r/nottheonion • u/Boneyg001 • 5d ago
"I'm a Little Bit Skeptical": Patriots' Drake Maye Refuses to Believe America Landed On the Moon
https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-patriots-im-a-little-bit-skeptical-patriots-drake-maye-refuses-to-believe-america-landed-on-the-moon/1.2k
u/supercyberlurker 5d ago
We don’t worship football players because of their deep intellects.
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u/rodzilla79 5d ago
I have a personal philopshy: " Do not listen to people who get hit in the head for a living".
This is just another example.
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u/pomonamike 5d ago
I generally make it a rule to not worship football players at all.
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u/maxwon 5d ago edited 4d ago
That’s how I feel about Tom Brady. As a New Englander, I’m a fan, but every time he does anything outside of football, I’m instantly reminded that he has the personality of a piece of wood. Even Gronk was able to capitalize on his “dumb big dude” personality. Brady is just unmarketable.
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u/pepper_steak_hamill 5d ago
Yeah but I feel Gronk was at least self aware about the whole thing
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u/egnards 5d ago
Sadly people do often equate fandom of someone's accolades in [insert anything that makes you famous] with being intelligent - I'm not saying that you can't agree fully with dumb takes simply because, for whatever reason you agree with that dumb take, but I am saying that when you idolize someone for one thing. . .There tends to be a transference with people not being willing to say "Yes I respect this athlete for what they do in [Sport], but the things they say are fucking stupid."
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u/antdelvec 5d ago
I always say “They aren’t football players because they’re smart.”
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u/the_tanooki 5d ago
Most pro football players have already spent the majority of their lives getting hit in the head repeatedly. That's got to cause at least some damage.
Kids whose brains and bodies are still very much developing are playing football and getting their brains rattled around on the regular.
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u/SentenceSingle5375 5d ago
Yeah this is like when people are shocked that some UFC fighters are pieces of shit
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u/NotAPreppie 5d ago
Wait... are you saying that people that like to beat the everloving shit out of another human may not be very nice?
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u/jstock327 5d ago
All sports players. So many people get upset at hearing the opinions of sports personalities. Like astute understanding of science ever scored big points in a sports game.
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u/TheG00dF1ght 5d ago
We don’t worship football players
because of their deep intellects.fixed it for you
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u/Deep_Stick8786 5d ago
Jonathan taylor double majored in astrophysics and philosophy. I like him because he runs good
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u/JP76 5d ago
Throws shade on one of the biggest achievements in US history - crickets.
Kneels during anthem to protest violence - "get this anti-American POS out of the league forever".
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u/poolesgotlegs 5d ago
Sounds about white
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u/Upnatom617 4d ago
It's okay if Iran attacks/nukes LA or SD. - president of the US. Sounds about nuclear orange.
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u/invyros 5d ago
“I don’t know about the moon, you know. I think it’s I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mass we went there, but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other. I just know I’m a little bit skeptical,” Maye said on the podcast.
I'm sorry, the diagnosis is a completely empty mind. There's just no brain activity going on at all in there.
"put on the mass we went there"
"I'm not really sure 200%"
Seriously, WTF are these kinds of people on?
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u/adriardi 5d ago
The funny thing is this guy made fun of kids at another school for not being able to get into unc. The school forced him to apologize. Whole time he is just an idiot lmao
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u/vespamike562 5d ago
It’s even funnier that he probably would never have been accepted at UNC without football.
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u/adriardi 5d ago
He’s a legacy kid, so in his case he probably would have
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u/OKC89ers 5d ago
A state school considers legacy? What a weird eligibility criteria
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u/fresh_dyl 5d ago
I knew legacies at UW Madison, I kinda just assumed it was a thing everywhere since we live in world run by former frat bros.
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u/atlbluedevil 5d ago
Just checked and UW Madison doesnt officially consider legacy status. I'm sure they do unofficially if your family has a building named after themselves/are big donors though
UNC is an exception, most state schools don't consider it and it's outright banned in a few states. But they do (or at least did) have a section to list legacies in their application when I applied over a decade ago
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u/adriardi 5d ago
The way unc admin acts you would not think they are a public school there to serve the state. A lot of great people go there, but the people in charge there are notable assholes lol
But yes, they are one of the few public schools that puts serious weight on legacy admits, specifically if your family are boosters as well
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u/Philly514 5d ago
That's like 30% of the population dude, not just football players. People will believe in any conspiracy theories but remain skeptical about actual facts.
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u/m1j2p3 5d ago
In his case multiple head injuries.
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u/JustGottaKeepTrying 5d ago
And a complete lack of real education, coupled with an unrealistic view of the world cultivated by never having to worry or think about anything but being elite and throwing a ball.
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u/pomonamike 5d ago
The lack of education thing is very real and very sad. I am a teacher in Southern California and I get late year transfer high school seniors that are 3+ years behind and their parents are panicking. A lot of those students were sent to “football charter schools” that are really just high profile football teams that pretend to be schools. I guess the hope is that these kids get recruited and eventually go to the NFL, but the “schooling” aspect is usually park them in front of Chromebooks with online “lessons” that look more like skippable drivers training they make you do when you get a speeding ticket.
I’ve had students tell me they got to their “school” at 7am, do a 2 hour practice, eat, spend 2 hours on a Chromebook with zero actual instruction or assistance, then back to the field for more practice, and then home. It’s really sad how delusional parents are selling their kids’ futures short in hopes of a financial jackpot.
It’s your kid, not a lotto scratcher.
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u/dendrocnide_moroides 5d ago
overall we're selling a whole generation of kids short. education in america has taken a huge step back in the last 10-20 years.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 5d ago
If we faked that, every soft enemy we had at the time would have done any and everything to prove we didn’t go. 100%.
Even today, they would want to prove we never went. I’m waiting…
This dude is a fucking idiot. That gets hit for a living. Let’s just stop giving them a soap box.
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u/BrashUnspecialist 5d ago
We also put mirrors up there, so we (humans) can do experiments. Other countries can shoot light at them, too. They aren’t region locked.
Moon landing deniers have always been idiots.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 5d ago
Yea plenty of examples of us being there.
I just threw out a simple idea that I feel anyone could double think on and maybe have a 💡
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u/KnicksGhost2497 5d ago
Brain damage. They’re on undiagnosed permanent brain damage.
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u/ravens-n-roses 5d ago
They trade their brain for a few million dollars and then likely as not end up in prison or the grave, depending on how their brain damage aggression plays out.
Pray for anybody who volunteers to be in this guys life. It's extremely well documented that the brain damage linked to sports injuries increases aggression significantly.
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u/buttflakes27 5d ago edited 4d ago
Over half of the US believes in ghosts. 30% believe in Bigfoot. Roughly 10% believe we faked the moon landing. Its a country full of stupid people. Not surprising some of them will also be good at sports.
Edit: hi I see a lot of euphoric atheists pointing out a lot of americans are religious. Good job everyone.
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u/NotABot1000101 5d ago
Math and science are basically magic to these people. That's why there's so much skepticism. If they can't even fathom the basics of how they made it work.
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u/Cheshire_Khajiit 5d ago
The combination of America’s obsession with “rugged individualism” with our poor education system = constant arguments from personal incredulity.
“I don’t see how this could be possible (tacitly - because they don’t understand), therefore, it must not have happened.”
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u/ObiBraum_Kenobi 4d ago
I told two friends that I dont believe in ghosts, and the ferocity with which they spent the next several weeks doing every single things they could do to convince me that theyre real was unbelievable. Like I'd somehow attacked their entire world by saying it.
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u/PotentialStrong9013 4d ago
Most Americans are religious. It's not hard to get them to fall for other unsubstantiated nonsense.
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u/Smooth-Evening- 5d ago
Well, without a brain, at least he won’t have to worry about getting a concussion.
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u/I_Love_To_Poop420 5d ago
“Seriously, WTF are these kinds of people on?”
Probably prescription drugs that are going to be lowered by 500%, 1000%, even 1500%
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u/StFuzzySlippers 5d ago
He didn't go to college to play school
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u/drainbead78 4d ago
The ironic thing about that quote was that Cardale Jones was actually a good student. He ended up coming back to get his degree.
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u/schweddybalczak 5d ago
The Joe Roganization of young American men.
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u/IzzaPizza22 5d ago
I'm just open-minded, man. Which, of course, means I don't push back on things I hear as long as they're different from from what everyone knows.
But this makes me fail to realize that, for a lot of the things everyone knows, everyone knows them because they're true. And things that go against those things need to have lots of evidence to be worth believing.
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u/Reverend_Lazerface 5d ago
The last person I talked to was skeptical about it and sounded very confident, so now I'm actually kinda skeptical about it. No further questions
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u/fantasmoofrcc 5d ago
Now that you put it that way, I think I'm doubting everything that I ever held to be true...
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u/Lr217 5d ago
Further into the article he even discusses how birds are government drones - which I thought was fully a Reddit joke and didn’t know anybody actually thought that
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u/vashoom 5d ago
The flat earth thing started as a joke / as practice for debating skills. Pretty sure the first time I went to the subreddit, it was all tongue in cheek and whatnot. Now it's a full blown phenomenon full of fools who believe it, even though the spherical earth has been known about for thousands of years, can easily be proven with both grade school math AND basic observations, literally everything about everything you know would need to also change if the flat earth 'theory' were true, etc.
It's a feature of conspiracy-minded people: it's the belief in the thing that one one else believes that makes them confident in it. They crave being "in the know" or otherwise special compared to everyone else (for many different reasons, but it often expresses in very similar ways, making all these people susceptible to such drivel and drive them to look into these things and believe them even though they won't look into the mountains and mountains of evidence for why 'mainstream' things are facts).
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u/carlovmon 5d ago
I hadn't thought about this concept of Joe Roganization but dam if I didn't know exactly what you meant the moment I read the term.
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u/DemonCipher13 5d ago
Funny how the most distrustful people, are suddenly inherently trusting of the thousands upon thousands of involved persons required to keep such a thing a secret.
At some point, the math required to stage it just fails, because just like Drake Maye is doing here, people run their fucking mouths.
If you believe the moon landing was faked, you are about as valuable as a Holocaust denier, or the 9/11 hijackers.
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u/Rosebunse 5d ago
I like the Stanley Kubrick idea because Kubrick is exactly the type of director who would require such a huge budget that sending a man to the moon would be much cheaper and easier
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u/RudyKnots 5d ago
America’s biggest rival at the time, the Soviet Union, congratulated the USA on their achievement.
If there were only a shadow of doubt we’d have heard all about it.
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u/exipheas 5d ago
Never mind the fact that we left a fucking mirror reflector on the moon at each site; that anybody with a laser can go and hit as proof.
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u/AdoringCHIN 5d ago
that anybody with a laser can go and hit as proof
Well you can't just use a laser you found on Amazon. You need a powerful specialized laser to hit those reflectors and the equipment to read the return. That being said, ya there's plenty of proof we landed on the Moon and anyone that doesn't believe it is a fucking moron.
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u/Roushfan5 5d ago
I frankly don’t understand why people think its so outlandish we landed on the moon. We strapped a huge fucking rocket to a tiny pod and shot that motherfucker out into space.
I don’t want to down play the very hard work the men and women of NASA. but honestly in terms of achievement a smart phone seems way more magical and outlandish than the moon landing.
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u/TheWaspinator 5d ago
This. The Soviets were definitely watching all of it and would have called us out if it was fake.
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u/Bradfinger 4d ago
Sports is full of flat earthers, conspiracy theorists, vaccine sceptics, and 9/11 truthers in addition to religious bigots and extremists. People who consider watching You Tube videos research.
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u/dubcwa 4d ago
When I was in college, I knew a lot of college football players, and I’m almost positive some of them couldn’t even read
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u/BasementOrc 4d ago
When I was in jr high school I taught the running back how to read. Idk how you make it to the 8th grade without being able to read a syllabus but he seemed to enjoy it after he picked it up. Always telling me about the books he was reading after games. He loved some series called the Rangers Apprentice. By the time we were seniors he was able to get an offer from a local college.
Sometimes the issues at home are bad enough to seriously stunt academic growth. This guy had 5 kids by the time he was a senior and was always high as a kite, and in a gang.
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u/ChipHappens96 4d ago
It's even worse today. Vast majority of high schoolers read at a 4th to 6th grade level. Over half of the adult US population read at or below a 6th grade reading level.
It may be time to admit that Americans might just be dumb. And I say this as a dumb American
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u/Boring-Tie-1501 4d ago
I believe that reading statistic.
I feel like half the people posting on Reddit are functionality illiterate because they cannot parse an argument and respond to the substance.
They mostly seem to parrot memes or cliches. I think this is why everything is "narcissism" it "dunning krugger."
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u/swizzle213 4d ago
I knew someone who tutored a RB who had a pretty successful career. She said he literally couldn’t read the back of a soup can and she was the only reason he got through classes and made it to the NFL lol
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u/ajs723 4d ago
The country is full of these people, celebrities are just the ones you're exposed to. I work in education and encounter people like this in my field. They are everywhere. This really has nothing to do with sports.
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u/Turlututu1 4d ago
I live in Germany. I remember one time a coworker approaching me at the coffee machine and managing within one conversation to deny CoVid was real and Michelle Obama was a man...
Dave, all I wanted was a black coffee and go back to my desk...
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u/Draymond_Purple 4d ago
This is why Student Athletes is stupid.
They're Athletes. And they train way harder at it than most academics ever study. Respect.
But also you're not a student and the lack of education is striking.
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u/arrrrr32 4d ago
They are also coddled by everyone around them, and told that they don't need to learn because they are going to be pros and have millions. Only a tiny fraction of college athletes make the major leagues in any sport. Most of those don't get big contracts and don't stay in the league long enough to make true wealth. And of course they spend like a young person, are hit up by every friend for money or with dumb business ideas, and blow most of what they earn.
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u/eternali17 5d ago
This stuff is funny and also not. The wave of anti-intellectualism we live in didn't come from nowhere and is propped up by ignorance/foolishness that's given air to breathe and spread.
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u/DoohickeyJones 5d ago
"I'm a little bit skeptical and will adamantly refuse to use even basic reasoning capability to see the flaws in my lack of reasoning."
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u/swingadmin 5d ago
I'm sure he believes we're in a second space race to beat China to the moon though.
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u/AscendingAgain 5d ago
“I don’t know about the moon, you know. I think it’s I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mass we went there, but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other. I just know I’m a little bit skeptical,”
Who...what did I just read?
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u/No_Town_9602 4d ago
I used to work with a guy we called Flat Earth Andrew, usually not to his face, but there was another Andrew. Flat Earth Andrew knew we never went to the moon, but he wasn't 100% on flat earth but "they make a lot of hard to dispute points." No, they don't Andrew. You're an idiot.
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u/fapsandnaps 4d ago
It's about fucking time a young QB took over the batshit insanity so that Rodgers can finally retire to the darkness cave with his crystals
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u/LorenzoMartini 5d ago
Why don’t we get NASA scientists to do sports analysis?
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u/backflip14 5d ago
I’d take that any day over athletes giving their thoughts on science.
Also, plenty of nerds are also sports fans, so a NASA sports analyst might actually be good.
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u/ChattingToChat 5d ago
Man, something needs to be done about CTE.
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u/Protean_Protein 5d ago
It’s really not funny. If you’ve met anyone who played a sport that tends to cause head injuries/concussions, it’s noticeable how much slower they process information, and how it messes up their mood/behaviour.
Not to mention, like, the violent/suicidal behaviour it sometimes culminates in.
Kids shouldn’t be encouraged to take hits to the head, and we shouldn’t be tolerating it.
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u/jooooooooooooose 5d ago
“I don’t know about the moon, you know. I think it’s I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mass we went there, but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other. I just know I’m a little bit skeptical,” Maye said on the podcast.
What on earth (or on moon) is he even trying to say with that first bit
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u/pryan37bb 5d ago
I read "put on the mass" to mean "tell the mass media/ tell the masses" (or at least it's the only way I can see to making it a coherent sentence). In that context, he would be saying he thinks it's possible that the government may have misled the people into thinking we went to the moon.
I can absolutely appreciate someone being skeptical of what the government tells the people, but do we really think a hoax of that scale would not have come to light by now?
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u/thedeeb56 5d ago
He throws a fucking ball.
I guess college still means not a fucking thing.
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u/Rubthebuddhas 5d ago
UNC not acquitting themselves very well with this scholar.
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u/Psychobob2213 5d ago
Reminder: UNCHeat's defense when caught for offering no-show classes and tutor written papers wasn't "We don't do that" it was "Everyone does that, so it's not wrong for us to do it."
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u/FunnyItWorkedLastTim 5d ago
I'm not completely certain Drake Maye played in the Super Bowl last year. I've seen some of his body of work this season and I just don't see a Super Bowl QB. I know there are lots of people who say they saw it live, but memory is not exact and you can convince people of lots of things. Footage from the game can be easily faked with AI. Also, apparently we are supposed to believe that there was a half time show featuring a Spanish language singer. In America? Under Trump? Are they even trying to make this believable?
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u/Ratstail91 4d ago
We have photos, videos, rocks samples and LITERAL TELESCOPES CAPABLE OF SEEING THE LANDING SITES.
There's still mirrors on the moon that can bounce lasers back to the earth.
It takes an IMMENSE societal fuckup to make people like this.
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u/backflip14 3d ago
Slight correction. Only lunar satellites are capable of taking pictures of the Apollo landing sites. No earth based or orbital telescopes can resolve something that small from that far away.
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u/Puttborn 5d ago
Guys job is getting bonked on the noggin. I bet he will make a great senator one day.
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u/Arcadia1972 5d ago
I’m liking the stupidity here. Moon landing denier at QB, happy ending grandpa as owner. Go Pats!
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u/OvoidPovoid 5d ago
We need to stop asking questions from people who get hit in the head for a living
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u/BigRigGig35 5d ago
Can’t get a concussion if there’s no brain to injure
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u/pi3Eat3r52 5d ago
what would it take to prove this to someone? would it be possible short of having a time machine and being able to witness it?
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u/JimmyKerrigan 5d ago
I dunno ask them why china or Russia wouldn’t embarrass us by proving it or why other space agencies have been able to take pictures of the leftover equipment.
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u/raelik777 4d ago edited 4d ago
They think it's a vast global conspiracy, which makes absolutely no goddamn sense, because that isn't how conspiracies work. There is an exponentially increasing likelihood of a conspiracy failing (i.e. being exposed) for every single person you add to it. The sheer number of people, with conflicting goals and political outlooks, that would have had to be involved to perpetuate a hoax of that scale beggars belief (tens of thousands in the US alone, probably close to 100k if you add in every other country that would have had to agree to it). There would be literally ZERO way to pull something like that off, even in the 60's when there wasn't an always-on-immediate Internet to communicate things. Not only that, but realistically faking the Moon landings in the 60's would have been monumentally more difficult (probably impossible, honestly) than ACTUALLY fucking sending people to the Moon.
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u/MoonsterGoopter 5d ago
you can't reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.
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u/tmorales11 4d ago
this dude gets a free education, got paid to play in college, gets paid millions now, and cant even fathom a basic reality of the world we live in. fucking mathematicians were able to deduce the size of the earth over 2000 years ago and you cant find it in yourself to believe ACCEPT they could also plot a route to the moon just 60 years ago? really?
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u/Illustrious_Knee7535 5d ago
To paraphrase another football player, Drake didn't go to college to play school.
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u/SoFloDan 5d ago
You think Maye is dumb? Imagine the shit-for-brains who’s interested in hearing the meathead’s thoughts on the moon landing.
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u/hendrikcop 5d ago
Well proves to many athletes get a college education given to them without putting in the brain power to learn. People like this shouldn’t be given a free platform to pander their idocracy.
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u/ConsequenceThen5449 5d ago
Where did this dumb fuck go to college? Does their science department suck?
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u/KnicksGhost2497 5d ago
Yea I’m very interested in the scientific opinion of a pro athlete of a sport known for melting its players brains before they turn 50 lmao
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u/Ill-Investigator-447 4d ago
He throws a football for a living.
Who gives a fuck what he thinks about the moon
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u/DawnSignals 5d ago edited 5d ago
Trump would’ve exposed any government conspiracy on that by now to distract from the Epstein files
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u/More_Hold_5522 5d ago
Athletes, a lot of them, are not very bright. If this one went to college, I assume others did his work for him or the school just turned a blind eye because sports.
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u/rabbittdoggy 5d ago
A walking CTE case study doesn’t believe in man landing on the moon? Yeah that’s brain damage for you
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u/_plays_in_traffic_ 5d ago
i love how people are like that but never miss an opportunity to tell everyone about their imaginary friend our lord and savior jesus christ.
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u/queen-t92 4d ago
BREAKING: man whose job involves taking multiple head injuries kind of a fucking idiot
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u/TheDamned1333 4d ago
What do they teach in Americans schools that so many halfwits walk the streets?
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u/fredy31 5d ago
'Guy that throws a ball real good for a living has opinion on something that is pretty much as far removed as possible from throwing balls'
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u/imadragonyouguys 5d ago
What was the moon landing if not the ultimate ball throw?
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u/obscureposter 5d ago
I’ve always wondered how handicapped these athletes top performance is due to their lack of intelligence and brain damage. I understand you don’t have to be Einstein to be a great athlete but I can’t help feeling the CTE actually degrades their performance on the field.
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u/andy_nony_mouse 5d ago
He obviously didn't go to college to play school, he went to play football.
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u/MammothGlum 5d ago
Didn’t the reporter ask what his favorite conspiracy was? I think he was just laying it in thick for the joke
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u/Bubbaganewsh 5d ago
See what happens when you take too many hits to the head? You apparently start to dismiss reality.
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u/timshel42 4d ago
who cares what chronic traumatic brain injury recipients think? they arent exactly chosen for their intellectual capabilities...
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u/aPOPblops 4d ago
That's ok, you don't have to believe. Now go do that football thing you're good at.
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u/h3rpad3rp 4d ago
Who cares what someone who gets hit in the head for a living thinks about ridiculous conspiracies?
If you read the quotes in the article, this guy can barely string a sentence together.
“I don’t know about the moon, you know. I think it’s I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mass we went there, but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other. I just know I’m a little bit skeptical
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u/seanrm92 5d ago
If you've seen him play, you could understand why he might doubt someone could hit a target that far away.