Professional Athletes

 

Years ago, I was very athletic, I played first base in baseball, forward in basketball, middle linebacker in football, and threw the shot, discuss, and javelin in track and field.  

I also played softball and volleyball.  I was pretty good, but I was not great; I suppose I could have become great if I had practiced but I was engaged in other interests, so there was not one area that manipulated my time.

My father loved sports as well focusing on football and tennis and when I was living at home, those were the sports that we watched on television on the weekends or during the holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Over the years, I got tired of watching sports; I'm not sure why, I just did.  The players got paid way to much money and they lived celebrity lifestyles that embraced recklessness, alcohols, sex, and drugs.

If professional athletes were ever role models in my mind, but the age of 50, they were no longer in that category.

Professional athletics is a multibillion-dollar industry these days and like all industries that large they have their problems.  In the past, athletes were associated with the selling of products, now they are associated with politicians.

That alone negatively taints their profession in my mind.  They have a right to endorse politicians don't get me right, I just don't think it is appropriate.