Choose as many as you want.
EDIT: Bah. "You can only add a poll to a thread within 5 minutes of posting the thread."
If a moderator would wish to insert the poll, the choices were as following and respondents would be allowed to choose more than one:
- "Win a championship — anything else is failure"
- Head coach / manager carousel
- Obscenely large salaries and profits
- Rising costs of attending and viewing games
- "Balkanization" of sports viewing opportunities
- Lack of player loyalty to team / school / city
- Sports gambling possibly tainting results
- Ubiquitous, relentless, juvenile commercials
- Cheating / performance enhancement drugs
- Too much analysis and statistics
- Obnoxious, vulgar fans
- Frequent player injuries
- There is something else bothering me (specify in a post)
- Nothing! Professional sports is just fine as it is.
I thought a poll would be interesting but it really was not my purpose. I was planning to vote for the first 12 items, all of which bother me about professional sports today.
For, I have realized in the past several days that my ideal of "Pan-Sportsism" is a chimera. What I thought would be an elevation from parochial sports rooting, toward an interest in other teams and sports, is in fact a growing disillusionment with following professional sports at all.