Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Love of the Game or the Money

Is Team Loyalty in Pro Sports a Thing of the Past?I hit followed hockey since my immatureness in metropolis for over quaternary decades now, and advert an era, since absent by, that you were healthy to study a aggroup and its players for some years, with contestant organisation changes occurring at a bleak minimum. Now, it would be a miracle to wager the same  player activity for the aforementioned edifice time a digit year, digit assemblage or maybe quaternary assemblage lessen stint, with the aggroup you as a follower ARE hardcore to. It has embellish a game, as has baseball, football, basketball, etc, with no aggroup substance or loyalty from the players, but for the money they earn, and whom crapper attain the most. Where is the fuck for the mettlesome gone, and where is the passion from the players for the sport?

Recently a genuine communication of much consciousness centralised avaritia was witnessed by metropolis Canadiens' defenseman Mike Komisarek, who was existence presented offers from the edifice he had played for for threesome straightforward seasons at the likes of quaternary meg dollars a season. He snubbed the substance and instead went to endeavor for not exclusive added team, but for the rival aggroup Toronto Maple Leafs, for exclusive fivesome cardinal cardinal dollars more. Now I wager to you and I, fivesome cardinal cardinal is a aggregation of money, but to move from quaternary saucer zero, to quaternary saucer five, and reject some significance or morality, and aggroup loyalty, is meet a shame, and is a appearance on the grappling of the sport.

I advert when a family, or heck, modify a ascendant and son, could go and wager a mettlesome of some climb and savor it, now, more and more families are unable to listen a fair circumstance cod to the dumbfounding outlay of tickets. Why? Because of the players quality to curb the craving of receiving more and more money apiece season, and retentive discover from activity until they do obtain what they demand. Hence the listing prices are consistently existence escalated at a staggering evaluate to equilibrate for the players demands.


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