Sport Society & Me
Sports
have always been a big part of my life.
My first sport I started playing as a kid was soccer but then I
eventually moved on to playing basketball and football, which I played for all
four years at my high school. To
me, sport means competition while making close relationships with your
teammates and your coach. My teammates
eventually felt like brothers and all of my coaches became somewhat of father
figures.
To
me, I think that sport plays a positive role for the most part because within a
team, it unifies and gives the players, coaches and staff a sense of togetherness
and unify everyone involved. For
the American society as a whole, I think that sport is a great spectacle and
form of entertainment that should be upheld. Although there can be opposing fans that may feel very
strongly about their teams and potentially don’t see eye to eye, the sports
culture still has an overall fun and competitive nature to it that almost
anyone can participate in if they choose to. Also, sports bring in a sizeable profit to the economy from
buying merchandise to going to the actual games.
The
successful athletes themselves are held in significantly high regard and
respect within the society mainly because of the entertainment that they bring
to the viewer. In addition to
this, successful athletes serve as role models to younger athletes who aspire
to peruse goals in their sporting career.
On the other hand athletes who are not successful or who do not carry
themselves with a respectable demeanor can inversely disrespected but regardless
if they are respected or disrespected, they are still social icons that are
highly talked about in our society.
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