I know I'm going to sound terribly snobby, but I don't care for professional sports. I say support the local teams, but when it turns professional, and I hear the money that gets poured into the commercialism of said, it just turns my stomach. So many good things could be done with all that money. I feel the same way about movies and the entertainment biz as well. Where could we be if 1/2 the time and money that goes into entertainment (counting professional sports) went into local teams, fine arts, and our kids' educations...
::sigh:: I probably shouldn't have even posted, but my kids are in sports and theater at school, and it's sad to see how little encouragement and support they get from the same community that will spend hundreds of dollars per capita to travel to professional events, and it's discouraging.
We don't even have TV in the house, so it doesn't distract us at home.