are doing it the right way.
You want to talk politics? do it outside of the sports.

That’s funny that you tried to negate my point with your imagination.

However in reality these images taken at official events.

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Not to mention all the press conference clips I could dredge up.

So you’re completely wrong, and like I said, it seems weird to think that I have to agree with every athlete or celebrity’s politics.

Hawk92 · 2020-08-26T22:16:51.947Z

There is a difference between supporting a candidate and pushing canceling,boycotting if a UFC fighter supports Biden i am sure they would be wearing a Biden T shirt and no one would have a issue with. But this is about BLM we are talking about.

The same BLM rioters which had being rioting and looting and destroying small business. I have no issues if you want to be potical or support a candidate but what these NBA players are doing is to woke.

Its not a surprise why the ratings are dropping.

Hawk92 · 2020-08-26T22:19:47.168Z

hwyflier:

So you’re completely wrong, and like I said, it seems weird to think that I have to agree with every athlete or celebrity’s politics.

Yeah but protest and boycotting to show support for someone who had a warrant? noicte how the media and BLM were quiet when a black suspect killed a white boy? why?

BLM are also quiet when white people are killed by the police officers.

PurpnGold · 2020-08-26T22:29:13.941Z

Hawk92:

Its not a surprise why NBA ratings had being dropping, people who want to watch sports dont want politics in their sports.

Politics is ruining sports.
Players are demanding to protest and to stop the NBA games today because to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake who had a police warrant.

If the politics in NBA continue i dont see how their ratings will recover at all at this point.

I find it super weird that not wanting to be murdered by police, while unarmed, is so polarizing.

SottoVoce · 2020-08-26T23:05:59.928Z

PurpnGold:

Hawk92:

Its not a surprise why NBA ratings had being dropping, people who want to watch sports dont want politics in their sports.

Politics is ruining sports.
Players are demanding to protest and to stop the NBA games today because to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake who had a police warrant.

If the politics in NBA continue i dont see how their ratings will recover at all at this point.

I find it super weird that not wanting to be murdered by police, while unarmed, is so polarizing.

I’d also add that there are more important things in life than television ratings. I fully realize our President disagrees. The idea that television ratings should entice the players to continue despite the circumstances? Sad.

moonshine · 2020-08-26T23:56:22.213Z

Some baseball games have also been cancelled

AlexMcAlpine · 2020-08-27T02:16:28.263Z

moonshine:

Some baseball games have also been cancelled

Are overpaid athletes about to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?

They make too much money and multi-millionaire African American athletes whine that they’re treated like slaves and the NBA can’t have “owners” any more because that triggers them.

I’m ready to not watch another NBA, NFL or MLB game.