... this is the anniversary (1892) of basketball's first official game ever. The game was played at the YMCA in Springfield, MA. The game was played by young Christian men, five on each team, to the joy and pleasure of players and spectators alike.
The game was played with dignity and civility; the focus was on exercise and constructive competition for young moral, god-fearing men.
The game of basketball has come a long way since those days; the focus is now materialism and win-at-all-costs stategies for gifted but spoiled, greedy, idolatrous young adults without much dignity or civility, lacking in fundamental character, morality, and common-sense ... absent any fear of God. One thing they do have though is an extensive criminal record!
My wife and I were avid Lakers fans up to the time Michael Johnson's fall from respect ... which led to other remarkable revelations by NBA stars whom we admired. Our children were teens at the time; the result was to agree we might as well remove our TV restrictions if we didn't respond to the moral failures of participants in the fabulous sport. We responded ... in fact, we no longer watch professional sports at all. [Galatians 6:7] 
Well, except the PBRA (and that doesn't mean Panhandler Barrel Racing Assoc.), which is predominately populated with young men like those who played in that first basketball game. Last year's finals purse was $1,000,000 so it won't be long before it too will be corrupt. My wife doesn't like NASCAR or NHRA but I do ... but they won't last long either.
I told Rita at the time, it would soon be an epidemic in every professional sport; we've lived to see the temporal fulfillment of my prophesy ... almost.
THE REST OF THE STORY? If fans don't start voting their pocketbooks and insist on moral responsibilty among professionals sports and their atheletes, it will get even worse. Observation and common sense tells me the fans won't ... fans are now almost as bad as the pros!
Greed has consumed any degree of morality professional sports once had. To their credit, some few professionals remain staunchly moral ... God's blessings on them.
HT: Wikipedia
The game was played with dignity and civility; the focus was on exercise and constructive competition for young moral, god-fearing men.
The game of basketball has come a long way since those days; the focus is now materialism and win-at-all-costs stategies for gifted but spoiled, greedy, idolatrous young adults without much dignity or civility, lacking in fundamental character, morality, and common-sense ... absent any fear of God. One thing they do have though is an extensive criminal record!
Well, except the PBRA (and that doesn't mean Panhandler Barrel Racing Assoc.), which is predominately populated with young men like those who played in that first basketball game. Last year's finals purse was $1,000,000 so it won't be long before it too will be corrupt. My wife doesn't like NASCAR or NHRA but I do ... but they won't last long either.
I told Rita at the time, it would soon be an epidemic in every professional sport; we've lived to see the temporal fulfillment of my prophesy ... almost.
THE REST OF THE STORY? If fans don't start voting their pocketbooks and insist on moral responsibilty among professionals sports and their atheletes, it will get even worse. Observation and common sense tells me the fans won't ... fans are now almost as bad as the pros!
Greed has consumed any degree of morality professional sports once had. To their credit, some few professionals remain staunchly moral ... God's blessings on them.
HT: Wikipedia
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