It will be interesting to see where it all ends.
I heard today that Fox is looking to drop Thursday night football due to lower ratings and there is also talk that all the networks are looking to renegotiate in the face of declining viewer numbers. Traditional media outlets were all facing major change before the Woke tidal wave hit and now they are really scrambling.
ESPN is cutting hundreds of jobs as parent company Disney suddenly becomes aware that these types of politics will effect all of their business interests.
Nobody wants these woke lectures (and that includes colored people who are just as sick of this junk) when they watch a game but you can't tell that to a bunch of college girls with blue hair who throw bricks through windows.
But just as sponsors wanted nothing to do with supposedly "racist" team names they will eventually find that they want nothing to do with the "wokesters" who are literally dividing society in two and driving people away. Somewhere, Lincoln must be shaking his head in dismay.
There were innocent times where watching an NFL, CFL, College game united the nations, states, they served as commonality. A time where nothing would evoke US success more than seeing two College programs go at it on the gridiron. That ended up being the talk of a nation.
Its sad that its come to this where pro sports have been coopted to further division. I mean I know that isn't the intent, but its whats occurring. The people tuning out just never wanted the politics interjected onto the games. Resent foments about the one count on escape in peoples lives, that one came to associate with holidays, special times of year, with relaxation, is made political, and the innocent enjoyment yanked away.
Its a transformation that probably shouldn't happen in sporting entertainment, and especially high priced sports.
I mean what is more mind numbing than the rich bucks exclusive world of the NFL where people could mortage a house to afford a Superbowl ticket, for that league to have license speaking of the marginalized? What tripe.