What would village idiots do without villages?

It remains an underplayed, perversely comical episode at the
junction of sports and their unyielding devotion to combine with
the lowest forms of rap music, as if one can no longer exist
without the other.

Thus in October 2019, the University of Kansas apologized for
inviting often-arrested, N-wording, women-objectifying
pornographer Snoop Dogg, of late a Roger Goodell-approved invite
to �entertain� at the Super Bowl � the latest in a selection of
Goodell�s Greatest Gutter Halftime Hits � to kick off the
school�s basketball season.

At a KU in-arena rally for the men�s and women�s teams, Mr.
Dogg, as if essential to the night�s purpose, performed his
stock-in-trade: vulgar music and crotch-aimed skits, including
strip club-borrowed pole dancing, also featured and performed �
as per NFL invite � by Jennifer Lopez at Super Bowl LIV in
February 2020, except Mr. Dogg�s KU show included a make-it-rain
money shower.

Then KU had to pretend to be distressed and surprised that Mr.
Dogg did what he does. Athletic director Jeff Long expressed his
revulsion at what anyone with a partial clue would have known to
expect:

�We apologize to anyone who was offended by the Snoop Dogg
performance. � We made it clear to the entertainer�s managers
that we expected a clean version of the show and took additional
steps to communicate to our fans, including moving the artist to
the final act of the evening, to ensure that no basketball
activities would be missed if anyone did not want to stay for
his show.

�I take full responsibility for not thoroughly vetting all the
details of the performance and offer my personal apology to
those who were offended. We strive to create a family atmosphere
at Kansas and fell short of that this evening.�

From the movie, �Who Knew?� Snoop Dogg�s shows don�t include
clean versions.

In 2017, the NHL, appealing to the low and desensitized, had Mr.
Dogg perform at its All-Star festivities. Naturally, he put on a
vulgarity-filled show. The NHL, as the NHL does, pretended it
didn�t occur. NBCSN apologized for the NHL�s lack of discretion.

So last week, there was an apology from the ESPN Manning
Brothers for inviting and indulging the steady mumble of
profanities that casually spilled from guest star Marshawn Lynch
during their �alternative� �Monday Night Football� show.

Lynch clearly didn�t care that he was on live national TV. He
was being true to his classless character � the one that brought
him fame, acclaim, honors and emulation for grabbing his crotch
as he scored touchdowns.

ESPN didn�t warn them away from Lynch? Stupid question. ESPN
selectively covets such attention. The Mannings had no idea?
Grown men, they could have stopped Lynch with his first crudity,
but they didn�t. They waited until Lynch was done and gone.

So we�re again moved to ask: �Where are we going?� �Why are we
headed there?� and �What�s the upside?� Why must we always be
headed down, even while our sports and their TV networks
continue campaigns imploring us to treat one another with
greater respect and dignity, especially as they relate to race?

Lynch is an NFL version of Snoop Dogg, parlaying rank public
anti-social behavior into successful business. (See: Snoop Dogg
commercial endorsement deals, now including endless Corona beer
ads.)

His crotch-grabbing career � the NFL Store sold a framed photo
collage that included one of him in the act � which included
misdemeanor pleas after a DUI arrest and another for illegal
possession of a gun, was quickly followed by starring roles in
Subway sandwich ads and an appointment by the NFLPA as its
�first-ever chief brand ambassador.�

Gee, wonder who finished second to Lynch in the NFLPA�s
selection?

In 2020, Princeton�s senior class invited Lynch to be its Class
Day speaker, citing his �sustained professional excellence� to
fulfill �our goal � to invite a speaker who embodies the various
experiences we have shared as a community during our Princeton
tenure; someone whose professional and personal passions speak
to the service-focused and intellectually rigorous interests
core to the University.�

Yes, all Princeton grads should aspire to the bar set so high by
Marshawn Lynch, who the senior class� invite emphasized is a
social activist and role model.

COVID-19 put an end to that wishful, nauseating con. But it�s
all a con, many more to come.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/30/no-more-apologies-for-booking-
vulgar-snoop-dogg-marshawn-lynch/