Imagine thousands of people were sneaking into Phoenix Suns games without tickets. The management would quickly crack down on the "undocumented spectators." Security personnel would engage in "profiling" - singling out younger male fans wandering around without obvious seats. They would want to see some "papers" - ticket stubs. Those lacking documentation would be deported out of the arena, or, in some cases, arrested.
So while millionaire athletes become walking billboards for a political cause, the state of Arizona might want to review the terms of its relationship with the Suns. If Mr. Sarver wants to use his team to push a political agenda, perhaps citizens can push back. Imagine Phoenix residents channeling the spirits of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by turning up en masse to Suns games, sneaking in without tickets, demanding special services like free food and access to box seats, overtaxing arena security and ruining the game for the people with tickets. They can call it a celebration of diversity.
Also running up and down the court of hypocrisy, lying and theft, Robert Sarver, the knucklehead owner of the "Los Soles" (Los Suns is just stupid in addition to just wrong) took from American citizens $140 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to bail our his banks. He could have sold Los Soles and bailed his banks out.
We turn to sports for entertainment, release and escape from out busy, harried, stressful lives. I don't watch anywhere close to the amount of sports I did when I was younger, and perhaps we all might start thinking about doing the same as a matter personal action against a bunch of multi-millionaire jocks and owners that use their platform to ram their uninformed political views down our throats. What if they had a playoff and nobody came. Shut up sing. Shut up and act. Shut up and run. Shut up and jump. Shut up and throw.
Lakers Coach Phil Jackson: "Am I crazy, or am I the only one that heard [the legislature] say 'we just took the United States immigration law and adapted it to our state.' "
"I don't think teams should get involved in the political stuff. And I think this one's still kind of coming out to balance as to how it's going to be favorably looked upon by our public. If I heard it right the American people are really for stronger immigration laws, if I'm not mistaken. Where we stand as basketball teams, we should let that kind of play out and let the political end of that go where it's going to go."
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