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1 minute ago, Skipper said:

Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I'm truly glad it's that way for you. The same forces that have made politics what they are have infected every level of sports so badly I haven't watched pro football in almost a decade and college is going that way. It's not that "politics" are in sports, but the societal forces that all this shit is downstream from are. American sports are basically unwatchable to me anymore.

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Like I said, I don't expect others to follow suit. Most people love their bread and circuses. 

But I personally am not going to send money to support the public face of an entity controlled by and capitulating to this stuff any longer. 

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Gotta love Dan Lanning saying common sense should prevail … so we should have armed guards at every one of the ~130k schools when we only have 470k local police officers for reference. 

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5 minutes ago, Skipper said:

If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point? 

I sympathize, but personally it's hard to to feel proud of the name on the front of the jersey if it's not committed to knowing the truth to be made free.  

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20 minutes ago, Skipper said:

To each their own, but I'm struggling to appreciate the nexus between Texas One Fund/Burnt Ends and Texas Football and MAGA.  I appreciate that Texas is a public institution with Abbot largely dictating policy.  But like the rest of the country, the players themselves are largely diverse in every aspect including political beliefs.

If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point?  I would probably just leave the country at that point.   Sports is the best release from all this shit IMO.   Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I liked what Dan Lanning had to say last week:  

 

What’s it like to have nothing but straight white people make up your entire family and friends?

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Regarding the NIL funds:  people pulling their donations will surely get the attention of other donors, and I'm really really really sure a lot of them are MAGAbbots.  So yeah, UT football can sit and spin for all I care.  We suck anyway.

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23 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A lot of nothing and both sidesisms. 

Dan mentions both sides while stating issues that are only negated by one side--guns and mental health.  I'm fine with what he said, and nobody can say that democrats aren't for gun control and mental health assistance, especially when universal health care is a central tenant of the parties platform.  Similarly, if I were to say it was foolish that both sides can't agree that abortion should be legalized, I'm really only speaking to one side's cutting access.    

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28 minutes ago, G650 said:

I'm truly glad it's that way for you. The same forces that have made politics what they are have infected every level of sports so badly I haven't watched pro football in almost a decade and college is going that way. It's not that "politics" are in sports, but the societal forces that all this shit is downstream from are. American sports are basically unwatchable to me anymore.

I just have a life, and to spend three hours watching somebody else living theirs is three hours I can't get back.  Now if I'm sharing that time with the wife, that's another story.  However, Texas football is mostly my only exception.  

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3 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

 Now if I'm sharing that time with the wife, that's another story.

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

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29 minutes ago, bluto said:

Gotta love Dan Lanning saying common sense should prevail … so we should have armed guards at every one of the ~130k schools when we only have 470k local police officers for reference. 

Hey, if we're not going to support reasonable gun control and mental health access, then we probably should spend more on protecting our kids.  And I do not want to be defending Dan Lanning, so that's my last take on it.    

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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Night putting?  You know, putting, at night?

. . . with the fifteen year old daughter of the Dean.

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I hope IFC isn't under the boycott. Because Inglorious Basterds is on right now, and I'm taking notes.

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7 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

So Disney is talking to Kimmel to try to get him back on the air. I assume they are telling him exactly how cowardly they are and how nice they want him to be. If they come to an agreement I'm certainly not restarting my subscription but I'm sure many will. 

I'm using this as an opportunity to trim costs from my life by eliminating money sent to corporate beasts in as many places as possible. Unfortunately I've also had to include contributions to any entity associated with capitulating to this authoritarian regime, which means I've canceled my Burnt Ends and Texas One Fund recurring payments as well as deciding no further contributions to UT academics will happen either. 

So far with just media and recurring UT-related cancellations I'm at about $3500 per year saved. Imagine getting paid to have a clearer conscience, that's a win-win.

I respect your decisions and support anyone who feels the same to follow suit. This isn't me trying to blow up burnt ends subs, but it really is as you said - the face of an organization that is capitulating. 

7 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Understood. Sucks immamac/BurntEnds had to be collateral damage to the general UT machine having to, as you said, go with the flow on a lot of things as a state institution. 

Treefiddy is fine if you want to support the site. I lose money on every burnt ends subscription (processing fees I gross up) 

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

That sounds terrible.



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