The impact of professional sports in America is profound, especially in today's youth. Children look up to professional athletes and idolize them, they watch their every move in hopes of one day being just like them. This can have a positive or negative impact depending on whether the athlete makes good or bad choices in his life or. For example most parents were extremely shocked and offended when Micheal Vick was accused of partaking in illegal underground dog fights. Kids looking up to him could possibly feel that it is 'OK' to treat animals poorly and abuse them. Someone such as Lance Armstrong as a role model could be very motivational, knowing his story of fighting and eventually beating cancer and going on to with the Tour De France seven consecutive years.
Professional athletes also have some of the highest salaries in America. baseball players on average get paid more than one million dollars a year which is 50 times more than what the average American makes. This can be very influential in today's youth, who want to make that much money as well and put all of their eggs in the basket of becoming a professional athlete, when the odds of that happening are extremely miniscule. The impacts from professional sports with money on society is also immense, as said in an article on http://www.helium.com, citizens spend anywhere from tens, hundreds or even thousands of dollars on professional sports games to see their favorite athletes perform. Large corporations and top business executives will even rent out luxury box's to give their potential clients a expensive experience.
Some of the positive attributes that professional sports gives America is the motivation for children to get up and move around. Tiny Tot sports leagues are extremely popular with today's youth, they give the children the opportunity to play the same positions as their professional idols. In a world with ever increasing childhood obesity, having role models that encourage physical activity is extremely valuable. With everything being said, there are a lot of arguments for both sides concerning whether currently the way the professional sports leagues are affecting society are beneficial or not, no matter what your views are on this subject, it does not seem as if professional sports will be changing how they do things for a while.
Professional sports are not beneficial to the youth in our society. Many of the youths in the country grow up seeing their dads watching and idolizing athletes that are on television. These kids than believe that in order to be totally loved by their parents they must be good at sports. For those who can excel at sports this is no problem, but for those who do not this can be very depressing. Many kids then turn to other crowds in which they feel accepted, and in some cases this makes kids turn to the drug crowd. All this can happen just because a kid does not feel loved bu his dad because he can not live up to the athletes on tv.
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