Justneedme81
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I'm not trying to start an argument but from what I just read .. would you say this would come off as entitled fans who think they should get an apology from the players?Players ādonāt owe fans anythingā? Wow! We definitely donāt ageee on this for sure. Now I get that Iām old but a big part of whatās wrong with sports today is the players donāt respect the role fans have in the game. Namely, without the fans there wouldnāt be any places for players to play at the collegiate level. And there wouldnāt be a professional level at all. In the past there was a symbiotic relationship between players and fans. Without players thereās no need for fans and vice versa. If one doesnāt respect the other then as with all such relationships a break will eventually occur. At present, the TV money allows the imbalance favoring the owners and the players. Though, the kind of money theyāre throwing at sports canāt continue to escalate as it has the past 20 years unless Americaās population increases more dramatically than it has during those years. And the demographics of the population increases donāt favor the owners and the players either for that matter.
I could go on but Iāll conclude with one other point. The game Iāve loved passionately my entire life doesnāt hold me as it once did. And the money Iāve invested because of my passion wonāt continue with my children and grandchildren. Thatās one thing ESPN and others in the media may have miscalculated. The millennials do not share the devotion to college football prior generations had with the game. Ask anyone attached with athletic fundraising at the university level if itās not a big concern? I know from personal experience that it is. If viewership doesnāt increase the TV money will slow and if millennials and generation xāers arenāt willing to donate the chunks of money their parents and grandparents did where will the ever increasing amounts of money for the players come from in the future? The only other place it can ā¦ from the blue collar fans. But if theyāre not respected by the players you can bet they wonāt spend their hard earned money enriching them.