That BS article that was instantly debunked - Energizer straight up said NO - has lingered this whole season as a talking point around diminished attendance.
The League needs to get its head out of the sand and buy in to the STL market if it’s not too late. Unleash ads and ticket incentives and events to pack out the lower bowl as a minimum.
@SaffronSalem There was something truly special about enjoying those Mtn Dew collabs while playing the game.
Went through many a 12 pack of the Halo collabs with the boys back in the day.
Fresh off a playoff loss for third year in a row at home - it sucks. People are emotional about the loss, but it’s also always just icing on the cake after yet another season of top attendance without much to show for it.
Local marketing sucks, attendance is down, ticket prices remain high for our market, and season ticket holders pay premiums for a reserved seat and nothing more.
It’s more than just another home playoff loss it feels like another eroding backwards step for our fanbase and our league.
One of the big reasons for the current lack of patriotism and pride in our nation’s history is that about 40 years ago our most prominent storytellers in Hollywood just basically stopped telling stories about American history altogether, unless it has something to do with WW2, civil rights, or slavery. I mean they just released a movie about the meteorologist who did the weather report for D-Day. They’ll give WW2 weathermen their own movies before they tell a story from any other era of American history.
The Right has attempted to counteract this a little bit, but “conservative” attempts at American history films and TV shows are invariably hokey and kid friendly, the kind of thing you can watch with your grandmother and your 5 year old, and you’ll all be equally informed and bored by the experience.
We need R-rated adult-oriented American history stories. Daniel Boone should have his own series. It would be gritty and violent and not for children, but it would also be phenomenally entertaining and put an American legend back on the cultural map, so to speak. The fact that Daniel Boone hasn’t been depicted on screen at all since like the 60s is a travesty. Throw a dart at that guy’s Wikipedia page and you’ll land on something that could be its own feature length trilogy.
That’s just one example. How is there not a great R-rated movie or series about Antietam? Or Kit Carson? Or the Panama Canal? How does Theodore Roosevelt not have like 10 movies about different periods of his life?
You could go much farther back to pre-American history. A movie about Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan would be tremendous and horrifying and fascinating, and it would introduce into the public consciousness one of the world’s most incredible stories that most Americans know next to nothing about. And on and on.
The possibilities are literally endless. All of these movies, if they’re executed to even a B+ level, could make hundreds of millions of dollars and transform the culture in a way that a million podcast monologues never could. If the Right actually wants to reclaim the culture, this is the place to start.
Thomas Massie is exactly the kind of citizen-leader the Founders envisioned.
The man who beat him is purely a creature of foreign interests, exactly what George Washington warned about in his farewell address.
Happy 250th.
@AP4Liberty Do you want Rand Paul to bow down and suck the toes of the Orange Man? Is that how we “save him”?
It’s so disappointing seeing what has become of your political beliefs. You seem more interested in saying “I knew Massie would lose” than even lamenting it.
Liberty lost.
Let’s not forget that Thomas Massie was the only Republican member of Congress to vote against the SAVE Act.
Today is Election Day. Today is the day to send a message by firing Thomas Massie.
Polls are open until 6 PM. Every vote matters.
This is disappointing.
JD Vance attacks Thomas Massie, claiming he always votes against “the party” and he did it at a Turning Point event of all places.
1. Charlie Kirk supported Thomas Massie and would have been opposed to Trump primarying him with Israel funding.
2. Massie votes against “the party” when the party is trying to pass BAD America Last legislation like funding foreign wars, protecting poisons like glyphosate and covid vaccines, violating our second amendment, hurting small farmers and small businesses and creators with patents, and empowering the surveillance state.
3. Thomas Massie is not the problem.
“The Party” is the problem.
And demanding loyalty to “the party” is the most repulsive cult behavior we’ve ever seen in American politics.
You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.
That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.
Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.
A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.