Yeah I'm usually pretty willing to accept that athletes often have poor social and political opinions and concern myself only with on-ice performance, but I have no interest in DeAngelo because of his views. I would find it hard to root for him.
At the risk of offending a fellow FSM parishioner: I hope Stevie doesn't name you (or anyone else who would base personnel decisions on political litmus tests) as Assistant to the Assistant GM.
And not just for the sake of the team, but for the sake of the sport, for the sake of sports generally, and for the sake of society.
The NBA has political slogans painted on their floors and stitched on their backs, and their viewership is half what it was for last year's finals. And that has nothing to do with COVID -- viewership should be up, since more people are stuck at home. NBA's game 1 lost to
The Masked Singer.
About the only thing actually useful about professional spectator sports is the way that it brings together a broad swath of society -- rich and poor, black and white, conservative and progressive -- to shout in unison "you suck" when the refs blow a call. It's the one time we're all on the same side. Or at least that's how things once worked -- before one side decided Balkanization of society would be a good thing.
They might want to check and see how that worked for the Balkans before continuing much further down that road.
