Watching sports used to simply be a pastime. You watched football on Sunday, talked about it on Monday and you wouldn’t hear much about it until the weekend. Now it’s a lifestyle. Everyday, there’s some new drama to report or something repackaged in order to keep people engaged.
People pay more attention to sports than their own lives. Maybe there’s a bigger issue here, people feeling they need to escape their lives and sports simply fill the void. Or maybe without sports people lack an actual personality. Whatever it is, it’s turned sports into a soap opera.
Why is it that people can reel off how many yards or points a player had each season of their career off the top of their head, but don’t know how a bill becomes law or are clueless as to how the financial system works?
Why are people so easily enraged because of something an athlete did, but feel nothing when the latest incident of government corruption comes to light? Why do we celebrate the glory of a sports team but not that of people we actually know? Maybe the people really getting rich from it all want it that way. Maybe our emotions are purposely being manipulated in order to keep us coming back.
I don’t feel like I need to make the case for the NFL, NBA and the rest of the sports leagues being scripted or choreographed to some degree. If you watch enough games, that becomes apparent. This isn’t a call to boycott sports; if you want to do that, that’s your choice. My goal is only to inform. Watch if you want, but realize what you’re watching.
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