The sports of today have changed the way the players play the game. Starting on the professional sports level, bad sportsmanship behaviors, like the use of steroids or “throwing” a game or a match in an effort to please the sports gambler trying to get their big pay-off, has trickled down through the college level and even down to the high school level. One person recalls the days when athletes played their sport for the love of the game, because it is what they lived for. They remember when they were younger, sitting in their grandfather’s lap and watching the Atlanta Braves (in the days of Dale Murphy, Bob Horner, Glenn Hubbard and other great names in Braves history) running out on the diamond every game. In fact, they quoted country artist, Collin Raye, saying [I’ve been] “a Braves fan even through the rotten years”. Watching these games, they remember looking up at their grandfather’s face and seeing the look he had in his eyes by watching these guys play their sport from the heart. Now, years later, sports have been threatened by strikes. The athletes playing now aren’t playing because they love to, but now it’s more about the money and how much they can make. Sports of today are tainted and don’t come from the heart. The kids today need to be taught what it was like “in the good ole’ days” and how playing sports teaches an individual about how to work with other people and how to pull together as a family.
Glancing back at the advancement of games, it has gone from a gathering of competitors that played an amusement they adored entire heartedly, to a gathering of competitors that play a diversion fundamentally for voracity; gone from a gathering cooperating and utilizing their encounters to help other people, to perceiving how great they can make themselves look. Fans have endured players’ strikes so they can get more cash-flow. They have begun utilizing “execution upgrading drugs” to get greater muscles so they can out do their very own colleagues. Sports reports talk about how an individual won as opposed to the group winning. Respectability and collaboration need to begin at the secondary school dimension of games so these youthful competitors will know how it feels to cooperate in general. It will profit them in all parts of their lives, from school to family and that is something to be glad for.
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