Fueri
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Used to love sports, baseball particularly followed closely by football. Was never a huge hoops fan after the Jordan era.
I started drifting away from sports due to the strikes by millionaires crying about their lack of proper compensation. It pissed me off and the result was spiraling costs that have priced the average family out of the market to go to a game, which sucks IMO. I went to the ballpark all the time with my family as a kid and we weren't by any means rich. Very blue-collar, but we still went several times a year and it's what made me a fan, I am 100% sure. Now I don't see that as possible for similarly situated families and that blows, and it will also undermine their fan base going forward, IMO. Fans aren't made via TV. It's the crowd, the excitement, the event, the experiences and memories made that get into your blood and stay there.
For me, sports are entertainment. I do not like when politics are injected into it, any more than I'd like to have some type of protest shoved in my face every time I went to see a movie, or a concert or whatever.
I'm the consumer, it's my money and my time being spent and I get to choose whether or not to support it and, if the product is no longer what I'm after, I simply won't. This politically charged element is not what I want so it puts me off. I find I just care less and less....
I started drifting away from sports due to the strikes by millionaires crying about their lack of proper compensation. It pissed me off and the result was spiraling costs that have priced the average family out of the market to go to a game, which sucks IMO. I went to the ballpark all the time with my family as a kid and we weren't by any means rich. Very blue-collar, but we still went several times a year and it's what made me a fan, I am 100% sure. Now I don't see that as possible for similarly situated families and that blows, and it will also undermine their fan base going forward, IMO. Fans aren't made via TV. It's the crowd, the excitement, the event, the experiences and memories made that get into your blood and stay there.
For me, sports are entertainment. I do not like when politics are injected into it, any more than I'd like to have some type of protest shoved in my face every time I went to see a movie, or a concert or whatever.
I'm the consumer, it's my money and my time being spent and I get to choose whether or not to support it and, if the product is no longer what I'm after, I simply won't. This politically charged element is not what I want so it puts me off. I find I just care less and less....