A Lame Thing I'm Noticing About Guys These Days...

[Truth200]

so you think the owners of these franchises deserve to make more than the players?
why aren't there many black owners throughout professional sports, yet they make up a good portion of the players?
would you say that black ownership/ management is disproportionate?

 

[Kid McNamara]

I coached High School basketball for 5 years and that's what made me quit watching sports also.

No doubt. Don't know what it was, but reaching a kid and seeing him make positive changes meant much more than "the game."

 

[Truth200]

No doubt. Don't know what it was, but reaching a kid and seeing him make positive changes meant much more than "the game."

I agree 100%

 

[The_Truth]

I'll play a sport myself, but I have no interest in watching other people play. It's one of those things that I have to be doing myself in order to care about it.

 

[sportscribe]

Who brings the real value to the organization? and where did they get that wealth in the first place? wouldn't happen to be from hundreds of years of slavery/ free labor would it?

No, blacks are deliberately being denied access to capital and ownership which is common in every industry in this country. I hear nothing but excuses and deflection from the real issue which is systematic racism. I guess you think that pro-sports is somehow the only space where blacks are being treated fairly. please stop being delusional

edit i just realized your name is sport scribe. r u black? do you get paid from sports?

Read @jwinfield's post.

In which industry are the employees earning more than the owners (aside from owners who deliberately take on small salaries for liquidity reasons while they have billions in stock options)? Answer that and then you'll see if your question makes sense.

Didn't Bob Johnson own the Bobcats? The common thread between these owners is that they have a lot of funds backing them, and they are more often than not entrepreneurs. They started their own companies and take on risk. Again, nothing is stopping a consortium of wealthy blacks from putting in a bid to take over ownership of a team. Institutional racism cannot put a stop to that.

 

[151_Pr00f]

People do what makes them happy. If not having an interests in sports makes them happy or vice versa then live and let live.

 

[Higher Tech]

The older I get, the less I care about sports. My interests have changed. I think about the countless hours I spent watching sports that I could have used to hone other skills. I'm twice as interested in market reports than I am in football. I still love basketball. But money and things involving money are a much more intriguing sport to me. I like reading about pc and camera stuff more than sports most of the time.

That being said, I don't feel any kind of way about people that love sports. They are exciting.

 

[Higher Tech]

When adults are having serious discussions they usually tell the kids to go play, to keep them distracted. I look at pro sports as an extension of that. Let these blacks run up and down the field generating billions, while the franchises, stadiums, and media platforms are all owned by whites...

If you are an adult and sports distract you from the real world and real things in the world, the problem is with the person. Not the sport.

 

[feelosofer]

Cooking and cleaning are life skills. Sports are just a form of entertainment in the grand scheme of things. An opiate of the masses if you will. It's not that important. If people knew 9th grade civics as well as they knew sports our people would be in a far better state.

 

[Clayton Endicott]

I pay people for that

Ain't nothing wrong with that. There's just some shyt you gotta call a professional for. But if you can't do some simple shyt that only cost you twenty bones at Home Depot, and maybe an hour's worth of your time,

 

[joeychizzle]

Combat sports for me only.
Boxing, kickboxing, MMA.. shyt I'll even watch judo, wrestling, bjj, karate and TKD matches.

I'll watch other sports if they come on and I'm with a group that's into it, but I won't actively search it out.
I don't shyt on other sports though

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

That athlete money the NOI used to get done dried up, so now he calling them out right before the 2nd million man march

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

No doubt. Don't know what it was, but reaching a kid and seeing him make positive changes meant much more than "the game."

The irony in this post is that sports is a great vehicle to make a difference in a kids life..... If you ever coached or was involved in lil league sports this would be obvious to yall.......

 

[ridedolo]

That athlete money the NOI used to get done dried up, so now he calling them out right before the 2nd million man march

you clearly know nothing about what you just typed

 

[Brofato]

That reminds me of that vid of that fakkit cac in Boston who straight punched a guy simply cuz he was wearing a rival teams jersey. Is it really that fukking serious? People who take sports that fukking seriously are pathetic and should kill themselves. Sports tribalism gets way outta hand.

I've never understood shyt like this. There's only few things I care that strongly about and it sure as hell ain't sports.