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Post by fantom on Jul 26, 2018 10:37:32 GMT -6
So what more do we know of this shadowy canal of football-haters with a lot of money and a long-term vision? Who’s in charge? What’s the big plan? How do they benefit? Aw hell, I'll play. Soccer. ESPN has a deal with soccer that costs them a lot less than football and can make them tons of money if soccer gets big in the U.S. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 26, 2018 10:58:51 GMT -6
Because they're sadists who dislike it when other people have fun? nothing to do with kids imo. But the explanation for this is opinion and opinion I am not interested in defending or explaining. Well, yeah, but it's a serious Q on my part. It does seem that hx & our present are full of examples of the prohibition of activities in part or mostly because they're enjoyable to some -- or even most -- people. Like for instance, it's found that smoking is unhealthful; so then they take the smoke out of it by inventing vaping, & then they want to ban that. Because some people are just sadists, enjoying making other people less happy, & some people are selective sadists, enjoying it when certain groups of people are deprived of pleasure. It might be that way w sports.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 26, 2018 11:11:57 GMT -6
Is it ten years or never then? that research and those studies are not coming to level that make it accepted fact. There have been products that stopped being marketed just on a scare that was never proven, but that's because there was never much $ in those products and/or there were close substitutes. An example would be silicone breast implants, which were much later proven harmless, and there are other products people have been scared off of that we may never know the real harmfulness of because they're not worth enough to find out. Neither is the case w big-time spectator football.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 26, 2018 11:17:31 GMT -6
So what more do we know of this shadowy canal of football-haters with a lot of money and a long-term vision? Who’s in charge? What’s the big plan? How do they benefit? Aw hell, I'll play. Soccer. ESPN has a deal with soccer that costs them a lot less than football and can make them tons of money if soccer gets big in the U.S. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Plausible if it doesn't wind up taking down soccer too. Or it could be culture war, where some people just want to stick it to those people who enjoy football. Same as it largely was with liquor, marijuana, gambling, even fur. (Remember the fad some decades back of people splashing paint on others wearing fur in public?)
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 26, 2018 11:24:08 GMT -6
There have been products that stopped being marketed just on a scare that was never proven, but that's because there was never much $ in those products and/or there were close substitutes. An example would be silicone breast implants, which were much later proven harmless, and there are other products people have been scared off of that we may never know the real harmfulness of because they're not worth enough to find out. Neither is the case w big-time spectator football. Again, you assume the is actually safety...I contend safety is just a Trojan horse. True, the culture war could be more powerful. If they were able to prohibit liquor in the USA -- & several other countries -- for a good number of years, then theoretically on the same basis they could do that to big-$ football or soccer. Liquor was very popular worldwide, had lots of $ behind it, but still lost out for a while against highly motivated opposing forces. But eventually came back except in some Moslem countries.
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