Sumbitch deserved to die

[supergee]

John Scalzi says college football is doomed. *Cue Tard the Cat saying “Good”* It’ll probably kill pro football too, but I guess I can live with that.

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[arlie]

It is amusing that he attributes "liking to watch football" and "refusing to wear masks and/or to make them mandatory, particularly for reasons of freedom" as being associated with the same people. That makes emotional sense to me, as a nerd.

But I wonder whether it's actually true, or whether Scalzi's just having the same nerdish knee jerk I do, only writ larger.

My observation is that a lot of people are into watching spectator sports, including college sports, and rooting for their favourite teams, and I've never noticed a political divide in this hobby. There was a traffic-jam-causing stadium/arena built inconveniently close to me with tax payer money sometime in the past decade, and I live in a state so blue that they've decided to have a single primary for all parties, and run two Democrats in the eventual election if (when) those are the two top vote collectors in the primary.

I had to Google to find out which sports are comonly played in that stadium - I'm as far from a sports fan as you can get (!) - but while the stadium is in fact used for multiple purposes, not all of them being sports, it turns out to have been built for football (according to wikipedia).

I repeat - this is a very blue state, and our local area appears to be much much better than the US average for people paying attention to covid-19 risks. But we built a football stadium which opened in 2014 with subsidies from our tax payers. (I've boycotted the brand that bought its naming rights ever since; to me, they now stand first and foremost for traffic tieups, secondarily for broken glass, urine, and other leftovers in any parking area in a too large radius.)

I'm happy not to have either the traffic tie-ups or the disgusting leftovers, and if they don't come back post-covid I'll be happy to celebrate. But I just don't think this is about major US politcal divisions.