I hate admitting this in a country and society that is devoured by their favorite teams and players, but I don't care to watch professional sports. I strongly dislike spending my leisure time watching people chase after balls of various shapes and sizes. I don't care to keep up with the current NFL fantasy football statistics or pay attention to March Madness brackets.
For starters, I don't pay for cable. I think it's ridiculous to pay upwards of a hundred of dollars a month for thousands of channels when I know I'll watch the same 4 or 5 channels. There is no point of me to spend nearly $30 per channel I watch. It simply doesn't make financial sense. There are many other reasons I don't have cable television, but not having cable is one reason I don't care for professional sports.
Secondly, I hate the reality that a quarterback for an NFL team or a point guard for the top basketball team in the league will make millions of dollars a year. There are thousands of homeless and starving individuals (many of whom are children) on the streets and here are these people chasing and tackling each other for a ball. Not the mention the million of dollars put into constructing these stadiums and arenas. I have to wonder how much of that money is circulated back into the pockets of the average person, and how much of it sits in the owner's pockets. I would rather take my time and money to devote it to something that I feel actually matters in the grand scheme of the world.
Another reason I don't care for professional sports is that I, myself, am not coordinated at all. I trip over my own feet, fall up the stairs and can practically injure myself in any situation. To some extent, I am jealous of the athletic abilities of these people. I have the mention that this is a very small- almost non-existent sense of jealousy.
Pertaining to the point I just made, athletics, and fitness in general, aren't very important to me, so it doesn't make sense (in my world) to care about sports. In all honestly, I just don't see the point of the hype and stardom of professional players. I am not saying all professional players are horrible people, but I'm simply pointing out the fact that they are dramatized as being important people. I have to ask myself at times, are these people really important?
I'm not saying sports are a waste of time and should be abolished. They are incredibly beneficial in so many ways. I am just questioning the purpose of professional leagues in everyday life. I am questioning the value and importance our society has placed on these activities and more importantly these people.
