Hold on to your brains, fans!

Sports fans are not necessarily dumb but when a person, even the smartest one, is acting as a sports fan he seems to forget everything he has learnt in his life and swallow all the propagandas the professional sport machine spills out. This is particularly true when it comes to players. Any adult should have learnt, before adulthood, that human are flawed. Yet, when it comes it their favourite players, fans think they can do no wrong. Fans watch TV that tells them their favourite players are heroes of the city, collectively rescue every citizen’s pride from total destruction, and they believe it. As soon as these players start to under perform, they can do no right; as if collectively or single-handedly they stomp on everyone’s pride. This continues to the most passionate issue--player’s salary. Fans first swallow the lie that fans pay for the players. The owners like everyone to think so to put everyone on their side. In truth, the players are paid by the company that owns the team. Fans pay the company to watch the players play. The ticket price is determined by the price level at which the teams can make the most money off spectators. It is a fallacy then that the ticket price is determined by player’s salary. Do you think if the team can sell out a section at $100 they will cut the price to $75 because the players take a pay cut? I don’t think so. Nothing will lower prices as much as prohibiting corporate sales and allow outside food and drinks into stadiums. That won’t happen, will it? If fans won’t pay for ticket prices they consider too high then the prices will come down. That is what we all do when shop for other things. But if there are people who would pay that price, then we can have no complaints. We don’t usually complain that the best cars are unfairly priced out of our range. We don’t complain that working family cannot afford 28 days aged Angus prime ribs. Why complain about not being able to afford NHL. Watch it at home, go to minor hockey, hold on to your intelligence and stop whining like a little idiot.