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Old 05-31-2018, 04:48 PM   #235
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Only by way of a very loosely construed definition of "professional." There were elite athletic competitions in antiquity, but nothing even remotely comparable to modern-day professional sports. There was no sporting economies, and athletics were not vocations.

I am of two minds on this: I believe most likely either supplanted by another form of entertainment—which I suspect will emerge with the evolution of VR and role-playing to supplant all current forms of entertainment. On the other hand, I have a more dystopian view by which our future environmental and social concerns will overtake most of our leisure pursuits.
Now that I'm picturing it, I have a hard time imagining caring too much about professional sports myself.

In a world where everyone is in control of a fantasy they can journey to whenever they want... it's hard to think of sitting in an arena watching elitist barbarians play on a flat ice. I'll go home and embarrass Legacy-Crosby in my ice-dome at home.

To your latter mind... I'm rocking in a corner forgetting you suggested it.
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