Felonious Python
Minor League Degenerate
- Aug 20, 2004
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I generally find fighting sort of boring overall. If there's some emotion to it, then I can find it engaging.Fighting is entertaining (setting aside BJ Crombeen "hold on for dear life" type of fighting).
The consequences of fighting are immense, however, and that's where the issue gets. I get hyped during a fight all the time because I'm a giant man-child. But I also think the league should ban it because CTE, concussions, and the lingering effects are inhumane.
Like I'm sure gladiatorial fights were a f***ing gas back in the day. Dude fighting a tiger? That's probably entertaining as hell at a base level. Doesn't mean we should bring it back.
The point of why I posted it is because I'm seeing an increasing gap between social media and reality. I remember a few years ago the Solar Bears gained a sponsorship from a local dog track (this was before Floridians voted to ban dog racing). The fanbase absolutely hated the sponsorship, but all of these people came out of absolutely nowhere to astroturf the hell out of it, and how they were such big fans now (and then we never saw them again).
A Twitter mob says that fighting is done for, and some people in the media will actually believe them, but you look at how the people in the crowds respond, and it doesn't comport with reality. The structure of the pro game itself still demands it.
I don't like what Tom Wilson does, but I like the concept of Tom Wilson as a meta hockey player. Pushing boundaries to absurd levels where reality breaks.