all pro sports are for entertainment....and they have the right to fix games as they want...its their entertainment league....
Not quite. It's OUR entertainment league also. How so?? Read on.
Technically, the NFL is a non-profit due to a special exception from Congress in the 1960s. A "non-profit" although the league makes billions of dollars of profit each year while paying their team executives seven-figure annual salaries.
The majority of NFL franchises get taxpayers-funded freebies from city and state governments, including taxpayer-funded stadiums, free sewer and water services, power, stadium improvements, a pass on personal property taxes, and more.
If the governments don't hand over, the teams threaten to leave, and the pols don't want to be blamed for losing a city's favorite team.
Greg Easterbrook wrote in "The Atlantic"...."the NFL is about providing entertainment, which it does very well, PLUS exploiting taxpayers, which it also does very well".
Judith Long of Harvard, an urban planning expert, calculates that league-wide, 70% of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by taxpayers, not NFL owners.
Even states and cities that are in or near bankruptcy can be duped into providing public cash. They have little money for schools, but they have plenty of money for subsidies for shiny new stadiums.
The owners reap millions in personal income every year, the local politicians get donations and personal luxury box seats, and the taxpayers get the shaft.
Now, Cherry, let me repeat your post to me..."All sports are for entertainment....and they have the right to fix games as they want...it's their entertainment league."
Do you care to stand by your post?
Leni