9/21/20 Why Do We Listen To Jocks?

     I wanted to write this last week when Wife was talking about her last pep rally and then seeing what was going on in the pro sports world but I didn't want to sound like I am now a blind conservative spreading the message.  This again relates to the narrative that keeps being spread by the left, of which I used to belong to not very long ago.  I despise this message of police overwhelmingly abusing their powers, it is a disgusting idea.  Yes, there have been instances I won't deny it, but time and again, the examples that keep being proposed to us as unjust and unfair can be reviewed by our own eyes and found to not be exactly as the radical left cry.

    I have already mentioned George Floyd being on drugs, had held a pregnant woman at gunpoint , unfortunate how he died, but he was resisting the whole way.  Same goes for Jacob Blake, allegedly raped a minor, was fighting with cops to get a knife, Rayshard Brooks, again, stole a cop's tazer after fighting with two cops on the ground, and on and on.  If the truth to these cases as we see were shown, would the riots continue?  How do you justify destroying a downtown area for a criminal caught doing criminal shit?

    Anyways, my point is why do we listen to jocks, no offense, but when we are in high school nobody thinks of jocks as the "smart ones".  This is where Wife was saying she hates going to her pep rallies.  It is not the fault of the kids, but she says it is always the same thing "mumble mumble mumble... go Bulldogs!!!"  The poor football players given the microphone never have anything groundbreaking to say.  Yet, we fast forward and expect that the most gifted physically who make it to the top levels somehow will also be gifted with brains to think about issues?  There may be a few, but the trope "dumb jocks" exists for a reason, no offense to the few that can actually read and think logically.

    Look at the Pittsburgh Steelers, a fine program historically, have won many super bowls and produced many hall of fame players, but they absolutely look like jackasses with the name of a guy who had no problem being the gunman in a drive-by situation.  If this part is true, why give any support to an animal of this caliber?  Slowly, at least some of the players are coming around and realizing what they are doing.  Kudos to Alejandro Villanueva who taped over the name of the criminal and instead wrote in an actual hero using the name of a fallen soldier.  That is the  type of person we should be recognizing, not these assholes who decide to fight with cops and make America look bad.