If you were a NASCAR fan, would you be interested in televised “expert commentary” by a fifteen-year-old without a drivers’ license who has never driven a car?  If you were a hockey fan, would you be interested in the opinions about the sport of someone  from say, Jamaica, who had never played hockey?  Would you take golf lessons from someone who had never swung a club himself?

I assume millions of Americans would probably answer “Yes” to these questions in light of the fact that every single one of the sideline interviewers of players and coaches on both NFL and college football, is a young female who has never for one minute of her life played football.  Every single one, without exception.  Is there a better example of the rot of egalitarianism and gender-based hiring quotas by the television networks?

Of course, the alternative hypothesis would be that it’s only business:  American men would not watch football unless they could catch that last, end-of-the-game question to the coach by the young hottie (i.e., “how did you feel when your kicker missed that field goal?; or “What’s it feel like to come back and win a game like this?”)  If this is their business model, then I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona that I’d like to sell to NFL owners.

Golf is one televised sport that has not yet succumbed to this PC nonsense.  The female commentators there are all very well-accomplished current or former professional golfers themselves, not former fashion models or Miss Americas.

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