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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyz View Post
    Since the Roman Gladiators it has been as it is.
    Yep,

    But this time, the Gov doesn't have to distract

    Someone else is doing it already


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sergeant Gleed View Post
    Sandlot sports are dying because the inner city kids don't want to be shot by the drug dealers.

    The white majority is abandoning sports because nobody hires whites for the pros anymore and the colleges aren't giving whites sports scholarships. Especially not to white msles.
    That’s absurd.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    That’s absurd.

    Sandlot sports are dying for many reasons. Including the video game, but also the reality of stranger danger to name a couple.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Sandlot sports are dying for many reasons. Including the video game, but also the reality of stranger danger to name a couple.
    I don't believe the stranger danger thing. Video games is a legit reason though. When I was a kid you didn't see advertisements during a foorball game urging parents to get their kids outside to play for an hour a day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Sports is now big business and kids no longer play outside anymore unless they are living in third world countries or very poor N. American cities. Sports fans with enough money and kids with athletic ability pay their way into sports hoping for scholarships at the very least.

    Ah but we used to play for pure love of the game, knowing it would take us nowhere. Exercise, social, conflict resolution skills and just plain fun. We played hard though. Some of the best times of my life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Ah but we used to play for pure love of the game, knowing it would take us nowhere. Exercise, social, conflict resolution skills and just plain fun. We played hard though. Some of the best times of my life.
    That's the thing - how often do you see kids playing pickup games anymore? More often than not they're indoors playing video games.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    That's the thing - how often do you see kids playing pickup games anymore? More often than not they're indoors playing video games.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    I don't believe the stranger danger thing. Video games is a legit reason though. When I was a kid you didn't see advertisements during a foorball game urging parents to get their kids outside to play for an hour a day.
    I think stranger danger is a factor for little kids simply being told to "come home when the street lights come home" . I thinks parents, understandably don't want them out of sight. I was simply told to never go in Mr. _____'s house without my parents and had no idea why. But in that, unspoken way parents have of communicating which rules are the most important, it got through and I never went there alone. The nice lady up the road however had cookies and no such rule!

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    We've got a coach with a 100,000,000.00 contract a broadcaster who wants 10 million a year and NBA player with his own show on which he likens NFL owners ( who payout what a couple of hundred million a year in salaries and benefits) to slave owners.
    A quarterback who travels with a PT and another who makes 20 plus million a year despite only 8 or so professional starts. An NFL that spends millions related to brain injuries and hypes their attempts to combat them while not fully banning deliberate head to head contact.
    Grown ass adults who play "fantasy sports."
    High school kids being pushed through classes so they could remain eligible for sports and fans who lose their minds over a HS victory when they don't even know any players! I believe fake scholarships for people who may never have even played that particular sport were involved in the college admissions sting.
    Long ago we were warned that money would ruin sports and now we are full of an industry that doesn't seem to realize that you can't milk a goose any harder.
    Where is the breaking point? Well I see far fewer kids , if any, playing sandlot sports anymore and I've been to two professional sporting contest in the past 6 months or so and didn't see many kids at either game.
    Thoughts?
    The salaries are whatever the market will support I suppose. So I don’t begrudge athletes, owners, players, announcers, getting all they can from TV deals, from sponsors, from advertisers….

    What I do begrudge is the bald faced lies that professional sports are a necessary thing in cities. They are told by owners, by leagues, and most importantly by the politicians. Football is the worst. These cavernous buildings sit idle most of the time. The costs are exorbitant. The impact on the community is minimal. Did Los Angeles fall off the map when it didn’t have an NFL franchise for about a decade? No. Somehow, Las Vegas survived for nearly a century without one. If the Bears packed up and moved to Calgary…would Chicago fall off the map? No.

    The areas around the stadiums are largely just as run down in Houston as they have always been. There are some new developments but there are much more buildings that look like they should be condemned. When Houston lost the Oilers, I lived there. People just found other things to do on Sundays. Actually, from a football fan’s perspective, it was much better because there was no black-out of competing games as their used to be in the local market—meaning that if the Oilers were playing, no other NFL game was sent over-the-air to your viewing area. So you always got 2 games at noon and 2 games at 3PM. What was really maddening was when the Oilers had a west coast game and it would kick off at 3PM local time, you’d be watching the end of the Noon game and if it went past 3, the coverage would stop. Sometimes the screen would go black. Then you’d have to wait for John Criqui to tell you the outcome of the game you just watched while the Oilers were field dressed by whomever they were playing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sergeant Gleed View Post
    Sandlot sports are dying because the inner city kids don't want to be shot by the drug dealers.

    The white majority is abandoning sports because nobody hires whites for the pros anymore and the colleges aren't giving whites sports scholarships. Especially not to white msles.
    I think you're wrong on both

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