Hey, just a little survey…
I want to propose the the American people a one year boycott on professional sports. I’m thinking it will do some good, maybe. I dunno. I just think that athletes provide little except entertainment. And being a class clown, I never got paid to entertain. I’m also thinking of extending the boycott to the entertainment industry in general.
Any thoughts?
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Name a boycott that ever worked.
Yer pal,
Satan
And Satan cuts right to the chase. . .
Stop and think for a moment, Brood. How in the hell are you going to get enough people to agree to your boycott to actually make a difference?
– Sylence
I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.
I don’t know about a boycott but professional sports seem to be well on the way to pricing themselves out of the market.
No way I can afford to take my family to see the Mariners, even in the cheap seats. And building two (count 'em, two) new stadiums at a total cost of 4 billion dollars in Seattle after the taxpayers had voted on them and turned them down prompted our latest little tax revolt. The citizens of Washington passed an initiative that says the legislature can’t raise any taxes or fees without a public vote.
So viewing professional sports will become increasingly an activity of the well-to-do. Without the grass roots support that comes from a kid going to the ball park with his dad, the next generation will ignore the antics and whining of the overpaid egoists who want to call the shots.
And it will die a lingering but inevitable death.
We don’t need no stinking boycott!
note to satan: About a boycot that worked… Ever hear of the Mobile Bus Boycott? But, that was a whole different animal than someone boycotting professional sports or of Disney.
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I gotta agree with Satan here…
when I think of boycotts, I think of the great “Gas-out”, or whatever it was called here in California.
When we had a few refinery explosions in the Bay Area, gas prices went UP! People (naturally) complained, but, what could you do? Some genius figured we could "boycott" the gas stations, as a point of support toward stopping the companies from "price gouging".
What actually happened was that people actually needed the gas, all the time.
Some people topped their tanks off the day before, or the day after. It really did not matter if the participated or not!! Then again, this guy didn’t get the support he wanted…
What do you *exepct*? Sports fans are **rabid**! You need a great speech to get these guys and gals away from it!
The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
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“I dream that she aims to be the bloom upon my misery”
While I agree that most people don’t care enough about your issue (what is the issue exactly?) to boycott professional sports for a year, I can’t let Satan’s statement go unchallenged.
Off the cuff, I can think of two effective boycotts:
The boycott (1919-1922) of British products in India, followed by Gandhi’s supporters, unfortunately ended in rioting and the massacre of Amritsar, but helped publicize the India independence movement
The grape boycott sponsored by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers was one of the causes of the adoption of he 1975 Agricultural Labor Relations Act in California. According to polls millions of Americans supported the grape boycott.
Ya know, sometimes things in life just seem so unfair…
she says this wickedly as she sits here getting paid to play with sculpee (adult playdough) all day
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
I’ve always said that if I were King, I’d ban sport.
Of course, I only say that because I know I’ll never be King. If I was and did do such a thing, I’d be lynched.
Sport is a good thing - it’s more than just entertainment, it helps release tensions, it allows for combat and rivalry and loyalty for your region without actual dangerous violence and bloodshed (I’d definitely ban Boxing, though). Mostly.
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Fine by me. I’ll just stick with college sports.
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Only professional sports I watch is baseball…Atlanta Braves. But no way are you gonna make me stop watching my Duke Bluedevils play their college basketball.
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
And just how awesome is Cameron when it comes to watching a game?
Actually it is less fun when watching it as part of the visiting team. But being on that floor during warm-ups was more than enough for me to realize just how cool that place is to play in.
It pains me to say it, but Cameron is the best arena, just beating out Allen Fieldhouse, home of my beloved Jayhawks.
Sports provides entertainment? News to me. Mostly it’s just boring and slightly annoying.
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This is a typo, right? I thought the cost of SafeCo, and the new football stadium was around $1 Billion combined. (Which, is still too much money to imagine for two stadiums.)
Adam
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Brood asked
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Not exactly a typo but a number I pulled out of my memory while I was greatly exercised. Thinking about those stupid stadiums does that. Why, oh why couldn’t they build a dual-use stadium? Your number is probably more correct. Sorry.
And it would make things a whole lot easier if there were any Seattle sports franchise that ever finished above .500 in the last twenty years. We’re paying the big bucks to watch 'em lose!!!
Ah Pluto, you forget the proverbial, “If you build it, they will come.” I’ll tell you what. If the Tigers start winning division titles in the next few years, then maybe…maybe I’ll believe that building a new stadium brings championships.