LOCKED Espn apologizing for having a fantasy draft on tv.

[DesotoCountyDawg]

People will find anything and everything to be offended about.


https://www.google.com/amp/amp.www....-fake-fantasy-football-auction-black-athletes

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Sigh, facepalm.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I honestly think the people going nuts over it don't know what fantasy football is.

 

[patdog]

What in the hell? I don't even like fantasy sports, but this is ridiculous. Where is all the bitching about all the white fans sitting in the stands or watching on TV that pay the salaries of those athletes? Not to mention that a lot of the athletes are actually white themselves. I guess if I buy Tom Brady, that's not racist but if I buy James White, that is?

 

[BossDawg78]

What in the hell? I don't even like fantasy sports, but this is ridiculous. Where is all the bitching about all the white fans sitting in the stands or watching on TV that pay the salaries of those athletes? Not to mention that a lot of the athletes are actually white themselves. I guess if I buy Tom Brady, that's not racist but if I buy James White, that is?

Careful. You'll be called a racist with that rational attitude.

In before the lock!

 

[QuaoarsKing]

I honestly think the people going nuts over it don't know what fantasy football is.

Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt that the tiny sliver of a fraction of people upset about the auction mean well and honestly didn't know that this is really common and in no way intended to be reminiscent of slavery, and ESPN is being overly nice and sensitive to their hurt feelings, but in a genuinely sincere way.

But come on, silly **** like this is why Trump won and how all of those extremely intelligent people at ESPN can't recognize this is beyond me.

 

[Col. Forbin]

Why aren't they apologizing about the actual NFL Draft then?

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

This country is on fire for racist stories. For the first time since I've had a cellular phone, I have blocked CNN alerts because I'm tired of Trump this, Trump that, RACISTS!!!

It's going to take decades to address the racism in this country, not overnight like so many would like and I would really like to hear about other news stories.

Rome is going to burn while the media and talking heads try to teach us all how to be better people.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

The most vocal person was Shaun King. That's all you need to know.

 

[aTotal360]

Good ol Talcum X.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

There's better places to spend your energy right now. This is stupid.

You're hurting your own cause going after meaningless ******** like this.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

This country is on fire for racist stories. For the first time since I've had a cellular phone, I have blocked CNN alerts because I'm tired of Trump this, Trump that, RACISTS!!!

It's going to take decades to address the racism in this country, not overnight like so many would like and I would really like to hear about other news stories.

Rome is going to burn while the media and talking heads try to teach us all how to be better people.

I have stopped watching all national news, deleted news apps from the phone, and refuse to watch any show that injects politics any longer. Know what? I've probably dropped a few points of blood pressure. "But you don't know what's happening in the world" someone may say? My bedroom window points east. Suns up? Yes. Good news. All the news I need in the morning.

If I hear about Russia it better be a Bond movie, the olympics, or a documentary on the fall of the wall.If it isn't, channel changed.

I watch Married with Children on TBS in the morning while getting ready instead of news. And I feel I'm in a hell of a lot better mood than the other folks that show up in the morning.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I have stopped watching all national news, deleted news apps from the phone, and refuse to watch any show that injects politics any longer. Know what? I've probably dropped a few points of blood pressure. "But you don't know what's happening in the world" someone may say? My bedroom window points east. Suns up? Yes. Good news. All the news I need in the morning.

If I hear about Russia it better be a Bond movie, the olympics, or a documentary on the fall of the wall.If it isn't, channel changed.

I watch Married with Children on TBS in the morning while getting ready instead of news. And I feel I'm in a hell of a lot better mood than the other folks that show up in the morning.

Agree with you brother! Glad to know there are more folks than just me who feels this way. The viewership for ALL news networks have declined in the past few years, so I guess there are other folks out there just like us.

I dropped CNN, Fox and pretty much quit watching local Austin news as well. They spout the same mantra as their parent networks.

My wife watches OAN, but I never join in.

If there is a real international news story, I'll peruse BBC and hit the others to catch up, but NEVER for political news.

 

[ReadyReady]

My thoughts exactly.

Not sure how someone can go from legitimate outrage over Charlottesville to faux outrage of a televised fantasy draft with a straight face, and I'm actually a borderline "fan" of Shaun King, et al.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I've stopped watching cable news. It's all garbage.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I'm actually a borderline "fan" of Shaun King, et al.

I'm curious as to how this developed.

 

[dorndawg]

Maybe I missed it but doesn't look like ESPN apologized? Or even acknowledged it?

I'm kina over headlines declaring mass OUTRAGE when it's 5 dickheads on twitter bitching about something.

ETA: guess they did, kinda

Auction drafts are a common part of fantasy football, and ESPN’s segments replicated an auction draft with a diverse slate of top professional football players. Without that context, we understand the optics could be portrayed as offensive, and we apologize.

 

[KurtRambis4]

That clown is a waste of oxygen*

*

 

[KurtRambis4]

Unfortunately, one

I'm kina over headlines declaring mass OUTRAGE when it's 5 dickheads on twitter bitching about something.

of those "5 dickheads" has a large following, and writes for an entity that services the biggest city in the world.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Positive note: I'm one step closer in this country to reparations that are due me because of my Cherokee heritage. #trailoftearsku

 

[RocketDawg]

Silly. Hypersensitivity.

 

[DocHolliday.sixpack]

Good grief. So old so fast!

People will find anything and everything to be offended about.


https://www.google.com/amp/amp.www....-fake-fantasy-football-auction-black-athletes

No more "news" for me as well, too much negativity with an agenda. I'll stick to enjoying the good old rueing of the supposed flagship.

 

[Carbaryl]

I watch Married with Children on TBS in the morning while getting ready instead of news. And I feel I'm in a hell of a lot better mood than the other folks that show up in the morning.

We are kindred spirits my friend.

 

[57stratdawg]

All Trump had to do was give a statement saying the KKK and Nazis have no place in our country. Yet here we are 3 days later and Trump is doubling down on "they left is too blame too".

I cannot imagine a worse approach to this.

 

[aTotal360]

Just like our former president did with Baltimore and Ferguson. They both let the situations fester.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

All Trump had to do was give a statement saying the KKK and Nazis have no place in our country.

Sure that's all he had to say. Yep. No media would find a single fault in him after that. The people who were really to blame would be blamed and those who are not would not. I'm sure the media would have praised him for taking a stand. His words wouldn't be picked apart for days on end. There sure wouldn't be any attempts to falsely try to tie him to any of the groups. Ohhhh Noooo.

Sarcasm On _/_ Off

 

[57stratdawg]

The optics can't be that you're pro white supremacist. That's the only way you lose if you're the President, any President.

 

[BossDawg78]

All Trump had to do was give a statement saying the KKK and Nazis have no place in our country. Yet here we are 3 days later and Trump is doubling down on "they left is too blame too".

I cannot imagine a worse approach to this.

Well, the left should get some blame for this. The KKK and Neo-Nazis were virtually non-existent until groups like Antifa started perpetuating this faux "war on racism". All it does is breed more hate and intolerance. Many of these people claiming to be bastions of tolerance need to take a good personal inventory of their own hatred.

(Let me guess, I'm somehow racist now because I'm "defending" the "alt-right")

But it's like I read elsewhere, Trump could walk on water and Hollywood, the media and those against him will still swear he can't swim. There's literally nothing he could say that could've been good enough to pacify those who insist on twisting his words and blowing everything he says out of proportion. These people WANT to find racism, even if they have to instigate it, just so they can virtue signal and pretend to look like some champion of social justice, or just to start drama. The Left is just as much to blame here.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Same here. Haven't watched the news in about 2 years now. Much better life, less background noise from people professionally yelling at each other.

I didn't even hear about the Charlottesville thing till I read it here. Sounds like some idiots acted like idiots and some other idiots did some other stupid stuff.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

The optics can't be that you're pro white supremacist. That's the only way you lose if you're the President, any President.

Oh good grief. The optics are not that. Evidently every schmuck with an mic and a agenda says it is, but it's not to actual folks that have their heads screwed on.

I put anyone right in the flat earth society that says the sitting president is pro white supremacist and or NAZI sympathizer.

It's just kinda funny that absolutely no one, in any party, saw him as being pro white supremacist when they were hitting him up for donations and having a grand time at his 2005 wedding.

But you know who was a white wealthy southern governor who has never had to convince anyone he was not pro white supremacist? Just look below.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Pardon me, but what the 17 is wrong with you?

There was a white supremacist rally where a ******* terrorist attack occurred, with a white supremacist running down counter-protesters with his car, killing a woman.

Both sides to blame? Alt-left? Literally all he had to do was condemn neo-nazis and he failed at that. No other modern politician has ever been so tone deaf, so disgustingly incapable of doing or saying the right thing.

 

[KurtRambis4]

That's exactly

what he did, Einstein, but keep watching CNN and lapping up their "OM level delusion."

 

[KurtRambis4]

I take it

you were on some mission to deep outer space the previous 8 years?

 

[BossDawg78]

There was a white supremacist rally where a ******* terrorist attack occurred, with a white supremacist running down counter-protesters with his car, killing a woman.

Both sides to blame? Alt-left? Literally all he had to do was condemn neo-nazis and he failed at that. No other modern politician has ever been so tone deaf, so disgustingly incapable of doing or saying the right thing.

This is what the left excels at. I knew I was going to get at least one response directed at me trying to make me look like I'm the one out of my mind. All I did was say that both sides are to blame here, and they are. How is Antifa showing up to the rally hiding their faces, holding clubs and eventually wandering out of their designated zone getting a pass? And, again, Trump could do backflips in the street while executing white supremacists and pulling down Confederate statues with a Freightliner and it still wouldn't have been enough for people like you. It's fascinating how people practically think he's the only one starting this garbage and evidently the only one who can fix it, too.

 

[KurtRambis4]

You'd have to be

blinded by your own biases to not say the kkk, antifa, and blm were responsible for the proceedings in dog17, North Carolina.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Did the left:

Bring any nazis?
Hold a racist rally?
Lead racist chants?
Murder anyone with a vehicle?

No. Both sides were not to blame. If you blame someone for getting murdered by a white supremacist for protesting nazis, you are wrong.

And for the record, no need to call me the left. I voted against Obama twice, and didn't vote for Hillary. Ted Kennedy got away with murder and Jesse Jackson is bad for America. I will stand up to those from either side that do wrong.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Again, not

certain of your whereabouts of the past, but leftist organizations like ANTIFA and BLM were there, so yes, there were. Both of these organizations, as well as the KKK are racists, domestic terrorist groups.

 

[57stratdawg]

Oh good grief. The optics are not that.

Then why have several CEOs resigned from his advisory council? They became the leader of some of the most powerful companies in the US without their head on straight?

The only way a President messes up this situation is your actions or words lead to the KKK saying 'thank you'.

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[BossDawg78]

Hold a racist rally?
Lead racist chants?
Murder anyone with a vehicle?.

If you think the left has never done this or instigated anything of the sort, then you are truly detached from reality. Hell, there was a far-left nutjob who shot up a Republican softball practice not too long ago and it didn't receive nearly as much criticism as this. BLM chanting "Fry pigs (cops) like bacon"? You really think the left is innocent? BLM practically building their entire belief system on "white privilege"? Antifa openly calling for violence against Trump supporters and, well, whites in general?

My God...

 

[Hump4Hoops]

They are also dispicable.

The guy that shot up a softball game was despicable, and yes he was a leftie. I'm also vehemently opposed to BLM, they use bully tactics, and use dangerous and reckless methods to push their agenda.

But this incident wasn't BLM. It was white supremacists. So they deserve 100% of the blame in this instance.

It's important to call out abhorrent behavior on both sides. Dont turn a blind eye out of party loyalty.