The pussification of America is to complain about trying to watch a football telecast focus on football instead of unrelated drama? Cool stuff.
Such a hilarious take. You want me to mute the sound or turn my eyes from a TV telecast? Who gives a **** is right, except who gives a **** about the emotions you're apparently obsessed with listening to. This is a football message board. The biggest football event that has happened was the NFL draft. The irony of your post is you're complaining on a football board about people complaining their football experience was ****tier than they wanted.
Tbh I never imagined Jeff getting drafted..so this never crossed my mind. Idk what the big deal is on this subject. If the fam was okay with sharing and offering the info then why are other ppl tripping? Maybe just maybe she wants to share her story with others to get in a potential position to help ppl going through the same issuesCan you imagine what did would have said if J. Thomas was drafted
I can't speak for others, but the point most of us have made is the direction draft telecasts have gone makes it obnoxious to watch. A family is free to share their story however they wish and, like you said, in ways they think it might be helpful to others. But, making the draft selection telecast trauma-themed (in the past the stories were here and there) is unnecessarily emotional. One example is the highlight of some player whose aunt died of cancer and there was no connection to his football 'story.' Just "hey, this dude had some family members who died." Pretty random and clearly targeting drama seekers. Since we're on a football board, we mentioned it the same way we'd mention the analyst of a Canes game sucked at his job.
My previous plan was simply to mention a football-related experience on a football message board and let it ride. Kinda like we all do when we encounter a ****** football analyst. But, now I plan to start a new website. One to try to mix drama and emotions with football. I take it we can count on your subscription.
I feel you..I usually turn the channel when they start to hit on that stuff. But some super fans in the NFL do like to know the background on their players. Ppl who setup and their own version of a teams draft board and wonder why a kid Ppl have higher up keeps falling like these stories. And these guys are sharing this info with ESPN when it comes to thing that motivate them in their journey. Now some of the legal stuff is on some tmz **** but when a kid like the guy from MISS st falls a year ago, explaining that situations helps understand why that it is..I just don’t understand the making of a thread for this when you can think critically and pretty much come up with the reason yourself...then again I’m guilty of questionable threads that later turned into cis classicS
Yes I understand your point there maybe some other kid maybe going through the same thing Watching the draft and saying “hey if Tee Higgins is going through the same thing I’m going through and can succeed then maybe I can.” But as an African American myself I felt like they were kinda over the top. But lastly as African Americans we are so traumatized about what happened with slavery that when we see ESPN go in-depth on a prospects up bringing in regards to his family struggles with substance abuse and shelter African Americans internalize it as a personal attack against their culture because we all are smart enough to know that not all African Americans families Are homeless and substance abusers. To me some of the family issues about the players should require some parental consent and there is a responsibility to sensitivity by espn That should be considered before airing a families personal laundry on television. It just common sense and poor judgment by ESPN. Unfortunately common sense is all to common.
