Motivation Quote by Marcus Allen

Marcus Allen is doing something athletes rarely get credit for: mapping grievance onto geography, and making it sound like common sense. His point isn’t just that games are missed because of time zones. It’s that visibility is power, and in pro sports, power gets hoarded by whoever controls the national gaze.

The phrasing is telling. “We don’t see games” reads like an innocent scheduling complaint, but it’s really an indictment of whose stories get told. In the pre-streaming era especially, national TV windows and highlight shows acted like gatekeepers. If you were a West Coast star, your best performance might land after bedtime for East Coast voters, columnists, and award committees. The result isn’t merely fewer eyeballs; it’s a thinner cultural footprint. Fewer narratives, fewer endorsements, fewer legacy points.

Allen’s “and stuff like that” is the conversational shrug that softens a sharper accusation. He’s aware he’s stepping into politically charged territory: bias isn’t just an inconvenience, it’s a systemic tilt that affects careers. Calling it “so unfair” isn’t melodrama; it’s a moral claim that the league sells itself as one unified national product while operating like a set of regional fiefdoms competing for relevance.

Subtext: this isn’t about fans missing a kickoff. It’s about whose excellence gets converted into myth, and how quickly the sport forgets what it doesn’t consistently broadcast.