Cleveland Browns new stadium renovation proves sports fanatics are the real slaves and not athletes
Anyone that is lawfully employed has a boss. Contrary to today’s trend of working at home, the popularity of side hustles, and entrepreneur porn, you still have a boss. Even if it’s your customer, you answer to a person or must adapt to the needs of your market. Sports is no different, and athletes have very rich bosses with a tight grip on their respective franchises. If the professional NFL draft is similar to the slave auction, then where is the plantation? Is it the multi-million-dollar mansions they live in? There’s no crying and screaming, and mothers holding onto their children for the last time before being sold at the NFL auctions. But who is paying for the stadium? Taxpayers, even the hard-working citizens who do not watch sports. So who is the real slave? The athletes whose bodies are objectified to resemble a scientific experiment? Or the fans who prioritize sports and entertainment over God and family. Let’s discuss how Cleveland Browns new stadium renovation proves sports fanatics are real slaves, not athletes.
Besides the Cleveland Cavaliers championship in 2016, Cleveland sports fanatics haven’t had much to celebrate. Also, for its poor economy and cold weather, Cleveland isn’t at the top of the list for sports-free agents to come to play. Where Cleveland does rank at the top of the lists are usually Crime, poverty, poor education, and lack of employment, just to name a few. However, if you ask some visitors, They will tell you that Cleveland has great art and history museums and an orchestra that some say rivals New York’s. Yes, there’s nothing like great entertainment to remove the harsh realities of urban living, right?. Lastly, during the 2016 RNC, the entire world media spent several consecutive days in the newly renovated downtown. However, local activists reminded them on the loudspeaker of the countless number of people that had been shot and killed during the RNC less than a mile away.
Entertainment is THE trump card. Everyone in the world damn near, or at least in the states, has an issue they feel they want to protest on. Yet, NO ONE, absolutely no one, is protesting entertainment. Because withdrawing from sports and entertainment puts you alone with yourself. Our lack of spiritual development makes us entertain our positive and negative thoughts. And we don’t like our thoughts very much because we don’t like ourselves. So entertainment and sports become a void filler. Ever notice how the world seems to be on fire with an issue, then the people become silent and move on to something else that the media has scared them with? The issue didn’t change, and it never will. What happened is that people entertained themselves to distract from dealing with reality.
Ironically enough, at the time of writing this blog, President Job Biden gave a speech today on the future of economics. Biden isn’t an economist, and of course, he didn’t mention how sports teams are scamming money from cities all over America, including Cleveland. Even though Roger Noll, a Stanford economist, says that sports stadiums are terrible investments, people remain silent on their funding from taxpayers. Ask yourself this question, would athletes, especially the woke ones, quit sports and pursue another career if the money used to build the stadiums they play in was redirected? The tax money used to fund sports could improve schools, provide jobs, college scholarships and so much more. Thankfully some people are waking up, Jacksonville may be in the middle of a rap gang war but some of its residents aren’t tolerating it’s tax dollars being used to build sports stadiums.
Reports have surfaced that the browns are attempting to renovate their stadium, which could surpass 1 billion dollars. Oh, and today they’ve traded Baker Mayfield. What better time to strike while the iron is hot to dupe fans into renovating a stadium that they will pay for? Mayfield gave the browns their first and only playoff win since returning in 1999, so the owners are riding the wave hoping the team will continue to stay hot. However, if history is any indication, that isn’t true. Not only from the browns management’s standpoint but the sport in general. There are way too many variables to assume a team will become a super bowl contender for consecutive years. For one, the league is too competitive, and injuries can’t be accounted for. Projected super bowl teams are only an injury away from missing the playoffs completely. Despite the athletic talent of football players, the sport is based on analysts projecting the success and failure of a team. Narratives spun by sports media, local and national, drive the roller coaster of emotions for the expectations of their teams.
Let’s stay in Cleveland and use the Cavaliers as another example. After four consecutive finals and one championship, owner Dan Gilbert wanted to renovate the stadium using the taxpayer’s money. However, Lebron would leave, and the team hasn’t made the playoff since.
In conclusion, today’s woke athletes can prove their moral superiority by demanding that stadium funding be used to help impoverished communities they want to advocate for so badly. The ball is in your court; athletes, don’t drop the ball.