Represent !
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I usually stand alone in pretty much any stance I take, be it social, political, religious...virtually everything. So here I go again. But if there are just a few of you out there who can agree with me, you would make my day...
I HATE sports. Yes, I said it. I particularly hate football, but I'm an equal opportunity hater when it comes to virtually any sport that pays people millions for batting a ball around.
Years ago my state had a football stadium that was deemed unusable by the team. We have extreme weather here, and their argument was that they needed a heated dome. Despite the fact that not everybody is a football fan, our tax payers delivered a billion dollar dome. Now after a couple of decades, the team decides it wants a regular good ol' fashion stadium (again?). The team is threatening to leave unless the state pays for this new stadium.
Needless to say, I'm pissed. Not only are the team players and their owner obscenely wealthy, they expect people who are jobless, homeless and in between to pay for their fickle whim. It would be insulting enough if we weren't going through global economic crisis, but now I'm so angry that if it were possible, I'd want each and every member of that team physically assaulted in the worst possible ways.
To add further insult to injury, our baseball team committed this same egregious act a couple of years ago. Not only do our social programs get cut, we have to pay billions to appease their sense of entitlement. Never mind that they forced eminent domain on the homes of many families to build the thing.
And what happens to the 'old' stadiums (that are structurally sound)? They get torn down. All that money, all that building debris tossed in a landfill.
All I'm asking for is a little support in my bitterness. Anybody?
I HATE sports. Yes, I said it. I particularly hate football, but I'm an equal opportunity hater when it comes to virtually any sport that pays people millions for batting a ball around.
Years ago my state had a football stadium that was deemed unusable by the team. We have extreme weather here, and their argument was that they needed a heated dome. Despite the fact that not everybody is a football fan, our tax payers delivered a billion dollar dome. Now after a couple of decades, the team decides it wants a regular good ol' fashion stadium (again?). The team is threatening to leave unless the state pays for this new stadium.
Needless to say, I'm pissed. Not only are the team players and their owner obscenely wealthy, they expect people who are jobless, homeless and in between to pay for their fickle whim. It would be insulting enough if we weren't going through global economic crisis, but now I'm so angry that if it were possible, I'd want each and every member of that team physically assaulted in the worst possible ways.
To add further insult to injury, our baseball team committed this same egregious act a couple of years ago. Not only do our social programs get cut, we have to pay billions to appease their sense of entitlement. Never mind that they forced eminent domain on the homes of many families to build the thing.
And what happens to the 'old' stadiums (that are structurally sound)? They get torn down. All that money, all that building debris tossed in a landfill.
All I'm asking for is a little support in my bitterness. Anybody?