Absolutely correct! Cannot fathom why:
1. The NFL has to wear pink during October.
2. Showboating players act as if they have saved the village from a rogue elephant after a tackle, 10 yard reception, TD, basket, homerun.
3. Players can act as if they are superhuman for making a slam dunk (on a basket one foot higher than their arms reach) but whine like babies if they hear the "N" word.
4. Tickets prices, parking and concessions for a family of four at any pro sporting event rival the amount usually spent on a vacation.
5. Present day parks, arenas and stadiums look like Little League ballparks with all the advertising on fences, let alone the rings around the arena and stadium, ice, uniforms and TV timeouts. Even pro golfers look like NASCAR drivers with all the sponsorship logos on their shirts and caps.
“Showboating players act as if they have saved the village from a rogue elephant after a tackle, 10 yard reception, TD, basket, homerun.”
Not that there isn’t too much celebratory buffoonery in MLB, but it’s so much less than the other sports. The reason you don’t see someone capering down to first and making choke signs to the pitcher after drawing a walk is that no one wants 90+ anywhere much less your eye socket. Hit a homerun in the first inning and moonwalk around the bases and see what happens. Maybe not to you, and maybe not that day or even that series, but eventually retaliation happens.
The NFL has 16 regular season games, each one is so important that the cool players can’t police the jerkwads because of penalties, a million camera angles and modern officiating. So you have 300lb behemoths falling on a loose ball and getting up and breaking out the fruity gyrating and chest pounding displays. And they could do it all day long, nothing is going to happen to them that doesn’t normally happen.
Freegards
Your list is a good one. I wish I would have thought to add the outrageous concession prices to my list. They’re downright insulting.
And then there are the various “convenience fees” when ordering tickets on line and the high parking fees at the stadium when you arrive.
Its all becoming a giant scam. There’s a sucker born every minute.