I’m mostly concerned about the youth league tournaments, that often require some travel.
Suddenly kids are no shows for Sunday school, and entire families drop church altogether.
Dance team stuff...
I don’t even want to go there.
Travel dance has beaten travel ball in revenue and commitments. The girls want to be the top diva where they can dance for a pro sports team or a pop singer.
In re-reading this (as is often done), I noticed many of these fields are city-owned or school-owned fields. The abolition of blue laws has allowed groups to organise Sunday football, baseball, softball, and the like tournaments. Travel ball is replacing high school ball because of restrictions imposed in high schools, and in many areas, high school sports are now hamstrung by social justice rules against boys that travel ball is unrestricted by quota and other absurd rules on boys (which has been proven by Title IX quotas).
If the blue laws were designed so travel ball (and travel dance, which is the biggest offender) could not be organised on Sunday mornings (cannot allow events to start before 2 PM, cannot open gates to venue before 1 PM), you would have more options. Churches would invite travel ball parents to bring their kids to their church in the early service since travel ball would not be allowed on Sundays before 2 PM.
Venues need to look at a prohibition of travel tournaments on Sundays before 2 PM.