Buck joshed, “The French Olympic male basketball win brings to mind that when France beats us at anything that’s not involving fatty pastries or stinky cheese, we’re in trouble.”
However, Clay and Buck and their feisty callers agreed that why we’re really in trouble with the Olympics and all other sports is no joking matter – or even about which team is better. Rather, it is the even deeper descent into “Go Woke, Go Broke,” which is simply a major turnoff that has people turning off their viewing devices in record numbers.
During the show, Clay noted Olympic champ Michael Phelps was TV network commentating at that moment and Clay had the impromptu reaction he said sums up his stance on wokeness in sports, “I didn’t care what Michael Phelps thought about abortion in America, I just wanted him to be the world’s best swimmer.”
Clay may have been years ahead of the curve on damage from wokeness in sports but now thinks many Americans are so repelled that “they there are a lot of red-blooded, waving-the-flag Americans that either don’t care about the Olympics this year, or are even rooting against some of the woke athletes out there, even though they’re fellow Americans.”
For those not yet woke to the true dynamics behind the get woke-go broke connection, Clay rang the alarm clock.
“I’ve been saying you go woke you get broke in the world of athletics for a long time,” he reminded. “That’s the natural reaction. And let me just explain this thesis for people out there who may not have worked through it. Sports, the idea is to appeal to every single person out there, regardless of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their sexuality. That’s what Michael Jordan represented. That’s what Tiger Woods represented. And really it is the phrase “Republicans Buy Sneakers Too,” which Jordan has admitted he said, represented the desire to appeal to everyone in becoming a global icon. And I believe that LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, athletes of that ilk, have destroyed that universal appeal.”
Clay was so ahead of that curve that he used Jordan’s phrase as his bestselling book title, along with the apropos subtitle, “How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics.”
Buck gave as a current disturbing example the ruckus over the German women’s gymnastics team’s, instead of bikini-style bottoms, wearing unitards at the Olympics to take a political stand rather than just the physical stances athletics fans expect from their sport.
Buck wanted to know if anyone – the woke or unwoke – was even staying awake during the Olympics.
C&B’s charged-up callers were – but mainly just long enough to become disgusted by ruinations by radicalized athletes. Listen here:
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