While I appreciate your point, and can see some validity to it, there is nothing evil about recognizing that the three main sports in the U. S. are baseball, football, and basketball.
Those are iconic. Again, there’s nothing evil about that.
In other nations there are other sports, soccer being one, where it or another is considered to be their iconic sport. While I personally can’t stand soccer, there’s nothing immoral about their iconic sport being soccer.
To me, this is soccer:
And this is nothing more than an entertainment extravaganza:
If I was a soccer fan, I'd give up the second one and spend more time on the first.