At the end of the day pro (and ameture for that matter) sports are nothing more than entertainment. I’ll spend my time and hard earned money entertaining myself in some other way.
Too bad there are to many people that live their lives vicariously through their favorite sports team/player. I used to do it...but I REALLY woke up.
It always amazed me how many of my customers had practically a ‘shrine’ to John Elway or Peyton Manning and the Broncos, in the front room of the house.
I never had the opportunity to play because I lived ten miles from the school and I had to work on the farm. There were no neighbors with kids my age in the country so I just never got into ball games and have not spent more than ten hours watching them in my whole life. We have a son-in-law who grew up very close to Clemson and I have had all I can take of a grown man who is six foot one and weighs 235 literally jumping up and down and screaming when Clemson makes a touchdown and ignoring all else in the world as if the fate of the entire planet hinges on the outcome of the Clemson-Carolina game. I could die of boredom while he is on an adrenaline rush that could cause a heart attack.