Brett Favre Makes It Official: Sports are Only a Business

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Published: August 23, 2009

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... United Way, Goodwill, your local food pantry, your local school district.

Looking for something to cheer? A high school football team, a cheerful grocery store checkout person, a doctor who saved your child's life?

Looking for new clothing? Goodwill, a t-shirt you designed for your family reunion, a United Way t-shirt that says "I gave to my Community".

Whether all the pundits, the sports fans, the celebrity followers, the sometimes football fans want to admit it or not, the Minnesota Vikings' signing of Brett Favre was like the final nail in the coffin of folks who believed there are heroes still left in pro sports.

Pro sports consist of team owners who enjoy special monopoly laws endorsed and enforced by the U.S. congress. Pro sports team owners and players don't give a crap about who wins the championship this year: they just want to get paid.

No pro athlete or team owner (except publicly owned teams) cares about you. As long as the team and ath...

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