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the other day I actually pulled up a a quote from George Orwell who uh granted this is from Wikipedia which the other day I looked up something that I knew something about and was completely inaccurate but this is according to Wikipedia George Orwell said serious sport has nothing to do with Fair Play It's a bound up it's bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic Pleasures Pleasures in witnessing violence in other words it's War minus the shooting exactly now why the [ __ ] would you bring a child to that and not only that when was George Orwell alive a long [ __ ] time ago I don't know when he was alive when did he write in 1984 He didn't write it in ' 83 I know that he wrote in like the 30s didn't he I'm just saying see that's how he described Sports back then so guys like you know these Billy Crystal guys who always do those little heartwarming stories about uh you know their baseball cards and going down to the baseball stadium and acting like it was this [ __ ] you know this time that was lost you know George Orwell right there according to Wikipedia

Bill Burr quotes George Orwell on the nature of sports and mentions his book '1984' while discussing when the author was alive.

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