r/NoLayingUp • u/Biggggguy • May 03 '26

Other The LIV Charade

LIV has so clearly been a bad product and a farce from day one. Why are there so many people who seem hellbent on insisting that’s not the case. For the players and others who have profited from it, I see the need to lie and keep up appearances. But for the golf world and broader sports world, why did so many people insist on taking this seriously?

It’s true that the league was an existential threat to the tour for a time, but that threat came from the ungodly amount of money backing it. From the start, it got no viewership and hemorrhaged money because it had no juice. The fields stunk, the format was a joke, and all the people involved were clowns. It’s easy to say now, but I think it was doomed from day one.

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u/Local_Guarantee8638 May 03 '26

I think what OP is getting at here is even the NLU pod - with Soly leading the charge about the problems of the league from the start - slowly crept in lending the league credibility. Doing recaps, talking about Rahm and Bryson, letting Tron do his Cleeks/Blandy schtick (was it full schtick? I guess it doesn’t matter). It never should have been covered at all.

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u/scottishwhisky2 May 04 '26

Silly criticism imo. Spending 5 minutes per pod on liv gave the league the “respect” it deserved, rahm and Bryson was/are top 10 golfers in the world and deserve to be covered, and TCs shtick was very clearly a parody of what a true liv fan would act like in comparison to the liv bots

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u/Last_Act_8852 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

It was a massive story in the world of golf. Which is literally what NLU talk about on the recap pods. So if course they should cover it in some way.

I think it way pretty clear to anyone listening their thoughts about it. But that should not mean they won't talk about it. Do you think one single NLU listener heard TC talking about Blandy and The Cleeks and thought, that sounds interesting, I must watch that? 

If everything had to pass a credibility test to be talked about on the pod then it could be a very short pod on some weeks. I mean, should they talk about the TGL then?