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Sadly, the game has come from a time where players were loyal to their managers, teams and teammates, to a day and age of greed – and it has nearly come to a point where money is the only tangible factor that comes into play when players makes decisions on which team to play.

Pretty much sums up why I refuse to subsidize baseball and why football is rapidly losing it's appeal to me.

I think once the teams became a group of hired contractors the concept of them being a "team" didn't really click with me. I'd like to think of a team like the Chicago "Bears" being a group of guys who love Chicago, play out of pride and provide a real and tanigible return to the community that supports them. How? By being decent citizens for starters.

But now that I've returned from fantasy-land, I know it just doesn't work that way anymore. Still, it just feels dirty watching a group of hired contractors rather than a team. I don't feel like subsidizing a known felon who'd sell his mother for another 200G and doesn't give a damn about the city and people his team allegedly represents.

Maybe a lot of people feel that way.

I used to be so into the tactics (my love was football, but the same thing is happening there so it's a valid point for discussion), but the other aspects of what was happening with football began to taint how I felt about it. Man, there used to be only a few things that felt better than whopping a guy at full speed in full pads on the field. Who the hell cared where the ball was? Nowadays it takes an effort to get involved, which is sad. I really loved the sport.

The current financial structure of both football and baseball have not helped to make them any more appealing to fans.

This is a good thread to put in that article you posted last night on adopting a player.

I don't feel like subsidizing a known felon who'd sell his mother for another 200G and doesn't give a damn about the city and people his team allegedly represents. ....Maybe a lot of people feel that way.

You're certainly not alone. I'd imagine most sports fans fell that way, but try their best not to think about it.

I used to be so into the tactics (my love was football, but the same thing is happening there so it's a valid point for discussion), but the other aspects of what was happening with football began to taint how I felt about it

As far as football is concerned, it's the wild celebration after every single play that really irks me. A linebacker stops an opposing running back after gaining 7 yards on first down, and the celebration of the tackle would lead one to think (if one didn't know any better) that the team playing defense just won the Super Bowl. It wasn't too many years ago where players went about their business on the field like professionals, and after making a decent play they acted like they had done it before and will do it again. Most of today's pro athletes are children by comparison. There aren't too many Cal Ripken Jr.'s left.