I had really stepped away years ago, during the Michael Vick dogfighting case. My "transition" solution was to only watch college football...and that worked until it didn't. By 2017, the hypocrisy, the double-standards, and the willing disconnect between the amount of money the league generates and for who, and to cover up what, and to look the other way about things, really soured me to the point that I washed my hands of all of it.
I still like football. I just can't watch it without seething, so it's better that I don't. This is socially awkward for me, living in Texas, but I'd rather deal with that than feel like I'm enabling all of that graft and corruption.
I live out here on the Left Coast and my go-to college conference, the Pac-12, imploded last year in a nasty stew of greed, arrogance and stupidity. That along with NIL and the transfer portal have just about finished the college game off for me.
You mean you missed America's Glorious Game between the White Racist Cultural Appropriators and the White Racist Land Thieves?
I, for one, got a wee bit misty-eyed over the RFK Jr. ad. Now that was when television was great.
I had really stepped away years ago, during the Michael Vick dogfighting case. My "transition" solution was to only watch college football...and that worked until it didn't. By 2017, the hypocrisy, the double-standards, and the willing disconnect between the amount of money the league generates and for who, and to cover up what, and to look the other way about things, really soured me to the point that I washed my hands of all of it.
I still like football. I just can't watch it without seething, so it's better that I don't. This is socially awkward for me, living in Texas, but I'd rather deal with that than feel like I'm enabling all of that graft and corruption.
I live out here on the Left Coast and my go-to college conference, the Pac-12, imploded last year in a nasty stew of greed, arrogance and stupidity. That along with NIL and the transfer portal have just about finished the college game off for me.
So, I hear you.