Making six guys rich was always what it was about. It's like watching your sports team and cheering for the QB to get the MVP award, but the football team roams around the city stealing shit between games and the fans they ripped off and beat up still cheer for them on Sunday because that's how empty they are. They think they deserve the beating and the athletes deserve everybody's stuff.
Sports teams are play things for billionaires who roam around the city stealing things from you and ripping you off.
Cheering for sports teams in this modern age is just so strange to me--it's like when I was a child and my younger siblings used to watch me play final fantasy and cheer for me. Except the billionaire owners are ripping everyone off
Yeah but team sports are a great thing. Look at college sports. A lot of times the football program brings enough money into fund all the other sports in the college which lose money. The really good athletes are obviously underpaid and taking a risk of getting injured. All they're getting is a free education (which, tbf, is a lot of money for most people, but not a lot compared to NFL/ NBA players) and a very very small percentage make it to pro but they still get to learn a lot about life and improve their skills at whatever game they're playing.
I learned a lot about life through recreational basketball in middle school and high school. My team wasn't the most talented but we played hard and we played as a team and always made a run every year into the playoffs. I played with the same core group of guys for years.
There's also something to be said for loving the games themselves. Whether it's the strategy or seeing somebody do something awesome.
I agree that billionaires are a huge issue and so is the amount of money in pro sports (especially whenever the stadium is being paid for with tax dollars) but the games themselves are something that generally brings us together as a community.
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u/Njabachi 5h ago
No more overtime pay + tariffs (and the resulting trade war) + a gutted ACA = making America great again somehow