May I make a comment about a question recently asked about banning pro sports?

Question

Each time I hear or read someone say pro sports should be banned or go away or outlawed because athletes are overpaid, I wonder what people think about. Sports, whether they are pro or amateur are major industries in our world and contribute mightily to economies worldwide. To ban sports would be banning millions of jobs everywhere. Just for the fun of it, make a list of how many people would lose their jobs if just one sport were done away with, let alone all sports. What needs to be done is to create salary caps in all pro sports. The sports situation needs to redesigned, not eliminated. Here's my partial list,feel free to add to it: The players/athletes themselves, coaches, trainers, equipment managers, front office personnel, ticket sellers, ticket takers, all vendors, food suppliers, food deliverers, ticket printers, custodians, sport equipment makers and suppliers, uniform makers, ground crews, scoreboard operators, and so on ad infinitum. I'm out of characters to work with GO4IT

Answer 1

These people are obviously not sports fans. I understand someone not liking a particular sport, but to do away with all is ridiculous. These people obviously do not have a competitive bone in them. That puts them at the bottom of the free enterprise world. Therefore they are jealous of anyone or anything successful. As for overpaying them, that is relative. I bet they would not turn down a raise stating they are paid enough as it is. Every business regardless of what that business is has employees that are underpaid and some are overpaid. We do not wish these companies to disappear just because of that - although I know some personally that could and it would not break my heart.

Answer 2

Well said.