No doubt. My father falls asleep during the games, then listens to the sports talk shows during the day time and then tries to tell me about what went wrong in the game. Lol it’s painful. Very painful. Just repeating the talking heads over and over. God Bless him but he falls for that shit every time. Has for decades. It really is the View for men.
Yeah, I have a hard time listening to any type show where people are calling in. I start thinking, “finish your dam thought. Articulate it.” As they hem and haw and struggle explaining their position or framing their question. It’s fairly easy to see where most peope are totally out of it, on many topics.
There’s controversial, I don’t love it but whatever.
But then there’s flat out wrong, like Stephen A. Smith saying ‘maybe this will be the year France finally wins the world cup,’ or McAfee saying Goff moved to 7-0 in games in which he threw 4+ interceptions after we came back to beat Houston a couple of years ago. At that point he moved to 1-1.
The world has just widely accepted that it’s OK for them to spout made-up stuff. That’s what really gets me.
That reason is that we as a society have lost interest in reading anything complex or nuanced while gorging on visual media and tweets. Quick wins, slamdunks in your face, and performative outrage get attention like freeway pileups.
The Age Of Reading Is Over is the cover article in the August edtion of The Atlantic. I read it yesterday, so I’m parroting one of their complex and nuanced talking points today. So there.
Edit: Proof that I’m not AI is that I originally typed Reason, when it should have been Reading.
Was funny, he was telling Peter Schrager his opinion was less valid bc he didn’t play football… But there’s a clip recirculating since he was fired from 2020 where Pat McAfee called Clark out to his face. Pat said he was more of a football player than Clark bc PM has ran the ball, thrown the ball, caught the ball, scored a TD, tackled while Clark had only tackled