The day is near when the American sports nation will go in hibernation spending hard earned dollars on anything to do with major league sports. Athletes salaries are a joke and need a reality check.
At one end of the spectrum, we have rookie first rounders becoming instant mega-millionaires without a professional play on their resumes. The other end has the Manny Ramirez's of the world turning down $25,000,000.00 for one year (season) of (work).
Please don't insult the hard-working fan anymore. The age of greed is over. Television advertisers are trimming budgets. Corporate sponsorships are being withdrawn. Executive expense accounts are shrinking. Accountability is finally becoming in vogue.
Currently a family of four will spend on average $800.00 to attend an NFL game. For 95 percent of Americans, this is not possible. Professional sports has become elitist, a good time to be had on the company tab. The corporate well is about to go dry and teams will not be able to honor these outrageous contracts because revenues will decline, especially television rights sharing.
It will once again be a privilege to play at the professional level where the athlete is a role model and not a rich,spoiled ego maniac who's spent a life of being pampered and kowtowed to by colleges and professional teams because they can play a game or hit a ball or score a goal.
May the recession last long enough to get rid of the Plaxico's of the world and the out of touch agents who insult our intelligence and have made professional sports a game of the rich for the rich.
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