It was no different than watching overpaid immature thugs ‘play’ ‘sports’ today.
Many things change but people, at the basic level, do not.
Modern pro sports are worse nowadays.
Let us remember that captured human tribute/slaves were used as gladiators in human sacrifice for Rome and were not voluntarily doing it. Nowadays we have “descendants of slaves” narcissistically soul selling for a human personality sacrifice in the court or football field. It is all fake personae.
To see the NFL, an inherent cynical hate industry, now putting up DEI poster boards against hate, is just another of the gaslight coming from narc institutions