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As Sports Media Cheers On Athlete Boycotts, Fans Will Walk Away

by Ben Domenech

 

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It is sometimes underappreciated how new professional sports is as a dominant cultural phenomenon. For the vast majority of human history, sports has been overwhelmingly played by amateurs. And even in America, it is only in the past fifty years that this professionalized version of sport became a route to wealth. Baseball, which has the longest professional sports history in the United States, illustrates this: the average MLB salary is up an inflation-adjusted 3,000 percent since the late 1960s. Professional sports only became big money in the era of television, as a form of mass entertainment

 

 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

"tolerant left"
 



 


I would like to know how a megaphone in someone's ear is not physical harm?
 


 

  I saw the same thing at Cornell many years ago.  Many of the people at my student residence prided themselves in being very tolerant but that stopped at the gay guy who was living there.  

4 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

  Jim Gaffigan aka gaff again?  I did not know that he was still around or that anybody bestowed celebrity status on him in 2020.

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1 hour ago, RochesterRob said:

  I saw the same thing at Cornell many years ago.  Many of the people at my student residence prided themselves in being very tolerant but that stopped at the gay guy who was living there.  

  Jim Gaffigan aka gaff again?  I did not know that he was still around or that anybody bestowed celebrity status on him in 2020.

 

His 15 minutes were up about 5 years ago.  I liked him back then, now he's a shell of his former self.

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