[Noumenon]

Edward Gibbon, the renowned historian who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, described six attributes that Rome embodied at its end:

First, an overwhelming love of show and luxury;
Second, a widening gap between the rich and the poor;
Third, an obsession with sports and a freakishness in the arts, masquerading as creativity and originality;
Fourth, a decline in morals, increase in divorce and decline in the institution of the family;
Fifth, economic deterioration resulting from debasement of the currency, inflation, excessive taxation, and overregulation;
and Sixth, an increased desire by the citizenry to live off the state.

America is not Rome. But we're working on it.

[Ace's Dad]

Like Rome?

Third, an obsession with sports

How about our neighbor Canada, with a $50 Million dollar hockey coach?