Subj : Re: NFL
To   : Arelor
From : Moondog
Date : Tue Sep 29 2020 01:05 am

  Re: Re: NFL
  By: Arelor to Gamgee on Mon Sep 28 2020 10:02 am

 >   Re: Re: NFL
 >   By: Gamgee to Arelor on Mon Sep 28 2020 07:44 am
 > 
 >  > -=> Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
 >  >
 >  >  > I gave up on that shit-show about 4 years ago when the whole
 >  >  > Kapernick bullshit started.  Don't miss it a bit.
 >  >
 >  >  Ar> haha, do you care to explain what that was about, for those who
 >  >  Ar> are not in the US?
 >  >
 >  > Kapernick started the whole thing about kneeling during the
 >  > playing of the national anthem before games, as some sort of
 >  > "protest" against unfair treatment of black people.  Many people
 >  > found (and still do) that to be disrespectful, and a lot of folks
 >  > gave up on the NFL (and basketball/NBA, and to some extent
 >  > baseball/MLB) because of it.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > ... All the easy problems have been solved.
 > 
 > Ah, I see.
 > 
 > I see you have a bigger number of powerful leagues over there. Here in Spain
 > only soccer makes money... everything else does not really pull its weight.
 > 
 > My father asked me what the biggest sport was over there and I told him I
 > believed it to be baseball, but I don't know how accurate my estimation was 
 > 
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 > 

Baseball is considered the national favorite, however I think there's way more
 money behind pro football.  Baseball has a simpler, more laid back
appearance, so when there is any controversy with the team owners or players,
people tend to turn away from it for awhile.  It has it's ups and downs, but
there is always a dediciated group of followers that love it regardless what
happens.  My grandparents on my father's side lived in Bayside, NY up until
the 1950's and my grandfather worked for the NYPD in NYC.  My grandmother's
brother in law used to socialize at a club where the NY Yankees would go, and
knew Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.  One of my father's cousins told me their
uncle bought a baseball glove for Gehrig, and he used it for awhile.

My grandmother was a Cubs fan, and her sister and brother in law were die
hard Yankees fans.

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