In today’s society there is noting that captures the hearts of the masses quite like a typical sporting event. From basketball to American football fans all over the world are always raving to see two teams engage in the highest levels of competition. Sporting events have become commonplace in the entertainment landscape of today, yet when looking closely at the events themselves they become much more sinister. Sports in fact can bring out the worst and most violent tendencies that mankind has to offer, and this applies to both the players and the spectators.
On any given weekend in the fall millions of Americans will be heading to stadiums or purchasing premium cable sports packages just so they can see their favorite team in action. Yet what they are paying to see is so much more than ja simple game. They are watching athletes compete in what boils down to an organized excuse for violence. Combat fro the amusement of the masses is nothing new to human vulture. Similar practices date back to before the gladiators of Ancient Rome. Humans may have evolved from simply killing each other for sport, but that doesn’t make what modern gladiators do on the field any less vile. Football is a game where one team tries to move the ball down the field one hundred yards and score seven points. This all while the opposing team tries to bludgeon the team with the ball into submission. If they succeed in blocking any ball movement then that team gets a chance with the ball and the other team gets a chance to cause as much damage as they possibly can. Football truly has become what gladiator matches were to Ancient Rome. This practice is truly barbaric. Injury is just a big a part of the game as scoring points is nowadays. Now, some would argue that players are more than compensated for the ordeal they go though on a weekly basis. At the professional level this may be true. However, at the collegiate level players are receiving nothing for butting themselves though such hardship and it’s all for an unlikely chance that maybe one day they’ll hit it big and make it to the pros themselves. Society has thought them that signing a pro contract is the zenith of human existence and to play a sport and not achieve that is a waste of a life. The athletic lifestyle is predicated by the dreams of an eventual payout that will likely never arrive. These young football players will risk injury and but their bodies through hell just because society has told them that this is the only way to succeed The general public pays for admittance into opulent coliseums to watch two teams in peak physical condition beat the living daylights out of each other. Yet as medieval as the sports themselves maybe those paying to watch them can be equally brutal. Some of the largest structures in the world were built to showcase sports. Nowadays football stadiums can hold upwards of one hundred thousand screaming fans. The fact that they are screaming at all says volumes about the brutality of what is going on. The massive crowd has come so that they may yell cheers, threats, and other obscenities at the players and at other fans. Sports are by nature entertainment, yet they are treated as a different more obscene type of it. No one hauls cruses at actors during a musical theater performance, yet is perfectly acceptable to do so at a football game. At a …show more content…
The players are to busy thinking of victory, and the fans are having to much fun to care about exactly what is going on. The fact of it is a sporting event is quite literally young athletes in peak physical form harming each other for the amusement of a half inebriated audience. This is what passes for fun in this society. Sports reveal society’s proclivity for violence and debauchery and how it has in fact society has not evolved much from the ancient times of the Roman Coliseum. The human race seems to have a primal to either take part in to witness violence at the highest of levels no matter the cost, and then call it little more than a
On any given weekend in the fall millions of Americans will be heading to stadiums or purchasing premium cable sports packages just so they can see their favorite team in action. Yet what they are paying to see is so much more than ja simple game. They are watching athletes compete in what boils down to an organized excuse for violence. Combat fro the amusement of the masses is nothing new to human vulture. Similar practices date back to before the gladiators of Ancient Rome. Humans may have evolved from simply killing each other for sport, but that doesn’t make what modern gladiators do on the field any less vile. Football is a game where one team tries to move the ball down the field one hundred yards and score seven points. This all while the opposing team tries to bludgeon the team with the ball into submission. If they succeed in blocking any ball movement then that team gets a chance with the ball and the other team gets a chance to cause as much damage as they possibly can. Football truly has become what gladiator matches were to Ancient Rome. This practice is truly barbaric. Injury is just a big a part of the game as scoring points is nowadays. Now, some would argue that players are more than compensated for the ordeal they go though on a weekly basis. At the professional level this may be true. However, at the collegiate level players are receiving nothing for butting themselves though such hardship and it’s all for an unlikely chance that maybe one day they’ll hit it big and make it to the pros themselves. Society has thought them that signing a pro contract is the zenith of human existence and to play a sport and not achieve that is a waste of a life. The athletic lifestyle is predicated by the dreams of an eventual payout that will likely never arrive. These young football players will risk injury and but their bodies through hell just because society has told them that this is the only way to succeed The general public pays for admittance into opulent coliseums to watch two teams in peak physical condition beat the living daylights out of each other. Yet as medieval as the sports themselves maybe those paying to watch them can be equally brutal. Some of the largest structures in the world were built to showcase sports. Nowadays football stadiums can hold upwards of one hundred thousand screaming fans. The fact that they are screaming at all says volumes about the brutality of what is going on. The massive crowd has come so that they may yell cheers, threats, and other obscenities at the players and at other fans. Sports are by nature entertainment, yet they are treated as a different more obscene type of it. No one hauls cruses at actors during a musical theater performance, yet is perfectly acceptable to do so at a football game. At a …show more content…
The players are to busy thinking of victory, and the fans are having to much fun to care about exactly what is going on. The fact of it is a sporting event is quite literally young athletes in peak physical form harming each other for the amusement of a half inebriated audience. This is what passes for fun in this society. Sports reveal society’s proclivity for violence and debauchery and how it has in fact society has not evolved much from the ancient times of the Roman Coliseum. The human race seems to have a primal to either take part in to witness violence at the highest of levels no matter the cost, and then call it little more than a