Will ESPN spoil college
football for conservatives?
Power Line,
by
Paul Mirengoff
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
9/8/2020 4:15:47 AM
On Saturday, I watched football for the first time since February. The game was Arkansas State vs. Memphis. ESPN carried it.
I was having a fine time watching a reasonably well played and closely contested game. But then, in the second quarter, the announcing team — Bob Wischusen and Dan Orlovsky — suddenly turned away from football to racial politics.
The two began by saying how wonderful it is that college football players have become politically engaged. They commended the youngsters for trying to change America for the better.
After too much of this, Wischusen and Orlovsky confessed, more or less to their white privilege.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mushroom 9/8/2020 4:41:23 AM (No. 534436)
I disagree with the author slightly. I don't agree the announcers have the right to riff on politics during a 'game'. They have no free speech during their employer's time that,in directly *we* as individuals are paying. Every household with any type of cable.sat/streaming package pays for ESPN to spew this political garbage and I for one am sick of it. I cut my cable two years ago, I cut everything I could streaming, yet ESPN and CNN still get a cut from ATT. this has to go. I realize this is two topics rolled into one, but didn't ESPN learn the last time why people cut the cable?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/8/2020 5:12:54 AM (No. 534440)
Why don't they stop calling them football teams and start calling them 'youth sports collectives' for that truly Soviet feel?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 9/8/2020 5:41:49 AM (No. 534444)
I guess after college football and the NFL run off conservatives they can do things their way. The players can pick their gender and wear dresses if they like. I guess, depending on the quarterback, the center will be wearing a miniskirt to enable easier ball handling.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/8/2020 5:56:10 AM (No. 534453)
Who really givesa damn about college football. Those on the college team become NFL idiots and destroy the game bringing their politics in and shoving it down everyone's throat. The game is dead or it is close to dead. People want to watch sports to get away from the political crap that is happening. But instead these clowns want to make a statement and put it right in our face.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/8/2020 6:41:39 AM (No. 534466)
Gladiators eventually learn to please their audiences. That's why they introduced lions into the ring.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TNVolunteer 9/8/2020 6:53:31 AM (No. 534472)
i tried to watch this game as well. The two commentators went on the PC dialogue and I had to turn it off. Thanks ESPN for ruining the return of college football and making it unwatchable. I hope the SEC network doesn't fall for this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rytwng 9/8/2020 7:34:13 AM (No. 534501)
This is going to backfire. Most people are tired of hearing this crap.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MattMusson 9/8/2020 7:45:04 AM (No. 534511)
Rush Limbaugh has said for years that the Left wants to spoil football for the rest of us.
So, they are filling it with politics to do just that. This is not about changing the game.
This is about ending it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 9/8/2020 7:52:02 AM (No. 534518)
Was Mr. Mirengoff in my living room Saturday night when my wife and I were having this same conversation? When I heard the jock sniffing announcer claim his generation failed the civil rights questions facing our nation I wondered which planet he lived on.
I was so disgusted I turned the game off and will add college football to the list of programming I will no longer watch. College football was the last sport I did follow. I also found myself asking why I thought watching ESPN was going to be ok.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/8/2020 7:52:53 AM (No. 534519)
Let them all die out.
Tom Seever's contract of $100,000/year salary set off all sorts of warning bells for me. Back then, sports stars at least treated their fans with respect.
Since then, there have been few stars that caught my attention in a good way. Maybe an even dozen, none of them currently playing.
I haven't been to a game in person in decades. I haven't watched on TV for at least 10 years, and cut the cable soon after. None of the programming interests me, anymore - I think NCIS was the last show I regularly watched.
All the media virtue signals these days, and I'm tired of it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/8/2020 8:00:31 AM (No. 534525)
College sports used to be simply about kids on the verge of adulthood, plying their hearts out. This made it special.
But they've ruined that too, with their promotions and backroom dealing for professional talent prospects and the way colleges act as well. How many of these kids are actually getting a good education?
Probably 1 in a thousand. The rest have people hired to take their tests, to allow them to train and promote the brand. The colleges themselves censor speech they don't like, and claim that's freedom!
Anything liberals manage to gain control of dies a slow, agonizing and shameful death.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
tootall 9/8/2020 8:01:07 AM (No. 534527)
I turn the volume off. I really hope advertisers read this. Its another case of the MSM skewing the numbers. If people are not listening they're not being programmed to buy stuff! Lincoln Financial, Fidelity, and Viagra are not getting the ears tuned in to what they're paying for!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/8/2020 8:07:14 AM (No. 534532)
The only people who I would seek out for the value of their input less than those who gain notoriety and visibility as entertainers by playing a game, are people who gain notoriety and visibility by talking about people who play games.
I care more about what the janitor thinks. I have much more in common with and am more similarly impacted by policy as the janitor.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 9/8/2020 8:09:30 AM (No. 534535)
There was a game on? Who knew?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/8/2020 8:31:17 AM (No. 534559)
They will and they did. ESPN is on the way to the dust bin.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Yuban 9/8/2020 8:31:27 AM (No. 534561)
Why on earth would anyone think ESPN would stick to sports?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 9/8/2020 8:34:28 AM (No. 534566)
Kill football and you’ve killed America..
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/8/2020 8:37:44 AM (No. 534572)
I'm with #4. Most college players are there on a full tuition ride at the expense of real students and take four years of basket weaving and "studies" classes so that two percent of them can join the pros and the other 98% can enter careers selling cars or becoming baristas. In the long run they do nothing for society once their glory years are over and merely take up space in the classrooms for four or five years. They do throw some good beer parties though.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Avikingman 9/8/2020 9:04:17 AM (No. 534593)
Yes they will, and have.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/8/2020 9:06:20 AM (No. 534597)
We’re now recording sports events and allowing a half hour at the beginning when we start watching. Gives us some room to fast forward through commercials and politics and blather.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/8/2020 9:38:43 AM (No. 534631)
i watched the golf yesterday, and the sponsors of the event, Southern Company -not sure what they do, and Coca cola Company - they sell sugar water - both did some virtue signaling. But I ignored them.
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After all the nonsense over the past 6 months I was hoping - really hoping - to be able to enjoy college ball in its pure form. Apparently not. Joe Burrow (now a pro, so it's to be expected) was one of the first to tweet in support of black lies.back in the spring. But now even Trevor Lawrence feels compelled to get on the podium so I'm done with Clemson (and Herbstreit's kids). As one poster pointed out above, maybe - just maybe - the SEC and its network will spare us the politics.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/8/2020 9:41:27 AM (No. 534634)
Nothing gets said on ESPN without a producer sitting there listening to it. Nothing. The producer can immediately stop it if it goes against ESPN policy. He's constantly talking to the talent. And if the producer doesn't catch it, someone in Bristol will, and then the producer gets called.
In this case the two announcers weren't even in Memphis. They were in the studio at ESPN's HQ. in Bristol CT. The no politics policy is a smokescreen. What these sportscasters say is ESPN policy or they wouldn't be saying it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/8/2020 9:41:44 AM (No. 534635)
When are all of these social justice seeking announcers and hosts going to quit their phony baloney jobs so that repressed minorities can have "meaningful" work?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
AltaD 9/8/2020 9:42:27 AM (No. 534636)
Back when we still watched sports, I'd turn the volume down to the point where I couldn't make out what the announcers were saying but could still hear a bit of the crowd noise. Too many announcers act as if the viewers are tuning in for them rather than the game. I no longer have cable and don't watch the few games on free tv but I can imagine how horrid the blm-blather will be.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Synicle 9/8/2020 9:47:29 AM (No. 534643)
My TV has a volume control
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MaxWedge 9/8/2020 10:16:28 AM (No. 534662)
I wonder what it would take to start some new professional leagues? No politics, salary caps, etc.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
edgar 9/8/2020 10:17:09 AM (No. 534663)
ESPN (like any lefty) ruins everything it touches. I thought I would tune into the US Tennis Open. What a mistake. It happened that an American, Francis Tiafoe was playing. John McEnroe went off on what a talent he is and how sad it was that people were not in the stands to cheer this man on, as racial equality is such an issue in US and this black man should hear the cheers. He went on to say Tiafoe has Top 8 talent (he is unranked as far as I know) and based on the box score he was wiped up pretty quickly by a true Top 8 talent in straight sets. My viewership lasted less than a minute. If you like your sports with SJW commentary, you can have it.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
CactusStar 9/8/2020 11:17:35 AM (No. 534731)
Why don't these white announcers just give up their jobs to black men?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
gramma b 9/8/2020 11:35:37 AM (No. 534750)
We turned the sound off on BYU v Navy and synced up the picture with the play by play on local radio, KSL. Problem solved.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
JimJr 9/8/2020 1:44:28 PM (No. 534907)
ESPN kept rolling the scroll about Eastern Kentucky's SJ pre-game t-shirts and helmet texts. Marshall came to play football, beat them 59-0.
Go woke, Get stomped.
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