Why Sports No Longer Matter

The "Deflategate" scandal involving the New England Patriots sounds small and even ridiculous, until you see the larger pattern involving athletes and anti-social behavior. New England Quarterback Tom Brady has been exposed as another asshole jock together with Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, and Jose Canseco, among others. Remember how we grew up being told that "sports build character?" It seems that the "characters" that sports build fall somewhere between narcissism and sociopathy. So much for "teamwork" and "self discipline." Maybe it mattered when Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics or when Jackie Robinson made it into the Major Leagues in 1947. Today, sports have just become another form of trashy entertainment, a reflection of everything that's wrong with the world today.