There was a time in my life when I quite enjoyed sport. Shoot I need to qualify that statement. I still love sport - playing sport. I am looking forward very much to Thanksgiving Day and the annual Turkey Bowl. It is a favorite. I enjoyed the 2 or 3 softball games I made it to with the Ward this year for Church Softball. I quite enjoyed playing soccer with the team - I only got to play during practices but it was fun. What I am referencing is that I used to love professional sports. I tried to keep up on the goings on and watched as much as I could.
Something has changed. I don't know if it is an age thing or if it merely disgust but I don't possess a lot of love for todays professional athletes. I struggle with the attitudes and the greed that exists. I think these lockouts in football and now in basketball have really rubbed me the wrong way as well. When I consider where I am at and where many are at today it makes me somewhat sick that these people that get to play sport for their living have become so greedy. It is like there is no perspective on life. I am particularly referring to the NBA lockout that has the owners and the players union squaring off at eachother. I have read and looked at some of the statements being made and I am completely baffled. These people have lost touch with reality. They don't know what it is like to wonder where your next check is coming from or worrying about how you are going to put food on the table for your family. Somehow this has stopped being looked at as an employment opportunity. Now the employees are telling the employers what is up. It doesn't really work that way in other professions.
Perhaps I am merely jealous. I am just worked up because I finally realized my professional sports career just isn't happening. Well, who knows. We will get by somehow, you know, for sport.
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