Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 20, 2022

Sometimes our wishy is a little washy!

Arlo and I agree on the fundamentals but I will watch any game any time for the love of the game. My wife, on the other hand, is the one always threatening the boycott.

I left a couple of years ago. Haven’t looked back. Don’t even check the scores.

Someone once asked me which I liked better, the Packers or the Bears. I told him I didn’t know very much about baseball. Which sums up how I feel about all of it

Oh, the days of the bowls, and a national discussion of who was really the best of the best. Now it’s just another sector of the economy, and like the general economy, it’s concentrating the spoils at the top. Bah.

Arlo is going to boycott greed by watching old football games on cable TV? That’s like boycotting mediocre pizza by eating at Papa Johns.

Are they talking college or pro? My guess is college.

The Big 10 now has 16 teams, including UCLA and USC (as of next season). What?! They just signed a $7 billion 7 year deal for tv rights. Are you [bleeping] kidding me?! And the SEC will include Texas and Oklahoma in 2025. Ugh!!

Universities have become nothing more than sports teams with an education side hustle.

This has pretty much killed any interest I have in college sports.

Teams used to be made up of players from that school or city, which made it interesting. Local pride. Then it changed and just became whoever bought the best players wins. The worst case scenario is when half the players on the other team are from your state/city.

The dismantling of tradition is even worse in baseball.

I gave up on major sports of any kind more than 15 years ago. Nothing in sports has any meaningful relevance.

The greed is the tradition.

Who said, “American football is a bunch of big sissies in too much padding using their hands on the ball.”

Team sports are boring. But golf is worse.

Janis, football season, at least the pre-season, started last week

There’s a joke out there about the Mega Corporate Sports Based Entertainment Venue and the rabid fan who hated corporations. Now if I could just remember the punch line…

I’m a Packers fan because they are actually owned by the people in Green Bay. I do enjoy it when they beat up on some 1%ers paid crew, which doesn’t have anything to do with the town it is supposed to represent and can be moved to another at the whim of the 1%er. Of course, he could never go back to Dallas without being lynched, but that’s not the same thing.

I have lost most of my interest in sports over the last few years, so I didn’t even know until a few days ago that Albert Pujols was back with the St. Louis Cardinals and is going to eventually join “The 700 Club” as a member of the team he came up with, which has sparked some interest in me…

Next year for sure!

Personally, I find the concept of organized sports distasteful. I would rather just hand out and have fun doing sport activities.

greed and mocking tradition were bad enough, but it was the militarism that made me leave

I turn my back on the pros also after 60 years. Still watch college though….

Hedge fund mobsters have been buying up sports teams and off shoring $$$ with shell companies and screwing the worker globally a looooong time…

If you boycott greed you would have to stop buying everything.

Every player will end up with brain damage. I will have nothing to do with it.

Sports and greed not really. Players are in the entertainment business and like actors they want to get paid the best that the market will bear. Sports fans are like movie goers they pay the price of the ticket to watch the show.

I’m just waiting for people to stop acting like Kapernick will return to football. You can have your opinion on his effectiveness on the field. But, he hasn’t played in 6-seasons, despite numerous opportunities. And none of his workouts have led to any time calling his agent.

The only sports I watch now is when my grandkids teams play.

Dropped it at least twenty years ago, no interest in ever watching it again.

They lost me when they started taking a knee.

Never do today what you can put off until next week.

Interesting (encouraging, actually) to see how many people commenting here about how they don’t care for football. I always seem to be in the minority when I talk about my dislike of the game. I just think it’s incredibly boring. Soccer is much more interesting, faster paced, and more athletic.

I have lost ALL interest in my Browns this year since they hired a sexual predator for a quarterback (when they already had a very capable QB already) and now are going to be paying him millions of dollars to sit out the season because the NFL pointed out to them that, “Well, he’s a sexual predator.” Every Browns fan who is female or has a wife/girlfriend should be appalled.

I am so glad I am not addicted to sports.

Why does Janis look seven feet tall in P1?

Haven’t watched an NFL game in years.

Living in central Pennsylvania is enhanced at this timme of the year by LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES! So far they’re resisting commercialization to a greater extent than in other realms of sport, thank goodness!

Personally, I have no issues with anyone who watches, or doesn’t watch sports… it’s a personal choice. I choose not to, because my issue covers most sports, where someone makes more in a year, playing a game, than I have, even after having worked almost 60 years, and, even 2 jobs for 30+ years of that time.

I like the Olympics. That is about it.

NFL Exhibition games,started last week.

See: Andy Capp

Yeah, I can’t boycott them when I lost interest in sports years ago.

Husband has never been interested in sports – live, TV or participating. His dad made him join little league. His big remark on same is the coach yelling at him when he was playing and in the field “Johnson!! Get the mitt away from your face!” The mitt covering his face to protect it.

Though he does enjoy firing a gun at the range and one time we did play on a 9 hole course a round of golf – and somehow lost one of the holes along the way…

Yes, that’s why I don’t watch football. Not because it’s boring and overrated

Haven’t watche football(pro, or, college) since ‘70s Steelers. Don’watch it, don’t care about it, and only get irritated about all the advertisements. And, I definitely don’t miss it!!!!