Bill Maher- football and baseball - classic (5:03)

[underpants]

Run time: 05:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_FsMCWaN9Y   Posted on YouTube: January 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: daingoding Views on YouTube: 266   Posted on DU: January 29, 2011 By DU Member: underpants Views on DU: 2975

 

[greenman3610]

1. this is a classic indeed

[pacalo]

2. A transcript of this would be the perfect reply for those who might get those

"socialism" forwards from their need-to-be-enlightened right-wing friends/relatives.

Good for Facebook users, too.

[K8-EEE]

3. LOL, My husband was all furious @ Bill re: this

He always looks forward to New Rules and he's like....WTF is he talking about?

He thought Bill got it wrong, I don't know enough about sports to really weigh in.

Something about the NFL is so fascist and he hates them b/c they are going to be responsible for Buffalo Bills (he grew up there) moving to another market even though they are super popular in Buffalo and they are prohibiting the city buying the team, it has to be a corporation buying it? So Buffalo is going to lost their team to corporate sponsorship in another market and yada yada.

I tuned out after awhile, LOL just wanted to say Bill didn't exactly hit his usual home run here last night!

[underpants]

4. I really can't imagine Buffalo without a team

incredibly loyal fans in a bit of enclave of football...but... it appears that the only thing keeping them in town is the old man who owns the team and his is not long for this world.

The conventional wisdom is that either Buffalo or Jacksonville will move to L.A. but I really can't imagine the Bills leaving upstate NY. That would be a brutal bloody nose to all fans of the NFL.

Politically the NFL tends on the Dem side, baseball (don't want to pay taxes on inflated incomes) is played by suburban white kids from the machinery and islanders (Dominicans), golf is flat out Repub land, Basketball is Dem world other than Coach K at Duke, soccer-football has loyalties based on politics (read Franklin Foer's "How soccer explains the world" - he is a DLC globalist but it is a good read).

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. Sadly football is trying to go the way of baseball

There are factions in the NFL ownership (the ones in big markets like New York and the ones that sell lots of merchandise like Dallas) that want to do away with the revenue sharing & salary cap that keep the teams on a level playing field. The reason Buffalo and Jacksonville may lose their franchises is precisely because there is no big money in those cities. Nobody to buy the expensive skyboxes. No corporations to buy blocks of season tickets. You just can't charge $80 a pop for nosebleed seats in the end zone and expect people who make $30K a year to go to the games- and ticket sales are the one piece of the revenue pie that doesn't go into the "big commie pot"

On another subject, I've seen Bill Mahr on before, but this one goes in the Hall of Fame.

[wisteria]

5. I hate football, and don't give a damn that my home team is in the superbowl.

I like baseball, but not enough to go out of my way to pay for or watch a game. But, I understand entirely what Maher is saying. +++++

[Populist_Prole]

7. I feel the exact same way.

Can't wait for all the hype and BS to subside, same as well for all the shallow lunkheads that try to engage me in conversation about "the game" or "Go Panthers!". Makes me dry heave.

Bread & circuses

[MrMickeysMom]

8. But, maybe he should also know...

... Pittsbughers also attend Pirate games after May, I'm sure. :-)

[swilton]

10. Superbowl?

I don't even know who's playing.

[axollot]

11. That makes 2 of us! n/t

[underpants]

9. OTHER LINK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hjE8Y9xbk

[mrfrapp]

12. Now I feel guilty

Now I feel guilty for liking baseball.

Great clip.

[Yavin4]

13. If You Want A System That Exploits Its Labor, the NFL is for You

I prefer a system where the players have a say in how in they are paid and treated. Give me MLB any day where the players' union is strong unlike the NFL's union which is weak. That's why so many former NFL players have severe health issues as they age.

Google Mike Webster of the Steelers, and then come back and tell me how great the NFL is.

[decidedlyso]

14. Stopped watching all sports after the first baseball strike. Don't even

know who they're talking about when they mention current players.