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Why Does the Left Hate Football?

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The progressive left seems to have started a crusade to abolish football. Check out the new cover from that news pamphlet you sometimes see in the doctor’s office.  And this comes after the left-wing media’s long crusade against the name of the Washington Redskins (if your outrage meter doesn’t peg 11 on the “Redskins” name, that means you’re a racist) and more attacking the NFL as a culture that encourages domestic violence. (Curiously, despite a whole lot of domestic violence in the Entertainment industry, there is no leftist crusade against “Hollywood Culture.)

I have been wondering why the left hates football. I have a few theories.

  • Football is a quintessentially American sport beloved by real Americans; and so it must be taken away to punish middle America for not being sufficiently progressive.
  • The typical leftist is an emotional and intellectual adolescent who never matured beyond high school and still associates football with the popular kids.
  • It is part of the overall leftist agenda to feminize and sissify the USA by stigmatizing all things tough and masculine.

What are your theories?

 

Comments

  2. I believe it’s the easiest mark for Libs & similar scum, during a tough time, in order to rally political correctness against what is, in essence, a faux violent sport.
    It’s risky for them, to attack a sport that stars so many blacks. It’s bound to fail, they know it but continue nevertheless just to keep talking about an “issue”, to distract from Obama’s economy, his performance, Democrat scandals & an ideology which they know doesn’t stack up against commonsense reality.

  3. A 13week travel contract to work in a sports medicine clinic is all it would take to cure anyone of watching pro sports. You can actually tell what type of Performance Enhancing Drugs they use by the injury history. No one refrigerator Perry’s size or bigger is natural.

    I think it is still leftover hate from before the NFL changed the game to allow black quarterbacks to be viable. The need for a white quarterback caused them a lot of cognitive dissonance.

  7. I think you nailed it on your first bullet point: “Football is a quintessentially American sport beloved by real Americans

    After all, remember the young man in San Francisco holding up the sign: “fuck Middle America”

    That is very much the attitude of so many on the left.

    Oh, and further, to them there is only one “proper” football which is what we, Americans, call soccer.

  11. As JP said, score is kept and there are winners and losers. This works because football is a meritocracy – you get to play / cheer / coach / whatever only if you are very, very good at it. Normally liberals love the idea of meritocracies because they think that they’re better than everyone else and will therefore get to call all the shots, but none of them can actually play football (or cheer, or coach, or whatever) so a meritocracy in which they can have no part just burns them up.

  12. You’re all wrong.

    Football is one of the last bastions of maleness left in 21st century American culture, and liberals don’t like that. They want to emasculate everything they can. Hence, the attack on football, fraternities, and similar activities of male bonding and male spaces.

  15. Football is a big, scary dangerous sport therefore it is bad because all good liberals believe big, scary and dangerous should be banned.

    I do think there is a bit of a push against football because of the violence. I suspect liberal women are the ones most likely hammering the antifootball nail. Junior should be wrapped in bubble wrap and protected from all big scary things.

  16. All of the above!
    – It’s objective.
    – It’s win-lose.
    – It’s masculine and physically tough.
    – It’s the game of the popular guys in high school.
    – It’s quintessentially American.
    – As a difficult and somewhat dangerous sport, it cultivates personal responsibility. (Even if that virtue often isn’t practiced.)
    – It glorifies the guys with good eye-hand co-ordination. (another thing that lefty hipster nerds tend to lack)

    A few more:
    – It’s middle class, i.e., “bourgeois”.
    – Women only have the role of cheerleaders.
    – It glorifies pretty women.

  21. Speaking of weak, docile male feminists, you guys should take a look at Charles Clymer’s Tweets on Twitter. He’s the prime example of the weak, docile male that Tommy is referring to.

    Twitter: @cmclymer