The Fallacy of Sports

I, unlike the mass majority of people, do not believe in sports. To
me, major league, and even college sports, are nothing more than false
god worship. We make these football players under a microscope and
atop a pedestal, and for what? All they do is work out and practice.
They spend all of their time preparing for games, practicing and
working out, when they might only play a game not even once a week.
And, they have 6 months off in the off season.

We idolize these people with posters and commerative memorabelia and
for what? So that they can be traded to another team so they can be
paid another few million dollars a year. We idolize these people and
often forget that they, like us, are just human. We seem surprised and
even outraged when they are caught with a DUI or are arrested because
of a pub brawl. They are people. They aren't perfect. They have flaws
too.

Also, for the most part, stadiums and player paychecks are paid for
through taxes. Why is it then that it costs a family of four well over
$150 to get good tickets for a game? If we the taxpayers are
subsidizing most of the funding for sports, then why does it cost a
few arms and a leg to go to a single game?

Sports create such an unneseccary rivalry. For example, at a
convention for a large organization with atendance from all around the
pacific northwest, a candidate for office from my school was highly
disrespected by people from our rival school. Here we are at a
convention that promotes volunteerism and inclusiveness and even
there, sports and rivalries prevail. Why?

At my school, similar to every other public school and institution in
the country, we are facing a double digit state funding budget cut.
This same year, they announce plans to overhaul our football stadium,
which has the largest capacity of any stadium in the state and is not
by any means inadequate. I understand that a majority of renevations
would be paid for via tax dollars and not student or university
funding. Still. When our university is facing %30 state funding cuts,
even though the stadium would be paid for in other ways, our first
priority should not be renevating a stadium, but instead, restoring
our school's funding.

Sports, indeed and no doubt, do have a place in our society. However,
I do believe that we place too much of an emphasis on sports. Sports
create an unecessary rivalry and should not be a priority for our tax
dollars.

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