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Originally Posted by rotten42
Hmmmm...seasons tickets to the Flames or spend 3 weeks over Christmas and New Years with the Family in Mexico each year? No contest. I'll pick the trip every time.
Its also getting harder and harder to related to pro sports players these days.
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These are the 2 main factors IMO.
Part of he relatability of sports figures is outside of their control though. We expect sports figures to be puritan boy scouts. Every time a young guy goes to the bar it becomes front page news. It's partially a societal change in what we consider "bad behaviour" and partially the constant scrutiny caused by increased access to the court systems and cameras everywhere. This is partially good and partially bad. I'm not saying that sports stars should go back to being chauvinistic rapists, but there has to be some middle grown and acknowledgement that we are dealing with human beings.
The attitudes of sports stars have also changed. I think that's partially due to entitlement issues but also due to the fact they are expected to work so much harder now. The conditioning of modern sports stars is insane. There's no room for the fun loving relaxed, yet insanely talented guy. You have to be a work horse that sacrifices everything. What athletes have to put into their sport to achieve breed a single personality type. Unfortunately that personality type is not overly pleasant or charismatic.
And yes, the increasing price of tickets is damaging sports. There are no more "cheap seats" with the families and characters. Having to spend almost $200 to see a game, after tickets some food and a couple of beers, is awful. Half the time you end up at a boring game or a blowout. It's hard to justify the cost. Both games I went to last year were Elliott games. In both, he let in 2 soft goals right away and the rest of the games were garbage.