What's Going On With Sports These Days

If you're a sports fan these days, everything that is going on in the world of sports is just frustrating. It has come down to giving personal fouls on a touchdown celebration that involves saluting the troops, who can get the most money, and molesting little kids behind closed doors. I just do not understand how all this is happening.

Look, first of all, penalties should not be given for touchdown celebrations, especially when it involves saluting our troops. How much power and ego do these refs have. I mean can someone tell them that nobody, in the stadium or watching on TV, is watching the referees. Please! This happens in all sports and they need to realize the game is not about them and nobody will ever know their name, until they screw up extremely like Jim Joyce. NOBODY CAME TO WATCH YOU! They paid good money to watch the players compete at the highest level of the game.

Second of all, The NBA owners need to take the D-League players and say, "Congratulations, you made it to the NBA!" And they need to play with the D-League players who make a fraction of what some of these selfish NBA players make. I understand that you want $50,000 more, but some people don't even make that in a year, so shut up and go play. The game will go on with or without you. It may not be right away, but believe me, someone will carry on the tradition. What makes these athletes today think they are bigger than the game itself. And I am an athlete myself!

And finally, how can we trade the molestation of little kids for a good coach. Not God or Jesus, but just a basic good coach. Nobody should look at a situation and say, "Well he is a good coach, so we will let this stuff slide." NOOOOOO!!! There are plenty of good coaches out there who can do just as good, if not a better job than he was doing. Come on people! What is happening to the world of sports, and just the world in general.

These things should not be happening. We take sports really seriously here in the United States, and for these things to be happening is just not okay. I am currently an athlete, but as a fan, I refuse to see NBA players get more money so they can buy more tattoos to show off during the game. Fans are paying for those and I do not know how some fans do it. Prices soar and fans just give in. I know sports are great, but who wants to pay $100 for a Laker game, $9 for a beer, and $12 for some nachos. Not me. Let's just get back to the way sports should be. Get paid what you get paid, and go out there and play. Sports these days make me sick and I hope they turn around here in the near future.