Its all mere entertainment.
And of course these people are corrupt and do not honor their contractual obligations. Do these women not pay attention to how many of these athletes are serious drug addicts off the field? Did they think that stops when they move up to the coaching staff?
Absolutely the management of major sports will pull any crap you don't have the money to cause the courts to correct. Good behavior went out in the early seventies when they abandoned even a vague pretense of what used to be called “sportsmanship. “
“It is not as though anyone needs any of them, players, coaches, referees, cheerleaders.
Its all mere entertainment.”
It isn’t even that! (the football that is)! The last time I went to an NFL game, the play was so poor that only watching the cheerleaders saved the evening for me. Just glad I don’t live in “some big $hit hole city” that’s taxing me so they can provide a cheap place for these a$$holes to play in while the owners and a flock of brainless Holder’s persons get rich.