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| Angel92 | Jul 27 2017, 09:37 PM Post #1 |
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It’s good to have an opinion, a point of view, a side you’ve arrived at thoughtfully. Instead, “takes,” or even worse, “hot takes,” have http://www.officialvikingshop.com/shop-by-players-chuck-foreman-jersey-c-2_35.html invaded the sports landscape . Once you had ESPN’s “The Sports Reporters,” a roundtable of big city, big paper columnistswho’d seen it all offering wisdom and an experienced and very frequently accurate reading between the lines (and pictures). Now, you have the horrid “First Take,” Fox’s awful copycat “Undisputed,” the ridiculous “SportsNation” and the overly unserious “Around the Horn.” It turns out there are ratings in passion and too little intelligence among viewers to realize how contrived and false the purveyors of it are. Consider it the worst kind of televangelism coming to sports. Once you had Jim and Tammy and Paul and Jan, now you have the bloviation of Stephen A. Smith and sidekick Max Kellerman, old Bronco tight end Shannon Sharpe and the absolute king of false and farcical sports seriousness, Skip Bayless. By association, they give actual thoughtful discourse and meaningful positions a bad name. Nonetheless, here are a few. • The Masters is the third most important golf tournament in the world. Yeah, that’s right, third. Behind the Open Championship and the U.S. Open. You could even make a case The Players Championship is actually quite similar to the Masters — fantastic field, played at the same course every year, huge reward for the winner — just without its tortured history with race and privilege. Because of the micro-management of Augusta National and the willing collusion of CBS, the masses have come to believe the course Bobby http://www.officialvikingssale.com/shop-by-players-rhett-ellison-jersey-c-2_30.html Jones built to be the truest measure of a golfer the same way people believe diamonds to be exceedingly rare. They’re not, nor is the Masters the most meaningful 72 holes of golf. • Once ESPN made sports bigger, now it makes them smaller, and it has nothing to do with all its opinion shows. Remember Australian Rules football, Davis Cup Tennis, Canadian Football and Hartford Whaler hockey games? Once, they were all ESPN staples because the network couldn’t afford the rights fees the networks were paying. And guess what, viewers loved it. Loved it so much — as well as an end of the night SportsCenter that allowed everybody to stay up to date with everything — that eventually ESPN could afford the rights fees and now has basically replaced network sports. And in the wake of the outlier becoming the behemoth, all charm has been lost. Now we get more NFL than we know what to do with, more NBA than we can digest, more college football than we thought imaginable and less of everything else. The Olympics, for instance, once meant everything. Now they feel quaint. The grandeur of so many great things — horse racing, boxing, track and field, tennis, open-wheel racing, even baseball — has been lost. • Dallas’ best quarterback was Roger Staubach, not Troy Aikman and not Tony Romo. Sometimes, it’s not entirely about stats and championships, but what everybody saw with their own eyes. Aikman played for a machine, Staubach was death-defying by comparison. Place them on each other’s teams and who gets better and who doesn’t? The 70s Cowboys get worse and the 90s Cowboys do not. • It’s all about the money. Not a little about the money, but all about it. The college facilities arms race, conference L.P. Ladouceur Womens Jersey realignment, lowest-common-denominator sports programming, player movement in major team sports, the names of the stadiums in which we watch the games, the uniforms athletes wear. |
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