People who hate sports and make comments like "its just men playing with their balls", as if their preferred activities are altruistic and universally loved. Don't like sports, cool, but no need to attack other people just because you don't understand something. I would never want to run a marathon or go bungee jumping or sew my own clothes, but there is no need for me to mercilessly mock the people who do.
If you go back and read my comments in full, with attention, you'll find my objections in that particular section are having our community taxed for $30,000,000 for that "privilege" (a sum that represents EIGHTEEN PERCENT OF OUR CITY'S ANNUAL GROSS REVENUE), forcing other people to subsidize their enjoyment, and ludicrously thinking they are real men because their team won.
I have no problem with people who just enjoy watching or playing sports. Hope they have a wonderful time doing so. I don't even mind paying taxes for modest facilities in city parks so citizens have a place to play one another. That's a great use of tax dollars.
If someone put forward a case study in which they spent EIGHTEEN PERCENT of their gross income on JUST ONE OF MANY sports activities, and yet had serious financial issues in their life and claimed they couldn't afford to deal with the others, we would all be merciless in our disdain of their choices. That's where I am on my city's boondoggle of a stadium.
And, having seen this scenario play out over and over and over and over all across my country the last 5 decades, I'm just over being polite about it. It's ludicrous that the highest paid state officials in most states are coaches. Simply ludicrous. So, yes, we going millions of dollars into debt so people can watch men play with their balls in public.
People who enjoy the tax dollars squandered on the sports industrial complex aren't used to being held accountable for the foolishness of that use of our scarce public resources. I think they should be. Given that there's always someone's brother-in-law who'll make a killing on the land deal for a stadium, and on another deal to build the stadium, and by the news media who get income from advertising and covering these activities, and the politicians who will get votes for providing these facilities, surely my little voice of scorn can be ignored by sports enthusiasts. It will certainly be ignored by anyone in power.