I had to google Stephen A. Smith to find out who he is.
I might not be very representative of white people generally, however.
1. Me, too. I never watch ESPN, which may explain it. Apparently his show is a morning show? If I listen to sports talk in the morning, it's local idiots, not national ones.
This was a funny post, totally lost on you weirdos. Stephen A. Smith is a person, or persona, who is ubiquitous on ESPN, and plays up the swaggering, in-your-face black man. He's the TV equivalent of getting hate clicks. AND HE COST US THE ELECTION!
Know your audience, man. Your jock jokes are powerless against us.
I watched a bit of a YouTube compilation and I disagree that he checks off an unusual number of stereotype boxes, other than being audibly black, loud, and opinionated.
I've watched a lot of ESPN, recently enough to know who Smith is immediately, but aside from his voice being loud (like a lot of sports talk), he doesn't really stand out.
You people! It's like explaining Quidditch to Martians around here! Nobody cares what you think!
Annoying, sure. What you posited was that he's annoying in ways that specifically activate racism.
10: "More annoying than Skip Bayless" doesn't seem like a thing it's possible to be.
13: More generally, "most annoying sports talk guy" = "biggest infinity."
I know this post is a joke, but I would guess that there's a core of enraged white people who are unhappy that the NBA seems to be much more tolerant and progressive than the NFL.
If they even care anymore. The NBA is a black league, the NFL is a white league, to put it simply. The fans who would be bothered have mostly moved on to hockey.
(Popovich's description of Trump as a "soulless coward" seems the best two-word description of the guy.)
the NFL is a white league
Do you mean the owners, players, or audience? Owners: mostly white, players: mostly black and increasingly even in the "prestige" slots like QB, audience: cite? I did see a stat recently that showed that the TV sports audiences are aging faster than the population, but there wasn't racial demographic data. (On 538, perhaps?)
Is Skip Bayless the one who (with Shannon Sharpe) has a show where they spend the whole time arguing with each other? He certainly seems annoying the few times I haven't remembered to turn the sound down during promos (e.g.; last night's Bills-Pats game).
In fact, all the NFL bunch-o'-retired-jocks shows seem to be mostly annoying, interrupting, talk-over-each-other loud guys, both black and white. Equality!
The NFL is not a white league, it's popular with all types of Americans, demographically.
I do think it's popular with the conservative subsets of all types of Americans. The military-like hierarchy and glorification of tough guys and yelling coaches. You find a black celebrity who wants to run for office as a Republican, there's a good chance he's a former football player.
Of course by "white" I meant "conservative asshole."
In Barnes & Noble yesterday there was a prominently displayed book with a title that went something like Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left is Ruining Sports. The advertising on the front covere read "Banned from CNN and ESPN".
I got your joke, ogged. You can trust me. I'm not like the others.
Is Stephen A. Smith that ubiquitous, though? I find it implausible. Though Skip Bayless is directly responsible for Black Lives Matter, so maybe I underestimate him.
Skip Bayless shot all those dudes, pass it on.
Ogged is wrong, the NFL fandom does not yet skew all that conservative. Maybe you're confusing it with *college* football? That's the sport for racists. NFL players get paid. Actual data here.
The datapoints that surprise me: Why do European soccer fans not vote? It's weird that LPGA is close to PGA instead of to all other women's sports? How can UFC skew liberal?
Also it's kinda awesome that the WNBA basically has to make them change their scale by a factor of two. Sometimes I think I should try to become a WNBA fan.
All I can think of:
Why do European soccer fans not vote?
Because they're disproportionately young? And non-white
It's weird that LPGA is close to PGA instead of to all other women's sports?
Because they're disproportionately old? And white
How can UFC skew liberal?
Because they're disproportionately young? And non-white
That seems to be a market research database, so it could include a lot of non-citizens. In which case presumably more for MLS, and still more for European soccer.
My conclusion is that we need to get wrestling fans to vote. Too bad the McMahons hold so much sway, but that's becoming less so as alternative leagues like New Japan Pro Wrestling become more popular.
But the NFL clearly skews Republican (and the NBA is way liberal). I declare myself correct.