I am so po'd at Ron Paul!

I have the same problem and I HATE sports. Furthermore, I HATE politics for the same reason: winners and losers. It's not like I really enjoy waving banners and painting my face red, white, and blue.

If government (and my fellow voters) would just leave me alone, I wouldn't be involved.

But they just wouldn't leave me alone, and fighting back is more fun with the support of others.

IMissLiberty

"Bread and Circus."

I'm a huge Dallas Cowboy fan, but last Sunday, the first game of the season, I went to a rally in Linden, Texas for Texas Sovereingty instead of watching the game.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
-Sam Adams

What a great attention gitter - Ron Paul deserves it!

Long ago disposed of sports as my #1 priority, but still enjoy my football.

that shit ain't nothin....

try meeting the woman of your dreams........and for the first year of your relationship.......you don't know nothing......

no 9/11....
no waco......
no no moon landings.....

and ain't no fed reserve all creepin into yer mind n shit at night.......

yeah and so a year and half or so after you meet.....you find all this shit out.

you got 18 months of bliss....
and then your life was just a pawn for another's game.

we are all having to console ourselves and eachother daily....

daily paul is part of that.

but bringing others to the movement is so much more important than most anything i can think of. definitely don't let a good love go wrong.

i never liked football.
ron paul didn't ruin just one thing.

and anyway.......as you well know.....ron paul didn't ruin anything at all.

I am a die hard or I guess used to be a die hard Philly fan. Whithin the past two years though I have not followed as much or been interested in the Phillies, Eagles, FLyers, etc.... I still watch and try to go to Phillies games and an Eagles game or 2 every season but you are right. I am sick and tired of people so devoted, distracted by sports they fail to understand or take the time to see whats going on with our country.

My roomate is a prime example. Watches TV every day, caught up in multiple fantasy football leagues, non-stop ESPN viewing. I'll ask him to come to Campaign for Liberty meetings, or give him websites, articles, documentaries to check out but to no avail.

Sports offer a great distraction and releif from the real world stress and also teach kids values but with anything in life you have to keep it in perspective and find a healthy balance.

Ron Paul 2012

OMG I feel the same way about my 2 favorites, baseball and football! I look at them now like the distractions the Romans gave their citizens, while the Empire went down the rat hole. I am not po'd, but I miss those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer and fall sports, for sure.

Yes, I occasionally watch TV shows. Yes, I'll watch football during the playoffs. Sometimes I'll even watch a blockbuster movie. Why? Because after a long crappy day, sometimes I just want mindless relaxation and stress relief. We are not robots; even Dr. Paul would agree that regular stress relief is an important part of maintaining your health. If you spend every waking hour reading and complaining about the various ways the government screws us over, then you'll go through life depressed, angry, and miserable. That's detrimental to your health, and you're not going to be of much use to the movement when you're riddled with health problems and too sick to do anything.

There is nothing wrong with TV, sports, football, movies, or other forms of entertainment when taken in moderation. It only becomes a problem when you let them take over your life at the expense of your family, education, health, and political awareness.

I too am in the same boat. Played football through college, knew espn and stats like the back of my hand and now, can't even tell you who's doing what and ranked where....

Couldn't be happier!

American policy > entertainment.

I want people to know that this is what happens. I say it all the time. Every year I watched the Oscars even had a few parties but after I saw Freedom to Fascism and saw Ron Paul in the doc and knew he was running for president I started doing my research . Now? I could care one whit who wins what... there is way too much to be concerned about.

dude u shoulda took the blue pill

he's ruined it for us all, :p

I think its A-ok to appreciate and want to watch some of the greatest athletes on earth doing their thing. I see what your saying though. Sports seem a bit less important. I'm all for waking up as many sheeple as possible and being aware of whats going on, but don't be too hard on yourself.

I'd still be playing video games and reading comics all the time.

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It's like seeing people at work, at PC computers, playing virtual solitaire.

It's a rampant mental disease.

(They should be killing time on Daily Paul.)

Even though I met some of the great guys from NASCAR back in the day..I just never been a fan of sports..I always liked history better..but now..I look at a program on history channel..and I start to wonder...what truth was hidden from us about this..(example..Im watching something about the Templars now) are they keeping from us?...Where does the truth stop and the lie start?
Also if people tell me their sick..or going to the doctor..I push herbs and warn them..DONT TAKE THE FLU SHOT...and because I own a chat room...I am not just telling Americans..but...Brits..Irish..Welch..Scots..Kiwi's (NZ)...Aussies..Canadians......needless to say..I have lost a lot of people that use to come in..but..there are those whos attention I get..the sites..like the DP..are being past on...for those non Americans who see the videos I pass to them..or read something I tell them they should check out...they are now looking at the faults in their own governments..and doing research...I think its great

Freedom is another way to God...A corrupt government is a straight way to hell.

I used to be a big sports fan, but abandoned it about ten years ago when our county commissioners stuck us with a bill for two new stadiums by increasing our county sales tax. After much money was wasted, the taxpayers voted out the main advocate of the tax (Bob Bedinghaus). Then the Bengals hired him as a consultant or something.

Now I look back on it and I am glad that I don't waste time on such things anymore. It should be the politicians and owners of the teams that you are angry at, not Ron Paul.

but getting Peed on by the government

I used to be so absorbed in the sports scene, knowing everything about every team, that being the number 1 topic on my mind. Now when I'm at the bar and all people can do is argue or talk about sports it really gets to me. Like you said, I feel like it's nothing but a distraction, and EVERYONE falls right into it. After realizing that 9/11 was an inside job while in college a few years ago, I began researching more and more on the issues in our country and totally changed my outlook on what sports are in America. The people of the US have an unhealthy OBSESSION with sports, and I'm with you, I feel like it is no accident that we are encouraged to support such mindless activities. Don't get me wrong, I am an athlete and was when I was younger, but why do we put such emphasis on our children to play sports, watch sports, be good at sports? Why isn't more emphasis put on what the Hubble Telescope has just discovered?

Go Redskins and Hokies

The public schools are in essence their free training camps where we spend millions to produce just one professional player - and who make the money off of it? Talk about corporate welfare!