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sport. There were regulations on types of ball, playing field, player interaction, and spectator intervention.

Promotional companies hired scouts to find the better players and insure that teams were able to compete at

the same and hopefully higher levels than expected. The sports industry became a social status which

brought with it fame and fortune for both players and management. Sports records were also being kept for

the first time, so it was possible to follow a players performance. Sports magazines became popular

methods of transferring information between players, owner!

s, and the spectators. Sports became popular to the rich for obvious economic reasons, but all economics

have a bad side and sports soon showed its ugly side.

Along with the good change in sports came a bad change. Since the players were

typically younger men who concentrated on pushing their physical abilities beyond that of the average man,

it could only stand to reason that they would require higher levels of relaxation to return to the normal

level. This resulted in a sub-culture surrounding sports which included drinking, gambling, swearing,

sexual activity, and a general loss of self-control. In essence, a new breed of man had emerged which only

sought to better his own ability at the expense of society. Instead of curbing this appetite, the sports

industry tended to overlook the social shortcomings and focus on the bigger economic gains to be realized

by a players performance.

Sports serve a good purpose in society and help to provide entertainment for the

spectators. This aspect can’t be overlooked when judging the sports industry because something will

always take its place it it is removed. It is much better to allow people the luxury of making their own

choices and hold them responsible within the legal limits. Our job as spectators is to maintain a good role

model for this industry and allow it to consume our society.

References

All refernces for these essays have been taken from class lecture tapes and the lecture notes published by

Dr Stephen Mintz on the WWW.

Side note:These essays appear to have one central theme:

Economics drive the social attitude and people tend to follow the trends set by this standard whether it is

beneficial,. . . or not.