(10-15-2020 08:33 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (10-15-2020 08:08 AM)Buckminster Fuller Wrote: Reasons respondents indicated they were less likely to watch live sports:
35% Concerns about getting together due to corona virus
32% Athletes speaking out on political issues
21% Other options of shows to watch
20% News coverage of 2020 election
19% Changes to game experience - new rules
19% Amount of free time
Link to article which links to report:
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/marist-cent...ojtwc.dpbs
I have to wonder how many of these people who claim to be boycotting sports were really "fans" to begin with. I disagree with a lot of things said by athletes, actors, and musicians - but I still watch sports and movies, and I still listen to music.
#CuttingOffYourNoseToSpiteYourFace
To be fair, I suppose there are certain - really heinous - things a celebrity might say that would make me boycott that person, but it would have to be EVIL; just voicing an opinion contrary to my own isn't enough to make me give up college football.
JMO though.
I read the article and did not see the word "boycott". I am not boycotting shrimp nor scallops but am eating less of them because of the indirect effects of Covid. The two places I like eat seafood are:
a. A white, redneck, truck-driving, cattle farming, hole in the wall
b. A black, Health grade B, transient attracting, without air conditioning, hole in the wall
In both places there are patrons whom I don't want to interact with and breathe their non-masked exhalations. Place "a" plays horrible x-brand white Christian music. I can get some decent gospel in the black place, but that's if the loudspeakers are working. And to be entirely fair, I would avoid Pike Place market in Seattle if I could emotionally stand the flight out there.
I am watching less and my wife is watching less. The real why we are watching less is that sports doesn't matter as much if you:
a. Are turned off by the sanitized, bland, packaging
b. Are worried about parents or kids
c. Are turned off in general about devolution of our politics
d. Are tired of ANYONE's *** **** political manifesto
c. Want to completely shut out the world
For me one of the key issues with polling is question design. Polling about a choice between a and b is easy. Polling about why someone believes something is more complex and even if you give 5-7 answer choices, for a lot of people you are getting their chosen representation of their rational for an opinion.
Even the answer "athletes speaking out about political issues" masks the stupid talking heads who after allowing the athletes a turn at the mike of the public stage regurgitate such issues in the pre-game coverage.