Wyovanian said:
I guess it's mostly because I grew up in a college town with a D1 College Football program instead of a city with a pro team, but, I've never understood the deep emotional investment in professional sports. Especially in instances where the team can load onto trucks in the middle of the night and move to another city. I just can't feel all that deeply for privately owned organizations (or any brand, really) staffed by millionaires.
I see the draw with both - with pro you do get your legends that sometimes spend a decade or longer with the team just because it's where they want to be, while in college you have at most 4 years of a single athlete. The pros also play at the highest level there is, generally (then again, I love Colorado Eagles even if they're two levels removed from the NHL).
With college you get an entirely different level of passion, schools that have played the game since the 1800s, athletes who picked your school because that's who they want to represent, not because (most of the time) they were the highest bidder or happened to have whatever draft pick.
At large, I still find it weird that college athletics is a thing, and yet I absolutely love it.
On the flip side, I can't stand what's going on in some sports (especially the NFL) with Billionaire owners taking cities and their tax payers hostage to spend tax money to build stadiums and then the Billionaires still get all the profit, like Las Vegas with Adelson. Suuuuure the increased hotel taxes is all it'll take to cover the construction costs - that's why the city itself has to cover if it doesn't, right? Compare that to the new NHL arena there that was constructed completely with private funds, just like the Pepsi Center in Denver.
St. Louis still has $140 Million to go before they've paid off the stadium they built for the Rams.
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). The Cubs have been something very important to my family starting with my Grandpa. He passed away a number of years ago but I know he would have loved to see them in the WS. Heading to Chicago for the weekend with my Wife, Brother, Cousin, and Aunt(flying all the way from Europe) to experience this.
