sports addiction

So, like, when did sports take over the nation?
You turn your back for just a few years and...

Professional sports, I realize, has been popular for a long, long time;
but it seems like, lately, it's gotten ridiculous.

We're a nation of sports addicts, which would be okay if we were participating, exercise being good for us and all. But we're addicted to watching--while drinking alcohol and filling our faces with unhealthy foodstuffs.

And we've [okay, I'm going to stop using the 1st person plural here, because I am definitely not a party to this madness] vested huge amounts of cash and resources into the effort, and not only at the corporate level, which is somewhat understandable, given the fact that the country is hardcore corporate capitalist.

I disavow all of it. It's insanity disguised as normal social engagement.
The country has gone over the top.

[This diatribe has been prompted by a daily Pittsburgh Yahoo! e-mail alert that I get that is supposed to report news but is filled with sports news with an occasional actual news items included (maybe); so, maybe this is more of a Yahoo! problem than a national one. Nah.]

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