You wanna see something truly sick? If you can bear it, watch that movie, I think it is 9mm with Nick Cage in it. My wife and I rented it. We did not know what it was about. It made my wife jump from the chair and run to the bathroom and throw up. I took it out and we immediately returned it. It was garbage. Yet, it is a film about crap that actually goes on in this country. Pure garbage.
We are lost as a society. We praise garbage like T.O., giving him his millions, for what? Playing a stupid high school sports game. What did you get out of it? You team won. You felt good for 15 minutes. T.O. got his millions in contract. Millions from shoes, clothes, cars, truck, McDonald's commercials. You got your 15 minutes of feel good.
The NBA is giving 18/19 year old high school kids who cannot read, write, do simple math, hundreds of thousands of dollars to bounce a basketball. You go to an arena and CHEER a 19 year old. Then you go home and yell at your 18 year old for not cutting the grass. Go figure.
Nope, in my humble opinion, America is sliding down a muddy slope to total ruin and destruction. But, hey, no problem, our team won last night. T.O. got his millions. Koby did not rape the woman, it was consensual sex, even though he was married. Hey, no problem. Marriage vowls are only meant for the moment, he really does love his wife. Respect her, NO, but he still loves her. If he respected her, he would not have screwed the chick in the hotel. But, that is ok, Koby is scoring 35 a game and the Lakers are winning. All is well with the world. Nope, sports suck.
Exactly. If more people thought the way you and I do on this matter irtwould fix itself via lower ticket sales, less tv time, and less buying of marketable crap.
I get sick of the constant making these guys out to be gladiators or honorable warriors and the pump up they get like they are dieties. Most are classless goons, especially basketball. They are overgrown kids playing a game. Athletes at their level are not born they are manufactured with steriods. Real heros are over in Iraq and other places right now.
BUMP!
Well stated! And on a related note, I think the race to the bottom REALLY picked up steam when they started selling stadium naming rights to entities that have little or nothing to do with sports or the team's hometown. IMO quite a few of the stadiums out there have "official" names that sound, to put it mildly, rather dorky;)