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well the problem is they didn't used to be somebody, they were just a guy who threw a ball around better than other people and got paid for it. he was an entertainer, not a producer or contributer. once his sports career ended he went back to who he really was, a below average intelligence man who happened to have above average physical genetics, ie a nobody. the entertainment industry is just another drug people introduce into their system that keeps them plugged in. the moment he's served his purpose he will be replaced, as there was no true lasting value coming from him, just junk food for the mind.

it has nothing to do with red pill male disposability, his value just happened to be artificial based on a superficial demand.

this is half the red pill community in a nutshell.

stop telling me how beta you are or used to be and show me something i can work with!

I'm pretty sure you would want to know if I shot up my entire school, before hanging out with me :P

Exactly. It's not what you've done, it's what you're doing now.

I used to do drugs... I still do, but I used to too

I scored six touchdowns in one game for Polk High!

Meritocracy doesnt always work though. People get injured in football all the time. There are some great athletes you never heard about because someones leg bent the wrong way. There isn't just merit involved, but luck, and being in the right place at the right time.

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"what have you done for me lately?" ~some Eddie Murphy stand-up about women I think.

nobody cares what you did.

Well then, keep it up while you still can.

There's an inherent problem with this attitude though, because this is what it inevitably leads to.

And when you get your ass kicked, your kids killed and your females fucked, it is almost as romantic as the BP crap - or so the hamster says.

To consciously choose this path is not very wise IMO.

When you’re winning, who thinks about losing? But when you’re faced with what I’m looking at, a new and cold reality dawns. A fact we like to ignore. You cannot win. The only prize they guarantee when you play this game is that you will lose. It’s only a question of when.

~ Revolver

I've never once heard anyone say that. Seems more like something you hear in movies.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people care if you won the Medal of Honor etc. your statement is a little off.

Navy SEALS don't lose their prestige when they retire.

They have so many annoying female sports "reporters" now also. Its gotten ridiculous.

I can't sit down and waste my Sundays on football anymore. Sunday is "get ready for the week ahead of you day"

they tried to double their market size by bringing in women... turned out that shit just scared off guys. sports increasingly have shitty ratings, and they're only getting worse... to the point where ESPN is fucked so hard. they've committed to licensing deals with the sports leagues, but they're beginning to lose forced placement in cable packages, and many are cutting cable altogether, losing 8% of subscribers in 2015 alone. because the contracts are all multi-year, and the consumer trends are only accelerating, unless a drastic change somehow sucks them out of this problem, the company will be forced into bankruptcy within a few years.

Football- what have YOU DONE FOR ME lately?

Blue pill invaded it because capitalism allowed it

Could be blue pill culture, it could also be the advancements of medical science in understanding concussions and their long term effects. Wonder which is more likely?

I mentioned this is so many words in another thread and was downvoted to oblivion.

I guess betas like getting brainwashed and cucked for breakfast.

It's hard to unplug, even for RedPillers.

I, personally, won't contribute ad revenue and ratings to a program that attempts to plant cuck seeds in my mind by watching dudes wear hot pink and espouse SJW faggotry. No thanks.

Turn that shit off and never look back.

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I have season tickets (mostly sell them) and it's funny because when you go to a game, many of the male spectators are some of the fattest, most pathetic, no-pussy getting betas you'll ever see in your life. Sometimes they are literally almost in tears when the game doesn't go their way. It's rather sad. I wonder if it was always like this.

that makes guys like drew brees look even more alpha, short but still succeeding.

Almost everything we do in life is largely the consequence of our genetics. When you look at the types of people who are successful at writing code or who are successful in retail sales it's impossible to ignore how those occupations place selective pressures that result in the best workers having certain genetic traits in common. Sport is not unique in this sense. In actual fact the meritocracy in american football is greater because of supply and demand; the supply of world class players is very small, and the demand for them is enormous, therefore there is huge competition.

true that. But at the same time, you can't deny that high-level sport competition requires massive amounts of work.

Holy shit, I think I can see both sides of the privilege/merit argument with that example. Luck/privilege will help you start, but once in, only those who work hard will manage to stay in there. Those who didn't have the luck/privilege are quick to complain they never got the chance and, bitter, to downplay the importance of hard work, while those who made it thanks to their hard work might overlook the fact that it might not have been enough had they not been given the easy start somehow.

Does this make me a feminist? lol

While genetics can have an important role in sports, you see more often than one would expect exceptions. Look at Messi for example. Small, light guy and yet 1 of the best soccer players of all times... If based only on genetics, no one would give a crap about him.

Meritocracies exist within their own paradigm, though. Naturally, he is genetically gifted compared to us normal folks. With rare exceptions, any professional athlete will be in some way physically superior in a given aspect. I'm stronger, faster, and in better health than David Wells ever was...but he could throw a baseball in a way that I never could, even as a college baseball player myself. Within the game, he had exceeded me by every measure of success, simply because he had more gas and pinpoint control in his arm. And that's okay. He couldn't last a minute in my career field. We are both high achievers within our own meritocracies. No one has the capability to be a Supreme Alpha, operating at the height of every physical and intellectual ecosystem simultaneously. So we generally try to be men in the primal sense, and masters in one or two specialities that will put us into the upper reaches of our chosen meritocratic systems.

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