You forgot to name the women soccer players, NHL hockey players, tennis players, soccer players, skiing, snowboard...many of which already have very outspoken athletes about social injustice.
Imagine if they all got together and just shut it down...everything shut down at the same time. You're going to see more White skin protesters hitting the streets in support of their athletes because they know the ones that are complaining...
Don't truly support the sport nor care about it (e.g. primadonnas).
Multi-million dollar athletes can endure a financial shutdown...more than regular people trying to endure a economic shutdown via a Pandemic.
Just be happy that they only sent the world a warning shot and its not a full shut down if you're serious about sports. Many of which can go out of country to other countries and still make a lot of money...something the owners understand and learned from the MLB and NHL strikes in recent past...
By the way, after the 1936 Olympics (Hitler's Olympics)...the Olympic committee made a pledge to never compete if there's social injustice in the hosting country, racism like that again in a country...although its been clarified the last few Olympic games...
They will either boycott or move it to another "friendly" location similar to million dollar athletes saying if they're not safe or their families not safe or they just want give the country a Bid for the Olympics...
The Olympics go elsewhere from the offending country.
After they do that...Universities will go broke and then shut down because they're dependent upon the revenue that's generated from their sports unless students are willing to pay 5 - 10x more for their education than what they currently pay just to compensate for the University lost income.
My point, sports is more interconnected into society than you think. Get rid of the sports...you're getting rid of other things too such as paying 5 - 10x more for your kids college education.
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