Mixed bag I would say. Most of the true believers don't even watch the NFL and haven't since the Kaepernick stuff.
The NFL is a lot more sensitive to this stuff than say, the SEC. They know they have an overall more moderate fanbase, even if it is still definitely the most right leaning of any of the professional sports leagues.
SEC teams meanwhile have fans in blackface, run confederate flags across midfield, and have their team's head coaches run for office as far right MAGA bootlicking demagogues. And win, usually.
i also believe most of maga are very into the NFL. i'm skeptical that 'most' of them don't watch it. i don't personally know a single Trumper who is anti-NFL, especially these days. their mood the whole week is usually dictated by how it's going for the Cowboys or Chiefs
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973718356633985451
Bessent doing MAGA no favors talking like that. Not very nationalist of him.
You also think they wave confederate flags at SEC games despite that being against conference rules for like a decade at this point.
if we’re going to use anecdotal evidence, i usually go out to do my drinking in central jersey (red areas in a blue state) during nfl/college football games, and i can assure you the trumpers are out and about on football weekends complaining about how much the jets and giants suck
if they “stopped watching football” they mean they stopped watching it at home
You literally cannot get in anywhere to watch a Chiefs game in the area unless you make an entire day of it to come in 2 hours before kickoff. And this is in the rural outskirts of Kansas City.
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No I know they do from living 90 mins away from 3 different SEC stadiums and going to games lol
You have absolutely no reason to believe me nor do I expect you to but trust me, it's happening plenty. Go tailgate a Ole Piss game (don't actually do this) or god forbid MSU.
I shouldn't speak in absolutes. There's different brands of Trumpers everywhere.
I do definitely enjoy the collective skepticism that it actually is as bad as I paint it down here though. Consider yourselves lucky that you only have to imagine it and not deal with it all the time.
If they were waving confederate flags on the field like you claimed the rest of the country would see it during TV broadcasts
But uh, we don't.
Scrolling down my Google news feed. These two stories were about 10 posts apart.
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The big wave of banning confederate flags from sporting events and government buildings came in 2020.
If anything the SEC was slightly ahead of the curve. They probably more than anything is what forced Mississippi to finally change its state flag by threatening them from no championship games unless they changed it.
That shit is 24/7 Trump with any of the other GoP
News: "Did Trump say he was going to liquefy all blacks?"
Vance/Cruz/Anyone: "that's crazy to even ask that, of course he didn't"
Trump: "I fucking hate all N****rs and I want to liquefy them all in a vat of acid"
Vance/Cruz/Anyone: "He's joking obviously, you just don't get his wit"
Trump: "I'm not joking I hate all minorities and i'm getting the acid baths ready now with ICE"
Everyone: "Well that is pretty upsetting...so anyways we just heard that a celebrity was saying something semi offhandedly bad about the president?! We're not going to spend 5hrs talking about that"