Super League Predictions

sdandrea1 The way we play, who the fuck would pay for that?

"Here's your up-front money, Steve. No, you can't get chips with that Diet Coke!"

Par4QC "Here's your up-front money, Steve. No, you can't get chips with that Diet Coke!"

Fuck that deal. I'm contacting Greg Norman!

sdandrea1

Again, we must remember that not everyone has a working bullshit meter in their brain. I could give you a perfect example, but would be chastised for being political. People are willingly fooled everyday.

Lincoln was right in that the problem with common sense is that it’s not all that common.

And the real issue with sportswashing is that it’s the countries that do it think it’s working. Whether it actually works is really a non issue.

Yes for the working bs meter crowd it’s a waste of money. It’s like a guy is a known wife beater. So he starts sponsoring women’s sports leagues in town to soften his image.

For most people they’d see it for what it is. For some though they’d fall for it and say he can’t be that bad a guy, look what he’s doing for women’s sports.

Bottom line is PT Barnum was right.

garyt1957 Whether it works or not is the WHOLE issue. Who cares what they think? If it doesn't work it doesn't work. If they want to make certain athletes mega rich by paying them I'm all for it. Let them blow their money AND they get nothing for it. That's actually a win/win

We're never going to agree on this. Let's try this. It's working for some of the ex PGA players. They're saying all kinds of flattering things about the Saudi's getting into golf and how it will grow the game and how they're letting women play golf for free to grow the game blah, blah, blah.

And even if they're being disingenuous and just parroting what they think they need to say to justify taking the Saudi money, it's doing just what the Saudi's want. It's the effort to soften their image. And if it backfires more than helps that's great. But some are buying it I'm sure.

An well know actor gets caught with a prostitute. His image goes in the toilet. He hires a public relations outfit to clean up his image. Does all kinds of good deeds to try and get peoples minds off his bad behavior. Does it work?

For many they'll see thru it. For the gullible it will work.

And where the money comes from makes a difference for many. Would you work for someone knowing that the money they paid you came from drugs, human trafficking or any other illegal gain?

Some would and some wouldn't I'm sure. I guess we'd have to stand outside on the street and ask people how can countries with human rights issues change their image in the world? And have a list, with one being getting into sports on a large worldwide scale and letting women play golf for free.

The letting women play golf for free may work better than sponsoring LIV. lol

mikeintopeka

Geopolitics is ugly ain’t it?

But back to whether people believe ridiculous things like ‘sportswashing’. Hypothetically speaking, a pathologically lying, failed businessman grifter / con artist, reality tv show host with no government experience runs for president.

Can he get elected? Is that harder to believe than a country with human rights abuses trying to cleanse their image with sports?

Which one is more ridiculous for people to fall for? Lol

Eguller

Absolutely. Netflix is showing Who We Are: A History of Racism in America. Historically we’ve committed some of the worst human rights atrocities in history.

But hopefully countries progress and expand human rights like we have. Although we’ve slid back just recently and may slide further. Sometimes it’s two steps forward and then a step backwards.

Hopefully the Saudi’s will start to realize human rights and practice it.

Yup. No one has clean hands historically. And it’s a constant battle.