Like most things in the current age, professional sport has become a degenerate mockery of itself. The presentation is a high-tech vaudeville act that is now mostly advertisements and propaganda. The people in charge of the various sports are the worst this age can muster. The participants are vulgar carnies. Despite the best efforts of this age, however, sport continues to provide an insight into our times. It is a microcosm of the larger society in which it operates.
For example, football was always the second sport in America, up until the explosion of mass media in the 1980’s. In fact, football was probably behind sports like boxing and horse racing, not just baseball. The explosion of television rocketed football to the top of sport entertainment because it was a natural for the medium. It provides a stage that fits the screen, has breaks for ad space and is a weekly happening. The NFL quickly became a lightly scripted television sports drama.
The mass media culture made the NFL in particular, and football in general, the king of the sports entertainment industry. Like the culture as a whole, the apparent success of the league masks the problems. Ownership has given way to a class of mercurial operators with no loyalty to the local communities. Their greed has resulted in a steady decline in the product. While ratings have seen a boost so far this year, general interest has been in decline for the last decade.
A big reason for that is the product. Kids are not playing football at the youth level, like they used to, so the number of young males moving through the system is in decline, meaning that the quality of player has declined. You see that with the quarterback position, which is the most challenging. The sudden decline in the number of white kids playing youth ball means a decline in the positions requiring smarts. One result is the position has become more “athletic”.
Of course, modernity destroys social capital, and youth sports are the canary in the coal mine when it comes to social cohesion. When America was based on strong white communities, it had lots of white fathers volunteering to coach sports, run youth leagues and so on. As the white population declines, white volunteers decline. As society becomes more diverse, which brings deracination and alienation, the organic structures that make youth sports possible decline.
The men running the sport are not concerned about that as they are not the sort to invest in society. They just assume they can pack up their stuff and move onto the next society once all the life from this one has been drained. These are post-Americans who operate as pirates. Like the global economy that spawned them, they ride the waves of globalism. America is just the place where they can operate at the moment, a pirate’s cove that means nothing to them.
The NFL is also riddled with scandal. Its team in Washington is owned by a degenerate who is one scandal after another. To distract from the latest scandal, DEA agents raiding their facilities, the league instructed their media to focus on manufactured crises involving coaches. For a while, the media was obsessing over the coach of the Jacksonville franchise. They keep making up stories about him, relying on imaginary sources and manufactured internet chatter.
The coach of the league’s Las Vegas franchise was just forced to resign when it was learned he held normal opinions about gays and blacks. His e-mails magically appeared in the media just when the DEA came calling. It was an orchestrated hit, probably with the help of that team’s owner, in order to get out of paying the contract. It could also be part of the effort to distract from the looming narcotics scandal. The DEA does not raid famous people because of a paperwork discrepancy.
This stuff is a microcosm of the ruling class. They got these e-mails from a previous investigation of their Washington team. Then they used those e-mails from that prior scandal to distract attention from the current scandal. Those e-mails were handed to a reporter, who did not bother to mention the source of them. Once the coach addressed the issue another batch of e-mails was delivered to the New York Times. They did not mention their source either. Imagine that.
Like the political media, the sports media is owned by the system. They are the ministry of truth blasting out what the league tells them to say. If one of them gets froggy and does genuine reporting, he is dismissed from his post. YouTube and Twitter are full of people who would be happy to play the role of jock sniffer. Everyone in the ministry of truth knows this, so they play along. To borrow a phrase from Theodore Dalrymple, the media is a collection of emasculated liars.
Right there is the last five years of Washington politics. The system manufacturing fake scandals in order to hide real scandals. The media, which still claims to be impartial observers, plays along because they have not choice. They are servants. The result is the real crimes get pushed to the shadows, while nonsense stories fill the air, often used to discredit people asking too many questions. This is rule by sociopath. It is a reflection of the ruling class as a whole.
The Gruden affair is a perfect moment to see the reality of this age. He is a person who holds normal opinions about things like race and gays. In private he talks like what normal people would expect from a sports coach. He is being hurled into the void on a morality charge by people who lie on spec. The relatively normal guy is condemned by the carny trash as morally unfit. That’s America in a nutshell. Our moral arbiters are vulgar degenerates and sociopaths.
The problems we see with professional sports in America reflect the problems of the West in general. Sport is a Western thing. Other people compete in small ways, but organized sporting activity is part of European man. There is a reason there is no equivalent of the NFL in Africa. Big time sports need big time societies and those societies will always be European societies. The other people of the world simply lack the capacity to produce these cultural artifacts.
As the West declines, sport has now declined with it. The people running pro sports, active in the destruction of the West, are operating under the delusion that they can survive the decline of Western people. In fact, many are driven by a desire to create a post-European world. This is what you see everywhere in the ruling class. You also see that it is unsustainable. Without the necessary human capital, these manifestations of Western culture cannot last and they will not last.
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True as the gist of your remarks may be, you’re overlooking three points: Gruden is stupid if he thought he could “talk normal” in emails he should have known would be intercepted and potentially used against him. Semi-black QB’s like Mahomes and all-black QB’s like Dak Prescott will prove to be as adept as Brady and Brees at reading and exploiting defenses. Plus they can run. Football is giving way to soccer in tune with the feminization of America. That said, suburban black dads and soccer moms could as successfully organize youth leagues as can suburban white dads and soccer… Read more »
Semi-black QB’s like Mahomes and all-black QB’s like Dak Prescott will prove to be as adept as Brady and Brees at reading and exploiting defenses. Plus they can run. No, they will not. We have generations of data on this. Let that dream die. It is never happening. Football is giving way to soccer in tune with the feminization of America. That said, suburban black dads and soccer moms could as successfully organize youth leagues as can suburban white dads and soccer moms. No, it is not. Youth participation in soccer peaked about 15 years ago. It has been in… Read more »
How many negroes do you suppose Jon Gruden has coached, coached with, or hired? How many negroes do you suppose Jon Gruden mentored and helped make better football players and coaches? People he probably thought were his friends and respected him. How many of those negroes are standing up for him now? How many have his back? How many are calling BS on this media hit? Of course, none. Always remember when you think of that nice negro at work, maybe a neighbor, you think he’s a friend and not like those thugs, remember that they will sell you down… Read more »
but muh content of character????
Commenter: “Notice how we aren’t allowed to see the entire emails that are referenced? It is highly unlikely that they were composed of simple one liners that the media have showcased.” Yes. Yesterday I watched a few ESPN shows talking about it. They would barely quote a sentence from the emails, much less a paragraph. They know that Gruden writes in reasonable everyman language. So viewers would immediately nod their heads in agreement with what he wrote. So they just metaphorically signalled his crimethink with the magic words, “homophobic” “slurs” “racist tropes”. They know that by hiding the context…keeping the… Read more »
do you think normie believes any of this? Is there anyone , right of center who says, ” well, those are racist, and racism is bad. So he is getting what he deserves..”?
Hard to believe, but I bet its so
It’s probably worth pointing out that the Raiders signed him to a 10-year, $100mm contract. He’s a mediocre coach, by NFL standards, so this controversy may be manufactured, in part, to escape that contract.
It turns out the baseball game this summer at “Field of Dreams” was the most watched baseball game in 20 years. You’d think the commissioners office would get that nostalgia and traditional America is what the people want to see, but they don’t. James Earl Jones famous “baseball” speech in the movie “..America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time…” no longer rings true. Surely America has changed and is no longer recognizable, and so has baseball, and all pro sports. I’ve played… Read more »
Why can you no longer copy links to the ZMan’s articles?
Watching tv sports is for the emasculated, that was the whole point of it, let the de-balled root for their “team”, acting manly. The chosen ones don’t dominate psychology for no reason. Destroying Whitey was a 100 year plan, now at its apex.. Celtic, Nordic, Germanic, go back in time to find your way out of this satanic dystopia. Go back to your ancestors, there’s no answers here, only lies and deception.
Somewhat related to this post, Revolver dot news has a link to an article about Wang Hunin, the chief political theorist for the Chinese Communist Party. A former admirer of America, that changed when he visited in 1988 and made the following observations in his book “America Against America”: — Wang recorded his observations in a memoir that would become his most famous work: the 1991 book America Against America. In it, he marvels at homeless encampments in the streets of Washington DC, out-of-control drug crime in poor black neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco, and corporations that seemed… Read more »
The article goes on to state that both Wang and Xi believe the same issues face China. That without a unified, nationalist culture and crushing of the commercial individualism China would fall like America. That China is as unequal as the US, more polluted, and more prone to young Chinese dropping out. [There is less racial strife of course] This fits in with the attempted purging of Dave Chapelle. The Netflix employee base and prominent trannies are trying to get him canceled. The Netflix boss said he’s too popular to cancel. Chapelle is of course black, which Gruden is not,… Read more »
适度繁荣 or Moderate Prosperity is the recent Xi pronouncement after lecturing some Chinese billionaires and crushing crypto. CCP seems to understand the negatives of the huge wealth gaps, seemingly seeing the lack of cohesion in USA and trying to head it off there.
Wang Hunin analysis of America is eerily reminiscent of Carroll’ Quigley’s report “on “the state if individual” he wrote in in 1976. Even back then the rot was very apparent in our society but many refused to see it back then. I’m old enough to remember that time and I could see the changes in our society brought on by liberalism. Yep even back then the MSM was woke and anti-conservative as can be. The Dems were still busy ramming blacks down our throats via forced busing and AA. In movies the “magic blackman” started to appear. I remember my… Read more »
Meaning and purpose, meaning and purpose, meaning…
Jesus, Buddha, Zeus, something numinous, anything other than nothing may pull you through. If you have a will you can find a way. Nihilism is killing Western Civilization.
“Ownership has given way to a class of mercurial operators with no loyalty to the local communities.”
“The coach of the league’s Las Vegas franchise…”
Yeah, speaking of no loyalty, I didn’t even realize until this news story that this was no longer “the league’s Oakland franchise.”
What still amazes me, even after all this time, is that public figured learned nothing from the Trump Phenomenon ™. Gruden should’ve stood there and said “Yep, I meant every word. That guy IS a dumbass with lips like tires, Goodell IS a p*ssy, and you know what? Pretty much every guy in the League agrees with me; they’re just too scared to say so.” Had he done that, the Las Vegas Raiders would instantly have become the most popular team in the League. Gruden could’ve had huge rallies in his defense… …but no, he apologizes, then gets #canceled. Have… Read more »
Yep. You ritually humiliate yourself and they destroy you anyway. It’s happened to guys like him dozens of times over the last 15 years or so. But they never learn.
Confessing at your show trial gives Stalin the excuse to shoot you. In fairness to the Old Bolsheviks, they were tortured into confessing. Grunden wasn’t tortured.
Bukharin strayed from the script at the conclusion of his show trial, insisting on his innocence in spite of all the ‘special methods’ used to induce the correct attitude. He was still shot – that was a foregone conclusion – but it led to his eventual rehabilitation, while his wife lived in relative peace to an old age. It also meant the end of the Yezhovchina and of the odious Yezhov himself.
These guys were never fighters to begin with. Most men aren’t, it’s a rare trait at best that one only tends to see among blue collars who work in dangerous professions. Not college grads who sit in a office all day. I remember my father telling me a story about a dozen or so American POW’s who had been released from a German POW camp. Well after leaving the port of Odessa and thir ship making a port of call at Alexandria Egypt. These men along with my father decided to have a look see at the forbidden quarter of… Read more »
I don’t do memes very well, but Chinese owner Joe Tsai* telling African-American Kyrie Irving that it’s the vaccine or the po’ house presents us with precisely the sort of ethnic wedge which we can use to break the psychological backbone of the Frankfurt School’s swarthy army coalition [which quite frankly is being held together with nothing more than psychological paperclips & duct tape]. It’s also the kind of grotesque ethnic disparity which ought to appeal to the sentiments of the typical BoomerCon Normie. If we can bust both working** class blacks & BoomerCon Normies free from their current imprisonment… Read more »
Huh.
I think the word “I$r@31i” triggered the m0d fi1ter.
I agree.
In a multicultural society, all politics is ethnic politics and those best at forming alliances and wedging rival groups, win.
This is what the other side does to great effect, i.e. dismissing Asians as ‘white adjacent’ when convenient and roping them back under the POC umbrella when they’re needed.
For a guy who’s always been rich, Trump is uniquely blind to real class signals. It’s why he was rappers’ favorite white man and why the establishment’s reaction to his political career has been such a deep psychotic break that they’re planning to murder the hundred million Americans who persist in not *getting* it.
Gruden blasts a lot of real-man noise, but he knows who he is and where he lives. There are no economic motivations there, and no popularity. No one up there has anything to learn from a dirt-toucher like Trump.
I think Trump’s blindness to social cues is due to his narcissism. Narcissists can be a bit like Autistics in that they don’t develop instinctive subconscious sensing of ‘the right thing to do/be/say’. A smart autist can develop an algorithmic theory of mind and thrive at the cost of extra conscious processor cycles. A narcissist rarely does; they’re blissful in their ignorance of and contempt for the quotidian.
I don’t mind Trump for his bull in the china shop aspect. But obviously don’t expect anything more from him.
Or you shouldn’t be looking through my private emails. Does everybody want to give us access to theirs?
If something is said publicly you can challenge them but no one ever needs to see this. His employer does and I wonder why. Basically thought crimes at this stage.
That was the other option. I was being hyperbolic, although in Clown World one almost has to… A perfectly reasonable response for Gruden to make was “I can separate my personal feelings from my job performance, because I am a grown up. And now I will be looking to sue the NYT and ESPN and whoever else it was that violated my privacy by ” leaking” confidential communications.’
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Not sure if he saw this. You can click his name to find the new site.
It is a bit of a catch-22. Grovel, and you will be canceled anyway, but now also humiliated. Double-down and you will be paraded as proving their point.. But at least you will be admired by the remnants.
“Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.” — Gen. John Stark
It’s not a Catch-22 at all. It’s a courage check. Heck, he wasn’t even facing death.
That’s just it. You know you’re done for anyway, so the only question is, how do you want to go out? On your feet, or on your knees? In Gruden’s case it’s especially galling, because I’m confident 75-95% of the league really *does* agree with him… and that goes double for the fans. If he’d just owned it, stood firm, and made them fire him, things would’ve gotten very hot, very fast for the Raiders and the NFL. They (probably) still would’ve done it, but it would’ve been in the teeth of massive fan support. (Of course, this is Clown… Read more »
Sadly, we have the very worst people in charge. I and my family already have “F U money” — we can afford to walk away from this kind of thing. It allowed my daughter to stand her ground in the face of a vax mandate.
But our “F U money” isn’t a rounding error on the kind of money Gruden has. Nothing is ever enough for these people.
Yeah, I would like to see the reaction if someone like that (who had had private emails or old social media posts “leaked”) didn’t apologize and simply responded by saying, “The fact remains that the guy has big lips. Prove me wrong.”
It’s not like he made the comments about a black guy with normal sized lips or about a black guy he didn’t know.
OT: was watching ramzpaul’s latest video — where he called out zman in the audience — and right at the part where he mentioned 50% of biden’s cabinet are hebes, the video became unavailable. very weird feeling.
You ever wonder if individual censors on youtube volunteer to watch certain podcasters just for the pleasure of messing with them?
individual censors
Also known as the JIDF.
All paid for by the USA tax dollars known as “Foreign Aid”.
I mean single people within the censor group, you know, for extra credit.
Dredel dredel dredel, I made you out of clay, dredel dredel dredel, with you I shall play…
that’s just what it felt like.
Another issue with youth sports in America is it has become something of a racket with “pay to play”, attracting legions of parasites who promise parents that their mediocre kids are going to get college sports scholarships or become millionaire professionals. The parents lap it up because televised sport is such a false godhead, and the one thing this country needs is more professional TV athletes, right?
Tempazpan: College and organized sports plus corporatism is a poisonous combination. When college used to be for well-bred and solidly-brained men, the students would naturally get together for informal sports competition. That was light years away from ‘college’ sports today, with ‘scholarships’ for illiterate ghetto blacks and purple-haired mutant womyn. And behind it all we find, as with everything, equality (college is for everyone!) and money (it is unnatural to be motivated by anything else).
The fees for travel sports teams are insane.
A few years ago some one was telling me they were paying $4k in fees so their teenage son could play travel lacrosse.
The lengths to which Normies/NPCs will go in order to be seen as part of the In-Crowd is both cringe- & SMDH-worthy.
And it’s such a profound meta-darwinian weakness in Our Race.
All the Frankfurt School has to do is seed the culture with ambient social signals indicating that suicide is cool, and yuge portions of Our Race will be fighting hand & fist with one another to be the first to commit suicide.
There is another side of this coin, and yet another way academia exploits children and families. The AAU coach charges upwards of $3 grand to play a season of, say, AAU basketball. Tells parents what they want to hear, their kid will “play college ball…” While taking said fee, adds “scholarship” athletes that pay nothing. Plays them more. Down the road, Division 3 coaches induce kids to “play” at their school. Full or partial scholarship? No. Maybe some “academic money” is promised. Often times kid, trying to live out their parents’ ‘dream’, attends crappy school (e.g., Western New England College),… Read more »
Lacrosse exists at a lot of D III schools to attract more boys, the result being many high level D III schools have huge rosters- most of the kids on those teams won’t see the field. I’m less hostile to sportsball than most of you on this forum, while not blind to the poz contained therin- I enjoy watching high level athletes do things I could never do- of course the sports I follow, hockey, lacrosse, baseball, golf, all have something in common… Possibly a topic for another day: One thing I really dislike is the management of the modern… Read more »
Surprisingly, a black writer for an ESPN site wrote a serious critique of AAU basketball in 2018. It got almost no publicity, I found it by accident once. The whole thing is a scam to the point the organizers should be charged with RICO violations. The majority of players and their parents are constantly lied to about their chances of getting college scholarships. Travel soccer and baseball/softball leagues are the same way. It completely dominates the family’s life, costs a tremendous amount of money and at the end, if your kid is elite, you may have a limited pool of… Read more »
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to scam Normie. Most of these AAU parents fit that description. The coaches, indeed the entire NCAA is in on the scam. Another part of it is the “letters of interest” coaches have their assistants send out by the ton weight. On impressive college stationary, “oooh look hon, the Salisbury Seagulls want our Tess!” Yet not realizing that these letters are fakes, mass-produced and sent, often to entire lists of kids registered at AAU tournaments. Minus DIRECT and PERSONAL contact from a scholarship granting decision maker, their is NO CONTACT.… Read more »
Yet not realizing that these letters are fakes, mass-produced and sent, often to entire lists of kids registered at AAU tournaments. Minus DIRECT and PERSONAL contact from a scholarship granting decision maker, their is NO CONTACT.
They’re trying to lure the parents [psychologically] into a frame of mind where the parents agree to send the kid to the coach’s $2500 one week summer camp.
All it takes is 100 clueless parents, and the coach grosses a cool quarter of a million dollars [of which maybe $25,000 is overhead for the room & board in an otherwise empty dormitory].
tl;dr == The average NCAA sports coach is an outright poisonous snake in the grass.
A righteous f@ther would only approach them with a loaded M0ssb3rg Twelve-G@uge.
It’s the “Vanity Publishing” racket for stupid white parents.
So, what exactly did Gruden say? All I’ve heard is that he called Totally Legit Joe a “clueless pussy,” which he undeniably is.
In a 2011 e-mail, he referred to DeMaurice Smith, as “Dumboriss Smith” and that Smith “had lips like michellin tires.”
Smith is the executive director of the NFLPA
BTW, notwithstanding his University of Virginia JD, Mr. Smith is not exactly the most mellifluous cat.
Nobody would confuse him with Clarence Thomas.
I’m sure he’s nothing more than a socially promoted moron, just like the vast majority of nuggras in high places.
Is Mr Smith Benjamin Crump like eloquent. An orator for sure that one.
When you’re right, you’re right. The only thing missing is the Michelin logo:
He also opined that women had no business being football referees.
They have no business being refs or sports reporters. The smartest woman on the planet cannot understand football as well as a serious male football fan with an IQ of 110. Try as they may, women don’t have this special form of aptitude–or perhaps they don’t have the deep-down interest–that most men do.
I’m absolutely convinced that the reason for the proliferation of negro quarterbacks is that the head coaches and offensive coordinators decided that they would be well advised to take advantage of negro running ability at the position, and the only way to be able to do that was to dumb down the offense. My guess is that offensive schemes are far simpler now than they were in 2001.
During training camp, it has been reported that rookie Patriots quarterback Mac Jones was teaching the playbook to 11 year vet Cameron Newton.
Jones is whiter than Opie Taylor. Newton is the apotheosis of the “athletic” quarterback.
Just for emphasis: Newton was the Patriots’ starting QB last year. Apparently, he was bamboozled by the playbook.
A football has a higher IQ than Cam Newton.
The problem with, “athletic,” QBs in the NFL is that everyone in the NFL is large, fast, and well-conditioned.
All those hits from dozens of defenders add up on the athletic QB.
Once they lose that first step, it’s over.
In contrast, Brady has been able to hang around forever because of his uncanny sidestep and generally favorable treatment from the refs.
Yep. If you want to win the Super Bowl, a smart, white QB is still the way to go. But such QBs are becoming extinct. High school coaches in lily white schools find the most athletic negro and stick him at QB, which means that college coaches have increasingly slim pickins if they want a traditional quarterback. And if there are none of those at the collegiate level, there won’t be any in the NFL either.
Being fair to the coaches for a second, coaching a “pro style” offense is orders of magnitude harder than coaching an “option” system. Even if your “athletic” quarterback is taught to pass first, run second (a rarity), all you really have to coach the offensive line to do is “hit that guy.” The receivers are told to run to a spot and turn around, and so on. An actual pro-style offense means that everyone needs quite a bit of coaching. All the O-line guys need to understand their assignments (not just “go hit that guy”). Receivers have to actually be… Read more »
“…got two hours a week to practice…”
Heck, even my daughter’s middle school volleyball team practiced at least two hours a day three days a week. Same for me when I wrestled (except it was five days a week for wrestling) and played soccer. The football team practiced at least as much at the wrestling team.
Cthulhuvious–I like it. He does belong to the chthonic race.
You’re totally correct, but the running QBs take a beating. The fact is, most black QBs can’t read defenses quick enough or well enough. As a consequence, their go to play is the jungle bunny jaunt – Vick was a prime example. There have a few decent black pocket passers, but they’re rare. The White guys dominate that aspect.
Notice how we aren’t allowed to see the entire emails that are referenced? It is highly unlikely that they were composed of simple one liners that the media have showcased.
But no, we cannot allow the lowly dirt people to read, analyze, and decide on the full context contained within the content of the emails.
As Zman states, this points to a distraction attempt away from the WFT issues currently going on.
You can trace the decline of the San Francisco 49ers to the very day that Eddie DeBartolo stopped being the hands-on owner and ceded control to his sister.
And as size began to matter more than smarts, it stopped being a sport and became more and more a giant shoving match, to where now it’s…. boring.
Baseball has been slower to follow the other team sports into the dumpster, because the very nature of the game strongly selects for high IQ. But upper management is sure making the effort.
It’s difficult to imagine that the pervasive religion of anti-whiteness may continue to go unnoticed by average White people who simply want to work hard, raise children, live their lives, maybe even occasionally enjoy a sportsball game. The de facto anti-whiteness will control not only on an exterior level (the way whites are treated by the systems which manage our lives; education, business, judicial, etc.) but maybe even more disastrously on an interior level. It will determine how we self censor even before interfacing with those systems. That the backbone of society has become diseased in that way is catastrophic… Read more »
Vulgar is the perfect word to describe them.
Can you do a column on how we’re going to paint what we want as being the higher moral claim with maybe some examples?
[…] ZMan does some analysis. […]
The sad thing is that done right, sportsball is a powerful vehicle for nationalism. But because America’s three largest sports are uniquely American, Americans rarely get to experience the euphoria of pitting their best against the world. There’s the Olympics of course, but they don’t feature American sports. But those old enough to remember when the US beat the Soviet Union on the ice rink, might have an inkling of the sensation; Zman wrote a column on it a couple of years back. I’m not really a sportsball fan, I think watching sports is supremely boring. Except when the Danish… Read more »
I’m not trying to be disrespectful in this comment. I think the constant concentration on “the world” is a major part of the problem, especially when you consider how many sportsball teams are made up of non-nationals. Like the English cheering on Africans playing sportsball wearing English jerseys. Everyone wants to change “the world” or save “humanity” or feed the starving children somewhere else or send doctors to 3rd world countries or save some rain forest somewhere.. Meanwhile, they ignore everything in their own backyard. People will literally step over the homeless in their own city walking to their job… Read more »
I don’t detect any disrespect in your post. And yes, sportsball nationalism only works if those on the field are your own people. The Italians, who won the world championship, was 100% Italians, much to globohomo’s chagrin. I don’t know how much you heard of this in the US, but the finals against Italy ended in a draw, which meant it was decided by penalty kicks – the nightmare of fans and players alike. The woke British coach decided (entirely on his own volition, I’m sure) that the winning goal should be scored by a jogger, a guy who never… Read more »
Italy does have its token mulatto from Brazil, but even he was a replacement for a much better native Roman who got injured
Ha. I didn’t follow the Cup this time ’round. That’s brilliant stuff. Andiamo azzurri. And andiamo bianco. And a pox on the Afro-Brits.
Well, at least this summer at the eurocup, diversity lost (heavy diversity anyway). 🇮🇹
Yes. And let’s not forget that The Swedish Bikini Team trounced Team Degenerate.
https://defconnews.com/2021/07/21/america-hating-us-womens-soccer-team-got-their-asses-kicked/
Yeah, except the Canadians took the gold with a trannie on their team.
except the Canadians took the gold with a trannie on their team.
I’ll take that as a win for mankind.
OTOH, the guy who weightlifted for the Aussie team, didn’t manage a single lift. Really let the side down.
Trannies are not on my team.
This is something I actually put to some French people around 2018, are you really actually proud of this team of Africans wearing your flag? The answer was no, not really, especially compared to the earlier team (1998?) that won it all, but at that point it was all they had. I read a lot of “if it wasn’t for immigration, England wouldn’t have a national team” during the Euros this summer. That propaganda really ramped up after those blacks choked in the final match. Of course this is ludicrous. Were it not for immigration, England would field a team… Read more »
MSM: “Of course they’re French, bigot! All naggers are French and besides, there’s no such thing as French. Also MSM: “Hahaha! Africa won the world cup! Take that, Frog bigots! The difference between countries like England and France is that they get a lot of their diversity from their former African colonies. In Scandinavia and Germany, most of the diversity is Arab or Turkish and they suck at playing ball, so there’s simply too few footballnaggers to make an impact. As I said above, I only watch the games were the Danish team plays, so I have no idea if… Read more »
Well Z, I was reading Blab the other day and one of the guys said, whites have no place in pro football anymore. It should be handed over to the chimps en masse, and Whitey should cut his losses and walk. We need our own spaces and we need to police them. I see Bill Mitchell got run off Blab, and stuff like that is a step in the right direction. Bill means well, but he’s old and stupid and needs to go out to pasture. Most of our worst SJWs and cucks are old geezers. They aren’t relevant anymore… Read more »
yup, the problem is civ nats. I hear it in the 2A community all the time, “No matter your race, color creed or sexual orientation, we all came together at the capitol… blah blah”
Or: “Democrats instituted gun control to keep blacks down! “
When “we all came together at the Capitol” … one thing I noticed is that vibrancy was almost entirely absent (probably less than 1% of the crowd). Hmm….
When 90+ % voted for the guy on the other side of the razor wire that’s no surprise
Hey, instead of the old segregated negro leagues, we can have the new Whitegro leagues. Sans the joggers and other various shades of mud, I’d watch again.
Our present isn’t far off from the James Caan movie Rollerball (remade at one point with LL Cool J). A classic movie that never seemed to be replayed that much. Far lesser movies were always being replayed. I think there was a brief window in the 1970’s where something like this could be made. People weren’t that down yet with the corporate oligarchy scene.
Rollerball was on TCM a couple of weeks ago. They aired it right before Kansas City Bomber (Raquel Welch), for a roller-skating theme. The guy introducing the movie briefly explained the plot, and when he came to the corporate oligarchy part, said something like, “sound familiar?”
James Caan has always been a right-winger (he was a highly vocal Trump supporter in both 2016 and 2020) so hid movies always are worth watching. The original “Rollerball” was a classic, and yes, KC Bomber was a great B movie. Raquel Welch was that rarity, a hot actress who could actually act. She’s a righty, too FWIW…
James Caan as Sgt Eddie Dohun in the WW2 epic, “A Bridge Too Far,” was totally badass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyqGOtUrgd8
he is an actor. Its not real.
“When America was based on strong white communities, it had lots of white fathers volunteering to coach sports, run youth leagues and so on. As the white population declines, white volunteers decline. As society becomes more diverse, which brings deracination and alienation, the organic structures that make youth sports possible decline.” I think one word here is key: fathers Who introduces you to sports (usually)? Your father. What image is almost guaranteed to get a male misty eyed? The idea of “Playing catch with dad.” (For white fellows, this is usually dad playing catch with a baseball and a mitt)… Read more »
This doesn’t really explain the rise of the black athlete though. Because their “fatherlessness” problem has been more pronounced than that for white kids. I’ll take a shot at that. Activists in the media (ahem, we know who they are) saw football and basketball as two avenues through which to promote blacks. This is one key. Even without steady parenting from a present father, black kids see sports as their ticket (similar to how some see “aspiring rapper” as their ticket). Because of this media driven, activist notion that sports are a ticket to black success, black mothers have better… Read more »
I remember reading or hearing something about blacks in general physically maturing earlier than Whites. If a White kid has a lot of black teammates in middle school and high school it will be hard to get playing time. By the time he reaches his early 20’s and starts to catch up to blacks it usually to late for most to get into college or pro football.
Perhaps I should say, “Who introduces you to your lifelong interest / love of sports?” I love my late mother dearly. I also note that between the time my late father died and I was earning my own money and was well off enough to buy tickets for sporting events (ball and stick and auto racing), mom wasn’t just out of the blue offering to take me to a baseball or football game. Who took me to my first MLB game? Dad Who took me to my first auto racing event and made me a lifelong racing fan? Dad Who… Read more »
Ref – da Bears:
I’ve been yelling at them for +/- 50 years and could fill in for your dad – although my interest and emotion has waned significantly in that area – and I don’t expect it to return to the heights of days of yore.
On target.There is no place in Football, BB or even baseball for white boys. Let the Joggers have them.
Let the whites play Soccer/Rugby/Lacrosse, etc.
Even more important get them to learn useful skills like basic auto repair, working with wood, metal, basic electronics, home ec etc.
A lot of them aren’t hard to learn. Sadly most modern dads are a rather helpless lot and shop classes have all but been eradicated from school
These skills are always useful as opposed to being a good swimmer in a pool or kicking a ball.
What made the NFL was instant replay — a tech development. Watching the game in person or on TV is incoherent because it’s a blur. The instant replay slows down the action and lets the commentators tell you what happened, then throw in a little story from their playing or coaching days. The atmosphere was guys sitting around, drinking, b.s.’ing about sports. That’s long gone.
I agree with the 2nd part (blur) but still enjoy hockey in-person and find it slightly disorienting to watch televisually (which might be from glare off the rink but basketball overcomes a bad, low-contrast arena with reflecting surface).
The prime factor in suiting football for TV is the stop/start nature and the emotionalism/soap-opera that the medium imbues. Instant reply only reinforces this aspect already native to gridiron culture, so called. Baseball and soccer are really slow with ample room for commentary too but only infrequently as “dramatic.”
The big risk for football v basketball/soccer/baseball is participation. You can do pickup games at least for basketball and soccer with as little as six, and you can play relatively injury free well into middle age. So the interest can be cultivated well past high school when most stop playing football at any competitive-ish level.
As for blurs, slow mo has also helped soccer and basketball since most intricate moves go by so quickly you can’t see them. Of course going to a game is more about the experience than actually watching what’s happening on the field.
I used to play pickup two-hand touch football Saturday mornings into my mid-30s.
You need at least a dozen guys to make it work.
We always had mostly decent people who accepted being touched down.
Sometimes people brought flags. Those things are fiddly and don’t always rip away when they should.
Occasionally we’d have a tough guy or two show up and insist we play tackle.
Yeah, no….our health plans are not that great.
Tackle football or kill-the-guy in someone’s backyard was always an exhilerating afternoon when growing up. Today, I never, ever see the neighborhood sweethearts getting dirty and bruised.
Jack Boniface: Not to knock anyone’s genuine interest in what used to be genuinely White sports, but I think a huge part of the draw was that it used to be primarily a male space. Women could/would watch, but it was ‘the guys’ who got together for sports games and shooting the sh&t. Now women have not only become sports reporters but also referees for male sports, and ‘tailgating’ has become a female hospitality contest. All the more reason for White men to let go of the sentimental historical attachment to sportsball. Boycott this degenerate inversion and let it die.… Read more »
Seeing couples out on a beautiful fall Sunday with both man and woman wearing matching sportsball shirts is a sign of a fallen society. That’s the commonality that ties your relationship together? How is that any different from wearing matching aprons? The sexes need their own spaces, free from the leveling effects of the (((popular culture))).
Exactly. I can’t stand female announcers for men’s sport. Just not right.
I’ve never considered live-action football a blur. In fact, it’s far easier to process real time than basketball, which really can be a bit blurry.
Forgive me for the autism post: I’d have to disagree that the 1980s were the period that football leapfrogged baseball as America’s #1 sport. My hometown *college* football stadium was already packing just slightly south of 95k on Saturdays by the 1970s. Even most professional baseball stadiums don’t accommodate that kind of crowd. The NFL Super Bowl was pulling 50+ million viewers by the early 70s, (for comparison, I think last year’s game was less than 100k and it peaked in the 110k range in the 2000teens. Meaning, in a span of nearly 50 years, with widespread proliferation of TV… Read more »
I was thinking the 1970s as well.
Monday Night Football with “HOW-ard CO-sell”, Dandy Don Meredith, Keith Jackson, Frank Gifford, et al. Even as a kid I knew that was what the other kids at school would talk about.
Monday Night Football had a lot to do with elevating the popularity of football. I had the same experience as a kid talking about the game on Tuesday morning. It was an event on primetime.
Z is probably remembering the same “Wide World of Sports” that I do as a kid where a lot of sports ranked pretty equally in the media. Now, at least in the states, it’s football and, if there’s time, everything else. (My impression is that Europe is much the same with their football).
The Pro Bowlers’ Tour was on ABC every Saturday afternoon during wintertime in the 70s and early 80s and was treated seriously. But by the mid 80s it didn’t have enough bombast to warrant promotion on network television.
And by bombast I mean “joggers”.
Professional Baseball requires, first and foremost, very high IQ and all that goes with it (extreme decision-reaction time both physical and mental, which map right with raw IQ). Even the vibrants in MLB are from the extreme end of the IQ curve. This alone serves to deflect joggers, tho the league’s new initiative to “encourage more minorities into the sport” is trying its damnedest to change that…. despite that unlike all other professional sports, MLB most accurately reflects America’s demographics.
Reziac: But American baseball teams are more than half mestizo, I believe, which challenges your assertion that the game requires a high IQ.
The positions that require the most cunning — manager and pitcher — still heavily skew white.
Likewise catchers and middle infielders.
Nope, still mostly white, and while Latinos increased considerably in recent decades, that proportion has stabilized. (And some are Latino in name only, being of mostly Spanish ancestry.) However, Latinos are definitely displacing blacks in the sport.
Here are extensive historical demographics:
https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/baseball-demographics-1947-2016/
Do you think most of the legion of Caribbean Latino players have a very high IQ?
Relative to other Caribbeans, likely they do.
Can’t really go by stadium crowd size as an indicator. Football only allows for one game a week, whereas baseball can have 3 games in a week, if not more. So for an equivalent 90k stadium, you’d only need a 30k one.
It’s a convolution of the law of cause and effect, or post hoc ergo propter hoc. First you pick the victim, then you discover the crime, which is easy enough if the perp is white, a necessary and sometimes sufficient condition.
Every piece of Grudenhass I’ve glanced past has had the same current_year allegation in it: he “used a racist trope.” That’s a weird phrase if you know what words mean, as journalists don’t. They’re saying he referenced a racial stereotype—and by that they don’t mean that he referenced a racial stereotype, but that he described a man with tire-like lips as having tire-like lips, because he has them. They don’t say that that man’s black, but he must be, since for those of us who don’t know who the man is, they allow the “racist trope” of tire-like lips to… Read more »
Never overlook that media employees are tilted, as a practical matter, toward non-heterosexual men who enjoy dishing above all else. “Offended by” = “OMG check out this scandalous tidbit, hurry, hurry”
Of course, classic pre-electronic trope of such behavior was not that type but instead the gossipy village matron taking glee in younger villagers’ misbehavior under cover of umbrage. Such woman usually didn’t have free time to blog for ESPN on the side
Once, many, many years ago, a girlfriend who professed to be liberal came with me to London Zoo. Upon seeing the gorilla behind his glass, she leaned across and whispered “They look like black people.”.
They all know. Features is features.
Makes me think of this deleted scene from Spinal Tap. One of my friends and I will sometimes refer to the swarthier types around us as “bread eaters”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXa4T7strzY
Back in the early 80s, American sportsball announcer Howard Cosell got in hot water for referring to black Washington Redskins receiver Gary Clark as a “tough little monkey.” Cosell meant nothing by that other than that Clark was tough. However, the media exploded in indignation because they innately knew of the resemblance between blacks and non-human primates. Thus, in attempting to anathematize noticing this resemblance, the media unwittingly validated the resemblance.
And that was the end of his announcing career, I believe.
He actually survived for some time afterward and was able to retire at his leisure. However, his career was certainly in jeopardy for a while. If Troy Aikman used the term “tough little monkey” today, however, he’d be given the Gruden treatment immediately.
When I was a kid, i said the same thing, because they friggin DO!
Jimmy the Greek effectively ended his career by simply telling the genealogical truth.
Howard Cosell had the juice thing going.
It is interesting how short-sighted are the people who run professional sports. I am not sure if they are just greedy for immediate profits, incompetent, or purposely strip-mining the institutions to run off with the proceeds. I’ll use MLB as an example. My father-in-law reminisces of being a kid growing up in West Philly in the 1950s (yeah, that neighborhood has changed quite a bit since then), and he and his friends would cobble together a few dollars, take public transportation, and get to Connie Mack Stadium many times over their summer to see the Phillies. Those experiences make young… Read more »
“In summary, MLB makes it harder for young American boys to become fans given ticket prices and game times, limits the opportunity for American boys to become major leaguers in favor of cheaper Central Americans, and limits the ability for American fans to relate to the players given the number of foreigners. Maybe this maximizes short term profit, but it is ruining the foundation of the game.” It’s truly pathetic seeing 30,000 30 plus year olds watching a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Absolute loser poseurs trying to prolong developmental adolescence pretend they will never die. There are hardly… Read more »
When ticket prices are a couple hundred bucks, naturally it’s all adults. No one pays that to bring their sleepy gradeschooler to a game.
At the end of the season, after the Angels were eliminated, they ran a $3 per seat ticket special. Funny thing, suddenly there were a lot of kids in the stands.
Not in Boston. Not with the beta cucks who own the Red Sox, ever.
Well put, and that’s a sport that needs all the help it can get.
” all 30 MLB franchises have development camps …”
This is sickening. WHen its just about the economy, stupid! ANd they rub our noses in it, about the great immigrants and the lazy, fat americans. Great post
Their solution is simple: Import more Dominican and Venezuelan fans!
Steinbrenner used to forbid mustaches and long hair. In the La-Z-man league, no tats or dreads or any clown hairdo. When I see Yadier Molina, I see an Ese gangsta who might have tried to pop off Hoyt in the bathtub in Training Day. Every announcer feels the need to crawl up this jerk’s backside every chance they get ‘legend this’ and ‘beloved champion that’. If any wholesome American kid worships that creature, it is one too many kids. The Hispanic players nowadays like to sport the Amish beard. One of them on the Boston club, has shin guards and… Read more »
The US obsession with cheap labor started before the country was founded and with a very few exceptions like Henry Ford is so entrenched in the culture that we will near suicide ourselves before we allow wages to rise a penny. Our current 40 hour work week and its wage laws are the product of decades of riots culminating in the Roosevelt soft dictatorship and subsequent legislative cram downs They have been fought tooth and nail every moment of every day by the Country Club Chamber of Commerce sorts with the results of about 5 decades low fertility, urban collapse… Read more »
Baseball keeps celebrating the amazing success of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color line and becoming the first black superstar in the game. Never mentioned is the fact that no player of any ability can walk into the clubhouse and make himself a part of the team, he must be signed to a contract by the general manager. In the case of Robinson it was white guy Branch Rickey that was willing to take a chance and make him a Brooklyn Dodger. Rickey’s name doesn’t come up in the celebration of the integration of major league baseball.
RIght. The whole story of doing it on their own. Women too.
If we were an honest people we would recognize: white men have given the world everything.
Branch Rickey’s name USED to come up in tandem with Jackie Robinson. But as of about 20 years ago, when the last people who remembered Rickey aged out, that went away and now it’s all about how Robinson magically jumped over the barriers laid down by evil white men and thereby uplifted the sport.
Africa has the Kaiser Chiefs football club:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizer_Chiefs_F.C.
Obviously, certain mascots are no problem when, ‘they,’ do it.
Of course, you could go the Rooney path, which is to shovel money into Democratic pockets for 88 years, and make sure the Feds will stay off your back. It’s kind of interesting that professional feetsball also took off in popularity not only with the rise of television, but also with the beginnings of the destruction of postwar industrial America. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Steelers became magically popular just at the time that the steel industry in Pittsburgh collapsed. The Rooneys filled the hole left in once functional, orderly blue collar mill towns that had pride… Read more »
Being a sports fan is the one place white people are allowed to come together and root for what they perceived to be their own side. No where else can white people be exclusive like this, so all of that energy gets funneled into it.
Especially true of college football.
I’d argue that the military was also like that once. It historically was white men who won the victories, up to the ultimate victory of 1945. Even into the imperial wars, one could argue that the backbone of the service was white men, and the defeats were attributable to the politicians, not the troops. Since 1992, that has also been slowly, then rapidly, taken away.
It’s also not a coincidence that the NFL went all in on pimping the armed forces, and waving the flag, even before 2001.
I recall the movie Relentless with Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah. It portrays life in a PA steel town as being so miserable that the Aidan Quinn character Johnny’s dad pretty much drinks himself to death, while Johnny plays football to try to get out of that life.
I wanna say the dad was played by the late great Charles Durning but I think it was another guy I confuse with Durning. Can’t be bothered to look it up, but the movie is a good watch, and a good listen due to the soundtrack.
All those movies about dying rust belt towns from that era always neglected to point the finger at the real culprits, those that in a single generation destroyed a prosperous way of life for tens of millions of Americans.
“Well we’re living here in Allentown.
And they’re closing all the factories down”.
“They”? It sounds so sterile and inevitable. It was actual humans that pulled the rug out from under countless communities.
unions did their part in getting the mills closed.
I never engaged in any sport as a kid, except boxing, but there I was an outlier as a middle-class white kid. It’s a truism among the Turks in Germany in the grade schools that the Germans (what they call native-born whites) don’t fight back. You can see tons of videos online of Turks just wailing on white children at parks and schools who curl up into balls while the Gastarbeiternachwuchs (descendants of the guest workers) beat the crap out of them. Black kids in America have always been taught white kids are easy marks, and now that resistance is… Read more »
You sound a little bit like James LaFond. But I doubt he would ever post here……
Ain’t no one said it better than Muhammad Ali.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqiWFLsgVi4
This is beautiful and should be required viewing for everybody. Who is the mensch in this exchange: Ali or the effete host mouthing platitudes while squirming in his chair? This was an oratorical KO.
Ali is cut off at the end, but you can hear him say ‘I hate nobody’ right after he says ‘I love my own people’. And that is the essence of it. There is no hate in what he says. His interlocutors can’t grasp that and I bet he would never say ‘I love my own people too’ even if he qualified it with a ‘but’.
Fury beat Wilder? How come I didn’t hear anything? For some reason, this highly anticipated fight wasn’t in the news.
It’s funny, but once whitey started dominating heavyweight boxing–beginning with the Klitchko brothers–the media stopped covering it. Purely coincidental, I’m sure…
Gambling: it’s a big factor in the resurgence of football this year and probably explains why NFL football hasn’t (yet) followed the TV ratings fate of NBA basketball. The “fantasy league” phenomenon and the legalized sports betting in many states have saved the NFL and the league has basically aligned itself with the gambling companies. Meanwhile, the NFL has a 100% injury rate and no team could field a full team on Sunday without the aid of a vast array of strong painkillers for the combatants. The DEA raid is the classic “speeding ticket at the Indy 500” situation. This… Read more »
Legalized gambling and fantasy sports are brilliant in their way — whoever designed them figured out a way to monetize the fact that every guy in the viewing audience knows exactly what the coach should’ve done on 4th and 2 from his own 41 yard line. Our Thing ought to learn from that. The trick is to have a formidable-enough arcana that you have to spend some time learning it and thinking it through — e.g. game odds, betting the over, three-team parlays and whatnot — but simple enough that the average guy can get it with a little effort.… Read more »
The root of cancel culture is intimidation. Just like public square stocks & hangings of the bygone past, the idea is to make a few very public persecutions of scapegoats and thereby send a message to the masses that they had better “play ball” or they will be next in line. And they do this because it works. The flip side also works quite well. The masses pretend to play along and then operate from the shadows when its payback time. What goes around comes around, with the main difference being it is the very opposite of public. Do that… Read more »
You know what is disgusting? Absolutely nauseating?
“That’s not who I am.”
Peak vomitaciousness.
In the never ending quest for more dollars the owners and the leagues have managed to suck all the other values out of the relationship between the fans and the teams. They’re not just pirates they’re parasites as well. Our political masters have managed the same trick. I remember when politics required serious people, now, it’s all rejects from the travelling freak show. The fans are just the rubes who show up at the carnival to be fleeced for their money. No one even pretends anymore. At least some people have finally figured out the scam where the owner says… Read more »
Grillers think nothing of driving over broken roads, leaking tunnels and dangling bridges to arrive at a gleaming new $3B stadium financed by municipal bonds! Even the goddam parking garage at Yankee Stadium is financed by muni bonds and it costs $40 to park, FFS!
But there’s absolutely no frickin way we can build a new $5B tunnel to New Jersey because there’s no money. A busload of Democrat Yankee fans will drown in the inevitable tunnel collapse on their way to the game and it will be blamed on Trump.
After stepping away from sportsball for a while, coming back is like stepping into another world. Announcers are fake. Fake personalities, voices, fake gravitas and authority, and fake excitement. They’re phonies, imposters who are impersonating what they think a “manly” football fan is like. The fans are apparently grown adults who are reduced to screaming like children over a ball being thrown around. The athletes have no connection with them, and most of the black ones hate them. The ads are aggressively promoting race mixing. It’s not just a mixed couple here and there, it’s like they’re reaching out of… Read more »
As Rupert Murdoch said, “sports are tribal”. Herein lies the meaning in it for the average Joe. He is alienated, his wife hates him (if she hasn’t left him already), he hates his job and his kids don’t respect him. But he turns on the tube and his “tribe”, colors flying, is marching to the end zone….suddenly he forgets for a while.
Identical experience. Once you turn off, being reintroduced to the world of sportsball is an alien experience. I find myself staring with disbelief at friends and coworkers who still stare gaping at the modern minstrel show.
Strangely, though, it doesn’t necessarily apply to watching old clips from the times when you used to be a fan. The presentation wasn’t nearly as obnoxious or cloying and the lack of jogger worshiping ads improves the experience.
Joe buck – the absolute king of obscure baseball stats the no one could possibly give a crap about. “Believe it or not, John Doe is the first pitcher in the conference since covid, to not only get covid, be hospitalized, on a ventilator, then get his two jabs plus booster and come back to strike out the side. Wow, just wow.”
Identical experience as well. I have found personally, if I get the urge (which I have much less than before) I simply have it on in the background with the sound off. I occasionally look up and watch something that catches my eye or during what appears to be an exciting moment, while otherwise going about my day. If someone is like me, still enjoys the particular sport but is tired of the BS, I have found that simply having no audio, no fan noises, provides a more sterile experience where I can enjoy a certain element of it if… Read more »
The degenerate parasites who run this country have long believed that they can simply start feeding on China once the United States has been sucked dry, but the CCP, while evil and blood-drenched, is not stupid. They can see what has happened to the United States over the last fifty years, and they are having none of it. This is why the US “elites” are so schizo about China right now. They know that jumping over to a new host is not going to work now, hence the new-found hostility to China in some “elite” circles; but they still want… Read more »
China bleeds its people, but not quite dry because they are its people. Not so here. Besides, China knows not to get in the way of its enemy’s self-destruction. It’s hilarious to read so.e Republicans / neocons decry China’s (and Russia’s) hypocrisy for promoting degeneracy here while crushing it home. That’s not hypocrisy dumb@ss, that’s strategy.
Yeah, those CivNats have real problems with alien races promoting degenerate here. Unless, of course…
The drop in white kids playing youth football is understandable. Every parent now wants to ensure their kid keeps his brains and doesn’t get multiple concussions. The strength training and conditioning of the sport has evolved to where you have kids deadlifting 400+ in even the smaller schools. These guys can deal an incredible amount of punishment unseen a generation ago. If a parent wants his kid to play a sport, there are a wealth of other options available. One interesting aspect of youth sports today’s youth is it seems to veer towards kids trying for elite status, while more… Read more »
Why would anybody want their kids playing football today, given that African youths can viciously assault your child at any time?
We also know more about concussions and their long term effects.
We are a hockey family. My son plays hockey and yes, concussions are a real problem in hockey, but far less than in football. While the rest of my Southern-based family has all their sons in football, it has been a strict NO in ours.
It’s not just the concussions though. I despise football culture with a white hot passion, almost as much as basketball. In hockey, I get to hang out with other white families and be with MY people. I cheer for their kids, and they cheer for mine.
Here in Canada hockey has been pretty pozzed. All the minor league players are now required to be vaccinated to enter a hockey rink. Coaches are required to go through gender theory training. They’re pushing girls into boys hockey very hard.
Basically, hockey “doesn’t look like the country” (aka it’s all white and Canada is now a brown country), so it must be destroyed.
Still a great sport and I’m sure in the South it’s much better.
Chet, My thought is for ball and stick sports, you’re looking at three trends converging: 1) If you live in a town with a substantial “Diverse” population and you’re a white parent, your son isn’t going to be playing football or basketball for his school team past grade school or Junior High. To your point, your coach isn’t going to put Aiden or Jayden on the field, and if he does, he’ll get steamrollered. Unless he’s a kicker. 2) If you DO want your youngin’ to play organized sports, you’re in an arms race with other middle and upper middle… Read more »
This is a good synopsis by George Will on how football has changed: Football is bigger than ever, in several senses. Bear Bryant’s 1966 undefeated Alabama team had only 19 players who weighed more than 200 pounds. The heaviest weighed 223. The linemen averaged 194. The quarterback weighed 177. Today, many high school teams are much bigger. In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds. In 2011, according to pro-football-reference.com, there were 352, including three 350-pounders. Thirty-one of the NFL’s 32 offensive lines averaged more than 300. Various unsurprising studies indicate high early mortality rates among linemen… Read more »
Football is also faster than ever.
Many of those 350 pounders are running 0-40 times in the 4.7-4.9 second range, which is absolutely insane speed for people of that size.
Can you imagine the energy imparted if someone like that was to collide with you when they had a full head of steam?
I think some physics or mechanical engineering folks have actually wired modern football players up to find out the energy level in a modern football hit.
I think they found many hits were like being in a car accident.
No kidding. Back in my college days, I was was playing handball with a buddy who was a defensive lineman on the university team. Probably weighed 225-250 and I couldn’t believe how quick he was and the court coverage. Pretty amazing.
I was once involved, in a very tangential way, with a very very minor league sports franchise. There are a million little “developmental” leagues scattered around small-ish towns — this was all pre-Kung Flu, you understand — and all of them had the same problem: They just couldn’t build the customer base. Even minor league baseball had this problem: There was a built-in “floor” of fanatics who would come out to see the latest and greatest prospect from the Big Club (usually some high school pitcher who could throw 95 mph but couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn),… Read more »
Another lesson of modern sports is you can field a team of less than optimal athletes that can punch way above their weight class if you have the instinctual cohesiveness of a band of brothers.
And fans, at a gut level, can read that in a team and make them a joy to watch.
See: Herb Brooks and the 1980 Olympics.
The prime modern example of this were the, “Fab Five,” years of Michigan basketball.
Each individual player on those teams was a top shelf athlete, yet they repeatedly came up short on the big stage when they ran into a somewhat less athletic opposing team that played as a cohesive unit.
I saw this myself in a very minor way back in college. I was the sixth man on a championship basketball team… …in a dorm league, but given that kids played sports back then, we all played hard. We made it to the championship, where we came up against a team full of ringers — quite Diverse, of course, and of the most Vibrant kind. Even our best player (who was actually pretty good, had been a starter on a big high school team, etc.) was outclassed by everyone on the Vibrant team. So we actually played it up —… Read more »
When my team would play a vibrant team, we would compensate with ball circulation, perimeter/3 point shots. Oh and the secret weapon: pump fakes. They would jump at every single pump fake–not hyperbole. And since they can jump pretty high, we could take time to shoot in proper form.
Worked like a charm. Every. Single. Time.
I was one of the top receivers on my intramural flag football team in college in the mid 80s. 35 years later I haven’t lost a step. I can still run a 5.2 40.
The ringer team of vibrants in intramural leagues also will be incredibly confused if you run a basic zone. Its hilarious. I will never forget hearing them huddle up trying to figure out “why they playing fake man-on-man, what is it?!”
In truth, that’s a huge reason why pro football sucks. The incompetence displayed by most offenses stems from lack of cohesion on the o-line, so the only for an offense to function is to either buck the trend and develop an o-line (Browns, Bills) or have a freakishly good QB (Seahawks, Chiefs) to mask their deficiencies. But when the success of a team can be predicted by reading the roster at the beginning of the season, slogging through two hours of woke commercials for every game time slot, week after week, no longer has any appeal.
I know you weren’t talking about the cucked Toronto Maple Leafs. 😄 Where we live in Massachusetts people still go to the high school football games in the hundreds and sometimes thousands. Even as enrollment drops slowly most of the teams here still have 50-80 kids on the rosters. It’s a weird thing South of Boston has the feel of a “normal” America but it’s trapped in Massachusetts (duh). None of the local teams put anything on their uniforms for last year’s “enrichmemt events” save one, and even that was the word “equality.” The “Save the BIPOC rallies” down here… Read more »
Are you old enough to remember the southie-eastie game that drew over 10,000 fans? Ruined by busing, of course.
No. But my father and uncles were. Quincy vs North consistently had 2-4,000 through the 90s. Often times more.
My dad told me stories about the Tech Tourney, public and private in a round robin. Before they destroyed the MBTA stations. Always at the old Garden and that was with probably 10 additional public and private high schools.
Ah, the ol’ Gahden. The Bruins teams back in the 70s were something to behold. #4, Espo, Sanderson, Hodge, etc. And of course, the colorful dandy coach, Grapes who recently was unpersoned by his broadcaster for being unkind to the ‘new Canadians’.
Stepped away from pro sports a couple of years ago. Now it is impossible to watch for long. Everything about it – the ads, the announcers, and the way they play the games now repels me.
One of the biggest things to cut down on my sports viewing has been the commercials. They are non stop degeneracy and regime propaganda. I don’t want them on with our young kids in the room. College football doesn’t seem quite as bad as the NFL, but not by much.
It is a fascinating thing. Once you break away from it, you cannot go back. Everything about it is horrible.
It’s not just football. TV in general I’ve stayed away from for years. I play old movies on my DVD player. That’s it. Going back to a standard channel is very weird. The degeneracy hits you like a confused USN sub in the South China Sea.
It’s even weirder if you happen to have something saved that you recorded off the telly 5-6 years ago. Compare those adverts with the current ones shows how far we’ve come… in the wrong direction.
Freaks abound in the devil’s box. As TomA repeats with his distinct zeal: “Kill your TV”.
Network TV shows now are just bizarre. Almost half of them are propaganda for some law enforcement agency. CBS has three different shows celebrating the FBI. One of their few comedies is about a fat white guy falling in love with a fat black woman who is a Nigerian immigrant. Ratings have declined even beyond what you would expect from cord cutting. When we were kids we would watch shows like The A-Team with our dad. They don’t even try to come up with stuff you would want to watch with your kids now.
There are just better things to do. Get out. See how white your country is. That’s one thing I’ve learnt from ‘cutting the cord’… England is full of whites.
At the moment…
Almost like we might do something. Like… organize.
There’s no going back once the spell is broken. Once the Regime has broken everyone it can on the Covid Wheel (mine, and I like it), something approximating mandatory viewing will be attempted.
For sure. I tuned into the AFC championship game last year because I like Sean McDermott and wanted to see Josh Allen’s progress but had to turn it off after 15 minutes because most of what crossed the screen was a parade of inanities. The commercials were bad, but honestly the worst part is the commentary. It’s irritatingly stupid.
Found a replay of the Fury-black guy fight and they had a woman doing commentary. Just had to mute it.
An Usyk victory in style and a measurable drubbing by Fury all in less than 14 days. Jim Goad and the boys at CC are going to be chomping at the bit to make light of this!
Lately I find myself interested in local high school football, which I’ve never been other than playing football when I was a student.
Very odd. I must just like football. If that’s the case, small and local is much better. Plus, the players generally look like me and have familiar names.
Even in the before times the ritualized humiliation embedded in every PSA and advert was just too much for me. From tit cancer to ‘domestic violence’ to muh racisms. White fans will take a lot of insults for their entertainments. Even after the great kneeling kneegroes they seem to be quite forgiving. Especially if some of those same guys push back on the vaxx. Stunning and brave. All of the black disfunction gets transmuted into punish whitey. White fans get force-fed messages about how they should stop beating their wives, driving drunk, to show up and be a father for… Read more »
A big part of the problem is that white men refuse to be men, and stand up to white women. White women know that a ball tossing negro is just going to laugh at her if she tells him to put a mask on at the court. I’ve seen white guys cuck out so many times – when everybody knows the woman is nuts but they still reluctantly submit to her. I’m the opposite. White women (I specify white women because nobody else gives a crap about masks) quickly learn not to bother me. I either tell them some variation… Read more »
Indeed much can be distilled down to the sexual dystopia in the wake of feminism and its variants. The anarcho-tyranny vis a vis white mans civilization and blaq mans squatting included. Simply: rules are for white men. Every public sphere is the same. White guys standing in line and blaq guys going feral. When our culture ceded authority to women half of the cuck equation was set. Blaqs are more than happy to indulge the other half. Be it simply harvesting eloi directly or harvesting the fruit cultivated from our sense of order and goodwill shored up by conditioned deference… Read more »
I guess my question, or perhaps THE question is what will it take to get rid of all these psychos once and for all? It’s just BS insanity everywhere you look. I see CSU is threatening to arrest any unvaxxed students who “trespass” on campus. I see a report that a (vaxxed?) Delta pilot croaked in mid-flight and both the airline and media cover it up. Criminal joggers abound in the negro felon league, but rarely is there any reporting on that. Something has got to give and here’s hoping it gives soon – there are many scores that need… Read more »
That’s what I was thinking, about democracy in yesterday’s post.
Once the franchise has been expanded, how does one walk it back? There seems no way to reverse an experiment gone wrong.
Alzaebo asks, “THE question is what will it take to get rid of all these psychos once and for all?”
Pay non-whites to leave our country. No price is too high.
There will be whites who object to this plan. These people are our biggest enemy and my suggestion will force them to identify themselves.
The same can be said for Science. It was a product Western male thought, and it is in decline with its diversification. What is left of Science will not survive. There may be hired tinkerers and engineers working for government and corporations in the future, but it won’t be Science.
Bill Bryson wrote a book called A Short History of Nearly Everything. I recommend it. It’s a good, breezy read that is basically White People are Awesome: The Book. Bryson himself is a boomer liberal, and he probably doesn’t realize that he wrote the most pro-white book since The Turner Diaries. Nearly every character he mentions is Western, and the vast majority of those are either German, French, or British.
Great book, very readable for laymen. The hardback has magnificent illustrations, well worth the extra dollars.
And you could write similar books same about mathematics, art, music, literature, politics, engineering and warfare.
Ironically, joggers are the only people who can claim to score real wins against whitey: they’re better athletes (in some areas) and then there’s the embarrassing BBC… Piddling stuff like inventing gunpowder or paper pales in comparison to the BBC.
You should read his book “The Thunderbolt Kid”; his autobiography of what it was like to grow up in dystopian America in the 1950s.
Truly a hellscape of incredible proportion.
I wouldn’t be surprised if these ‘leaked’ emails are to distract and deflect away from the WFT’s ownership. Feds found a gold mine and ran with it.
Not sports but the arts, the recent dismissal of all those respectable white women docents at the Chicago Institute of Art. Probably leaning culturally left with upper middle class money they were all volunteers. Along with their obvious appreciation of art they required much training to be competent guides.
Not any more, being replaced by “paid volunteers” and of course people of color. We are being spared nothing by our dark troglodyte overseers. No matter, they probably accept all of this as progress for greater equality.
My first thought was, I wonder if Gruden has it in him to go scorched earth on these people and humiliate everyone he has dirt on who has denounced him on TV. He probably doesn’t want to further isolate himself, and his son is still a coach with the Raiders. Can you imagine what the last 20 years of Randy Moss’s text messages look like? Nothing will change, here is the NFL’s Super Bowl halftime show for this season, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige. It would be nice to see them forced to defend… Read more »
Gruden is a good example of how the slave mentality works. Mentally, he is a slave to the system. Even as he is being systematically anathematized by the system, he is operating as if he has something to lose. He is thinking that if he is contrite and ticks the right boxes, he can come back into the fold. It is pathetic, but he is like most white men now.
This is an incredibly apt description of the people I am surrounded by at my firm.
I think being socially ostracized is the biggest factor in his reaction. Football has been his whole life his entire adult life, even when he wasn’t coaching, he was on ESPN and running camps for elite QB prospects. He still wants at least some of these people to accept him as a friend even if he knows he can never get back in all the way. His brother is a coach and his kid was an assistant for him. I doubt he has a single friend who is not connected to the business. He can’t walk away from it.
Gruden (aka chucky) always came across as a tough guy type coach, but he sure as hell folded up here like a wet paper bag. Real tough guy for sure.
Gruden’s axed over a colorful descriptor. Meanwhile the NFL will have men perform during the Superbowl who wrote lyrics like,
Like my niggas from South Central, Los Angeles
They found that they couldn’t handle us
Bloods, Crips on the same squad
With the Ese’s helpin’, nigga, it’s time to rob and mob
And break the white man off something lovely, biddy-bye-bye
I don’t love dem so dem can’t love me
I marvel at how unobservant many whites remain.
I wonder if Dre thinks Jimmy Iovine is White
What in exercise in naming avoidance.
In should be an.
How would naming them in any way improve the essay?
It goes to who, when, where and why. Just the facts.
It’s 2021. Everyone already knows what you mean when you say “globalist”, “pirate”, “transient”, “cosmopolitan”, or “post nationalist”.
Kind of sad we’re still only as far as naming.
Thing is, everybody knows but fears offending the gods. At this point naming is a mantra, or a spell. There must be a better way. I suggest indifference. That’s what ultimately did the old gods in. “It’s all so tiresome” is a good start.
And we’re getting there. Sportsball, Hollyweird, national politics. Even money, it’s starting to look like! Glorious.
No we’re not at naming and never will be. This is just how Z rolls. Indifference works when you live in a nice rural dig and have a fat wad in a safe. and can afford to spend decades waiting for the tyrants to die off. But in general it’s a shit strategy to effect change. Just laying back in your Lay-Z-Boy and drinking soy milk while decrying what is going on in the world. This is why I respect the Muzzies who despite their low IQ and degenerate behavior get shit done. Why can’t whites with IQ’s several SD… Read more »
Indifference is doing your thing without regard to what the Jews in your Cheerios are doing.
Putting a gun to your head or living in it are functionally identical. Think TDS. Those clowns have gotten themselves in a bad spot while simultaneously making everybody miserable. Not a way to be.
Talk about missing the forest for the heebs…
Torba’s got an ADL meme thread up on Gab.
You just love to see it.
Because our esteemed host does not like us calling a spade a spade or even using bad words like “damn”, “sob”, etc, He has a very Steve Sailer type vibe. Which is cool if that is your kind of thing.
That said if you like calling a spade a spade get over to Gab. It’s pretty freewheeling over there. Z caters to a very different crowd than posts at Torba’s site or watches Tucker.