I assure you that you can still watch sports and not worry about politics. Maybe some people don’t care for players wearing “I Can’t Breathe” shirts. Now I can’t relate to that, but I remember Louisville wearing “heart over hype” shirts and then kicking their asses on the court. Sure I could’ve gotten upset, but the on court product was great. Competition isn’t going to cease to exist, and that’s why we watch right?
Personally, I didn’t agree with Drew Brees’ comments on protests, but I feel no different about him. I don’t know Drew Brees so there’s no reason for me to get mad about it. I also don’t know LeBron, so while I agree with his message, it’s not the same connection as when my wife and my friends express their views. I’m a fan of LeBron and I might take a second to read and like his posts, but it doesn’t go much further than that. Another example, apparently the Bosa brothers are big MAGA supporters. Of course that let’s me know they’re idiots, but it has zero effect on what they do on the field. I still want to watch them play because they are good at football. They could both get on Twitter today and say “I hate black people”, and I would tweet at them and call them racist pieces of shit. But if their games were on TV I wouldn’t turn it off just because they are playing. All the people that said they were boycotting the NFL because of the kneeling weren’t actually NFL fans. They were just self righteous assholes who watched football on Sundays because “that’s what you do in America”.