'F--- Sister Jean'

The NBA's raging popularity with millennials is fascinating to me.

 

Tats and beards.

 

To be fair, Mother Teresa was kind of an asshole.

 

Maybe. Maybe not.

But connected or disconnected from the set-up, he finds the Tweet - the punchline - obscene and unfunny.

As would some of those hypothetical listeners I mentioned at the Buffalo Wild Wings.

A further observation about this: sarcasm almost never works in print.

 

You are entertaining the possibility that the lead sports columnist at the Chicago Tribune who has been covering Loyola daily during its run did not understand what the context was for a Knoxville radio host, in the moments immediately after Loyola's dramatic victory over No. 3 seed Tennessee, to post: "Fuck Sister Jean."

 

Sincerely: Do you like basketball?

 

A great deal.

 

I'm saying it does not matter.

That he finds the punchline obscene and unfunny is what prompts his response.

 

Just not college or the NBA?

 

I'm not sure I understand the line of questioning.

It's interesting to me that the NBA is as popular as it is among millennials, as compared to its popularity among other demographics, and as compared to other sports.

 

I assumed that when you questioned why millennials like the NBA, you were implying you didn't like it yourself. That appears to be an incorrect assumption.

 

No, I just meant that they have really taken to it while my generation does little but bitch and moan about it and brag about how they "don't care about the NBA anymore."

It seems millennials went directly from pretending to still enjoy "Harry Potter" novels to actually enjoying the NBA. Very smooth transition.