Social critic criticism....the end of Arenaball

Guy Baldwin


   Arena football was an attempt by the industrial sports complex to get more corporate money flowing to the industry instead of investing and adding to the workforce. The Chicago Slaughter canceled the rest of their season at the corporate named Sears Centre in the crappy sprawl suburb of Hoffman Estates. This is the first time since 2001 that the Chicago area has been spared an arena football indoor season that few discuss nor care about. Most people in attendance get their tickets free from their companies who feel the need to give these tickets as a gift. Sears centre general manager ben Gibbs is desperate to have a tenant in the publicly funded center that has been a disaster since opening and he feels confident some group will bring a team next year as new owners will eventually be found and a bank foolish enough to invest in something that will undoubtedly go bust. Arena football is all about a desperate attempt to bring money to arenas and the thinking goes somehow pro footballs popularity will translate into profits for an unnecessary sports complex in towns across America. Sports serves as a public distraction from politics and how business leaders use influence to improv their enormous economic prosperity. That is why you see all these ultra wealthy rich guys own big time sports organizations. The b guys are the ones that want to bring you dull Arena football and indoor soccer into a tax funded arena near you.

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