Tag: sports

Formula One abolishes its grid girls:

Walk-on grid girls were axed from Formula One today as the motorsport followed the move within darts to get rid of glamour women. F1 bosses said they will no longer use grid girls from this current season which starts in Australia in two months’ time because it is not in keeping with their ‘brand values’.

The move mirrors the Professional Darts Corporation’s decision last week to end the long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage. The changes will also apply to other races which take place on grand prix weekends and will come into play from the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 25.

Sean Bratches, F1 managing director of commercial operations, said: ‘Over the last year we have looked at a number of areas which we felt needed updating so as to be more in tune with our vision for this great sport. While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 Grands Prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms. We don’t believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world.’

London-based charity the Women’s Sport Trust had previously put pressure on F1 to drop its walk-on girls along with boxing and cycling, after the decision in darts. It tweeted last week: ‘We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling… your move.’

It doesn’t matter who you are, how successful you are, or what you do. Sooner or later, SJWs are coming for you and your job.

Given that the NFL is even more converged than F1, can you really doubt that the league will be forcing the teams to get rid of their cheerleading squads soon?  After all, they are at odds with what we are reliably informed are modern day societal norms.

Note that as with GamerGate and ComicsGate, it is the SJWs in the media who are driving this effort to disemploy pretty women. And you know ESPN is going to be all over this next season; it’s going to be the next great cause for them.

I think the girls are great, they get paid and it’s a job for them. I haven’t got a problem. But I do have a big problem in the age we live in – I’ve got the BBC, ITV and Sky, my three UK broadcasters, saying to me this is not part of their editorial policy any longer. They do not want to show the walk-on girls on television.
– PDC Chairman Barry Hearn

Just to be clear, I am no longer permitting any comments by the sports-hating Gamma crowd. Every anti-sports comment will be spammed on sight. Neither I nor anyone else cares why you don’t watch pro football, women’s badminton, men’s beach volleyball, or anything else, and we don’t appreciate your SJW-like attempts to interfere with what we happen to play, watch, and enjoy.

It was bad enough when the spaghetti-armed soyboys were littering every NFL thread with repetitive explanations of why they didn’t watch sports. (We already knew they didn’t ever play them.) But lately, they’ve been spamming unrelated threads with information about their non-watching habits and revealing far more than anyone ever wanted to know about their bizarre sexual obsessions.

I don’t care what people like or don’t like. And I am not interested in anyone’s opinions about what they don’t like and what they don’t follow. If you want to preach the gospel of hating sports for one reason or another, that’s fine, but do it on your own platform.

UPDATE: This was the fifth comment on this post: “Fat Boomers are giving up the NFL but not Vox “True Alt-Right” Day lol” So, I have turned off anonymous commenting on the blog because I have better things to do than clean up after the Fake Right. You will now have to be registered in order to comment here. You can thank the Alt-Retards for that. And they are so socially clueless that they will almost certainly hail this as a victory.

After all, nothing spells success like convincing people that you can’t be trusted not to shit all over the carpet.

ProFootballTalk wonders if the Eagles will even get the chance to turn down a White House visit:

Trump congratulated the Eagles on Twitter shortly after the game, but there’s no way of knowing whether the invitation will actually come. After the Golden State Warriors said they didn’t want to go, Trump rescinded their invitation, making it reasonable to wonder whether the Eagles will be invited at all.

The smart thing to do is for Trump to not extend an invitation to the Eagles. The players have made it clear that they have taken a side against America, its President, and its military veterans. So, Trump should remove their ability to take a very public stand against him by the simple measure of not doing anything at all.

The moderators and I have been spamming a suprising number of snarky off-topic comments like these lately.

The Jew/SJW converged Negro Felon League sure does get prominent placement here on Vox Populi, the home of AltRight thought leadership. Why is that?

Why do I occasionally post about the NFL? Because I like NFL football and I have been a Vikings fan since I was a child. A lot of my readers also like the NFL and enjoy discussing it in the comments. And even though I am unhappy enough about the recent SJW convergence that I stopped subscribing to NFL Game Pass and only watch the free games now – an act that sends a stronger message to the NFL and hurts the league considerably more than someone who only ever watched the free games not watching them now – that doesn’t change my liking for the actual sport of football at all.

The reality is that the spaghetti-armed gammas of the Alt-Retard have always hated football, have always hated and feared athletes, and they are using the recent convergence of the league to try to convince others to hate the sport too. That hatred for the sport itself comes through in their bizarre attempts to influence what others watch; if their concerns were merely about race they would either concentrate on basketball or the recent signs of the coming convergence of hockey. They don’t offer alternatives. They don’t offer any solutions. Instead, they leap to try to police the entertainment choices of others and attack them for daring to like what they like.

Which, of course, is closely akin to what SJWs do. This should not be a surprise because Alt-Retards are, like SJWs, of the political Left, and they also, like SJWs, largely consist of low-status gamma soyboys.

Their stupidity, and their certain failure, can be seen in the obvious futility of their actions. If they were smart, they would be working to either fix or replace one of the most popular institutions in America. But they’re not, so their brilliant strategy is to simply attack and insult everyone who enjoys that institution. By doing so, they inspire even those who were previously indifferent to them to actively despise them.

The Fake Right isn’t merely fraudulent and futile, it is almost criminally stupid. The Alt-Right is inevitable, but the Alt-Retards will never be a true part of it, let alone lead it, no matter how much they dance for the media and claim to be leading the parade.

Questions are being raised about the mysterious benching of Malcolm Butler for the Super Bowl:

How are you feeling about your coach today, Patriot fans?

Still got “Do Your Job” and “No Days Off” tattooed somewhere on your body? Still blissfully living the life of “In Bill We Trust”? Still applauding the coach for giving the media the finger every time we ask Bill Belichick a football question? Still believe his decisions are none of anybody’s business?

I sense a crack in the blind loyalty the Hoodie traditionally receives from Patriot Nation. The Patriots lost a very winnable Super Bowl Sunday night in some part because Bill benched cornerback Malcolm Butler for some undisclosed infraction or violation of the Patriot code.

We don’t know the reason, of course. No one will say anything. Bill and his stooges (yes, that means you, Matt Patricia) are still parsing out the bogus company line that Butler’s benching was a football decision.

Rubbish. Butler played in more than 98 percent of the Patriots’ defensive snaps in 18 games this season. He was healthy enough Sunday to play one snap on special teams. But he was not allowed to play defense on a night when the backup quarterback of the Eagles shredded Patricia’s House of Cards for 41 points.

You know, Minneapolis isn’t exactly New Orleans or Miami, so I tend to doubt Butler could have gotten himself into too much trouble the night before. Is Belichick being a good guy by refusing to throw Butler under the bus for his own actions? Or is this an example of Belichick being too stubborn for his team’s good?

Why didn’t they ask Adams?

Super Bowl Ratings Slip To 8-Year Low As Eagles Score Historic Win

1) 2015: 49.7 – Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks (NBC)
2) 2016: 49.0 – Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers (CBS)
3) 2017: 48.8 – Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons (Fox)
4) 2013: 48.1 – Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers (CBS)
5) 2011: 47.9 – Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (Fox)
6) 2018: 47.4 – Super Bowl LII: New England Patriots vs Philadephia Eagles (NBC)

They can’t blame cord-cutting for this one. What has to be making the NFL execs nervous isn’t just the fact that the game last night was a great, high-scoring one between two big-market teams that went down to the wire. It’s also the fact that the public response to T-Mobile’s heavily converged commercial has been so viciously negative. You’re betting on the wrong horse, gentlemen. Do keep in mind that if everyone believed in equality, there wouldn’t be a Super Bowl in the first place as every team would finish 8-8.

Spacebunny has been entertaining herself today by watching, as she put it, T-Mobile representatives trying mop up the blood on Twitter.

Discuss amongst yourselves….

Breaking news from Minnesota: Black Lives Matter activists have chained themselves together to block the light rail lines going to the stadium. This should turn out well for them.

4th Quarter Update: Very smart coaching by Pederson. He’s already burned four minutes on what he clearly intends to be the final drive. He’s going to try to get it down to less than 20 seconds with no New England timeouts before he lets them score. The best way to beat Brady is to keep him off the field.

The fact that NFL security is in the hands of the woman who botched the Seth Rich murder investigation is not exactly confidence inspiring. On the other hand, perhaps we can hope that Roger Goodell knows something about Hillary Clinton.

Let’s face it, if the sort of people who arrange these false flags ever did decide to put on a show at the Super Bowl, you know they would prefer to do it in Minneapolis or some other flyover city that they couldn’t tell you is in Indiana, Minnesota, or Nebraska. And given how much trouble the Deep State appears to be in, it would be astonishing if they didn’t wave a few false flags in the next month or two in order to “prove” to the American people how the corrupt federal agencies are keeping them safe and how important it is that faith in these massive, unaccountable secret organizations not be undermined.

Seriously, though, what is with all of these Clintonistas in positions of corporate power at entertainment industry companies like Warner Bros, DC Comics, and the NFL?

I’ve been very impressed by Bill Belichick over the years. He is one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time, if not the greatest. But one thing has always confused me about him. He is both a superlative strategist AND a superlative tactician. This is not normal. In fact, this should not even be possible, due to the way that two entirely different types of thought processes are involved.

Now, an intelligent man can certainly perform both functions at an above-average level, but to be better than nearly everyone else at both is so unlikely that it borders on the impossible. However, it turns out that Belichick is not the rare exception after all, that he is merely a great tactician. How, then, has he become known as such a great football strategist as well?

The answer is that there are two Bill Belichicks. Or rather, there is a brilliant strategist who is entirely content to remain in Belichick’s shadow. The two best friends have been a team since their year together at Phillips Exeter Academy, but it is Ernie Adams, not Bill Belichick, who is the literal genius. The interesting thing is that neither the sports media nor most of the Patriots players truly understand the nature of their incredibly effective partnership.

Ernie Adams is a man of mystery with the Patriots. He’s been with Bill Belichick for virtually his entire coaching career, but no one knows exactly what he does, even though he is at every practice and every game. We asked a number of Patriots players and coaches at media availability over the course of Super Bowl week what they know about him.

“I think he’s quality control,” rookie defensive tackle Adam Butler said. “He’s like checks and balances. I feel like he just checks and makes sure everyone is on the same page and is making sure we do things the way we want to.”

“Not much,” offensive lineman Ted Karras said. “He’s a guy that is around every day and does his job.”

Added safety Duron Harmon: “Ernie does a lot for this team. He helps obviously the coaching staff prepare for the games. I can’t give you too much information, but that is just what I would say. He does a good job helping the coaching staff make sure we’re prepared for our weekly matchups. Probably one of the smartest people in the building. He knows probably every rule in the rule book. That shows you how smart he is, how in-tune he is to the game and I think he’s a big part of what we accomplish here.”

Unlike the other two, Harmon knows what’s up. Belichick is the leader and the tactical genius, and Adams is the strategic brain. He is a statistics quant who “helps the coaching staff” by writing the weekly game plans which Belichick then implements. In game development terms, Adams is the designer and Belichick is the producer. That’s how the Patriots are able to completely change their style from week to week. That’s also why it has almost been irrelevant who has been serving as offensive or defensive coordinator over the years, and why very successful OCs and DCs have struggled after leaving New England.

I remember I asked him about a play and he recalled a play from like the early 2000s and the game and the score. I was like, ‘Oh my Gosh.’

Bingo. Thanks to Adams, New England has led the way in the statistical analysis of pro football for nearly 20 years, which is why they always seem to be able to counter even the most effective opposition game plans and make adjustments to defeat it. The Patriots have been racing with intellectual turbo technology while all the other teams are normally aspirated. It’s a bit amusing to note that the sports media made a big deal about how Cleveland’s now-jettisoned management team was going with a quant-heavy approach two years ago when New England has been using it all along.

How do I know this? Well, you see, I have my own connections at Phillips Exeter Academy, both friends and family. And that’s why we’re not likely to see Brady leave New England before he retires, no matter what scenarios the media happens to concoct. Brady, more than anyone, understands how important Adams is to his historic success.

This also may explain why Belichick never talks much about football strategy. First, it’s really not his thing. And second, doing so would almost certainly reveal his unexpected limitations on the subject.

West Ham United is under fire because the director of transfers is both astute enough to realize that fielding an all-African soccer team is sub-optimal player management and naive enough to have explained his reasoning.

Henry sent an email on January 27 — in response to an inquiry about a footballer of Cameroonian descent — to another senior West Ham official and an agent. In the email, Henry wrote: ‘We don’t want any more Africans and he’s not good enough. I sent Thomas to watch him and the other lad last week and he said no. If Palace take them good luck.’ Sportsmail knows the identity of both recipients but a stipulation before being sent the email was that they should remain anonymous.

Henry was asked if there is a club policy regarding African players. Initially he replied ‘no’, only to be informed that we understand he has told more than one agent in the last month that the club does not want any more African players.

Henry then confirmed it was true and suggested it was a policy supported by club management. ‘Yeah,’ Henry replied. ‘Because we had three and we felt we didn’t particularly want any more African players.’

Asked why, Henry replied: ‘Erm, no reason. It’s nothing racist at all. It’s just sometimes they can have a bad attitude.

‘We had problems with Sakho, with Diafra Sakho. We find that when they are not in the team they cause mayhem. It’s nothing against the African race at all.

‘I mean, look, there are top African players. There’s not a problem with them. It’s just sometimes they cause a lot of problems when they are not playing, as we had with Diafra. He’s left, so great. It’s nothing personal at all.’

Asked if he thought his view was discriminatory towards African players, Henry asked: ‘In what way?’

Asked then if he thought his comments amounted to a slight on African players, he replied: ‘No. I don’t know what you are trying to get at here. All I said was, look, we have a great lad in Kouyate, he’s brilliant, a great player for us, he’s a good lad.

‘But the likes of Sakho have caused mayhem. When he’s not playing … he always wants a new deal. That’s all it was. It was nothing discriminatory at all.

‘I could say we get offered Russian players. I just find with Russian players that they don’t settle in England. It’s like Italians. How many Italians come and settle in England? As a club we are not discriminatory at all.

‘If you’ve got too many, they all sit together and it becomes a situation where you can have problems. But then you can have problems with English players. I don’t know what you are driving at.’

The ironic thing is that West Ham already has six Africans on the first team that the director brought in. So, the man is clearly not racist or unwilling to employ Africans. What is he supposed to do, bring in more players they think aren’t good enough to start and are likely to cause trouble because they have too much time on their hands?

This is one reason I never explain myself or my reasoning to anyone anymore, except when I feel that doing so is going to serve my objectives in some way. I certainly don’t explain myself in response to questions, much less demands that I do so. It is almost as important to never explain your reasons for your actions as it is to never apologize. Just as an apology is taken by some as an admission of guilt, an explanation is taken as an invitation to a debate.

Consider the difference when you’re asked if you are going to go somewhere you don’t want to go.

1. Are you going to the meeting? No. Why not? I am not going. Um, well, okay….
2. Are you going to the meeting? No. Why not? Well, I’m busy. Come on, I can see that you’re not that busy. Well, also, I don’t like so-and-so. I don’t think he’s going to be there. And even if he is, you can just ignore him. But… but I don’t want to go! Well, you have no reason not to go. Disqualified. See you there at three!

No matter what reasoning you provide, someone can always invent an excuse to not accept that reasoning and then insist that you have to do what you don’t want to do or that you truly are what you deny being. So don’t give them the opening. All Henry should have said was “no, we don’t want him.” That would have saved him his job and his club a considerable amount of trouble.

And when people ask “why”, just tell them “what part of ‘no’ did you find hard to understand? I am not in the habit of explaining myself.” While there are those to whom we owe explanations, the vast majority of people who ask for explanations do not merit them. I get emails every day asking me to explain my position on X, Y, or Z. In most cases, I simply ignore them.

The only correct response to “I don’t understand why you believe XYZ” is “I don’t care what you understand.” The vast majority of people demanding explanations are not seeking to learn, they are seeking to argue.