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SAS can eat a dick

While the idea that SAS holds any position legitimately is kind of laughable, there is an underlying narrative here. He's saying this to articulate a very common and unhealthy attitude that professional sports is somehow a nobler calling than any other and that living out fans' vicarious fantasies is some moral obligation. The fact that he said it undoubtedly means a lot of people, most of them men, feel it.

I'm in some ways basic AF about things like pro sports. I enjoy them despite a whole host of underlying issues. Still, I always try to segregate what I feel as a fan from what these people, some of whom have never known anything other than a toxic pressure cooker of a lifestyle, actually need and feel for themselves. If somebody wants to bail four games into a season, or in training camp like Andrew Luck, then so be it; clearly whatever they were dealing with was intense enough to override a lifetime of SAS'es telling them how they are supposed to think about their chosen profession. If there's any upside to the obscene amount of money the stars make -- apart from the fact that it annoys their billionaire employers to give it to them -- it's that it should allow them to be free to make their own decisions.

It's time Smith reevaluates his hot take-first approach and considers the consequences of his actions.

Narrator: He will not.