Day 253

• In the continuing impossibility of football in a pandemic...  Today's marquee matchup between Clemson and Florida State was called off.  At least one Clemson player has additionally tested positive, and team had traveled to Tallahassee before the positive was confirmed and the game called off.  FUCKING STUPID!!!   
• The Masters on CBS early on Sunday was a ratings boon...  for the early NFL games on FOX.  60-70% increases in viewers for the early game of the doubleheader, and the most watched Sunday window of any kind in almost four years (Week 16 2016, according to Sports Media Watch).
• The FOX nationals were down 20% ratings and 13% viewers.
• The CBS single which followed the Masters was down 35% ratings and 30% viewers.
• Sunday Night Football was down 31% in both measures.
• Monday Night Football was down 28% in viewers.
  
• Let me put it simply:  White America Has Spoken And Is Sick Of Black-Dominated Sports.
• I'm sorry, and I do not say this in support of that position, but the numbers don't lie.  The #NFLBoycott to either end or bleach professional football has done 20-30% FURTHER damage to the NFL's ratings.  I am reminded of that one survey, stating the only group with increasing interest in football was the White Mr. Quarterback crowd (White, college-educated...).
• And now thought on Deadspin that New Orleans deciding to pass over Jameis Winston to a White quarterback with Drew Brees out injured with ribs cracked and a collapsed lung may be racially motivated.      
• A contestant on the show Wipeout for next season passed away earlier in the week after completing one of the show's obstacle courses. 
• Ominous rumor from sources telling Yardbarker the National Football League is anticipating a severe post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 spike.  Wouldn't be inconsistent with what we're seeing, but ominous all the same.