My solution to this is to realize that this is exactly why modern broadcast sports even exist; as a means to make money. All of the rivalries, drama, and theatr

My solution to this is to realize that this is exactly why modern broadcast sports even exist; as a means to make money. All of the rivalries, drama, and theatre around it exists to reinforce the idea that you must watch to see who wins the Big Shiny this season. This ruins the fun of watching skilled humans competing in a game for me; they might as well have Slurpee straws as sticks, Oscar Meyer hotdogs as skates, bat around a Coke bottle into a Doritos net while skying over a giant Chipotle burrito with 14 different LED screens showing various logos. We’re not far off from this right now; big sports is an assault of advertising on the senses, and people PAY to go, clamor for “access” to watch it on TV, put up with hostile “blackout” policies, and buy tons of memorabilia. If we could get that many people to care about something that actually mattered, the world would be a better place. I really hope that my generation ends up killing this brand of professional sports.