Pro Sports Has Lost Sportsmanship

The NFL  is having a debate right now about the use of the N word.   The NFL is trying to make their game all access. The day just may come when not only will cameras  be on helmets but microphones will be there too.  The NFL since TV started broadcasting games in the fifties have had those hand held dishes held by sound men trying to pick up as much as possible the sounds of the games.

The games if it is to become all access then viewers don't want every other word bleeped off the screen because the language used is not viewable by a family audience.
Not only will the N word need to go but so will The MF word, or the GD word, or the SOB word or any word not worthy to be spoken at the dinner table.

Somewhere in the world of pro sports the the motto 'it is not whether you win or lose but how you play the game' has been lost. It is my feeling that anyone who makes a half million dollars a year or more should act the part of an intelligent human being over a street hood.

Despite what Charles Barkley said years ago that he was not a role model, he is whether he wants to be or not.  A ten year old can be a role model for a four year old if that four year old admires him.  Professional athletes who have youngsters wearing their jersies are role models to them because their actions are watched almost constantly by those who idolize them.

All pro sports needs to clean up their act.  Baseball players need to quit chewing tobacco because that is surely an influence.  There is plenty as athletes that would improve our future if professional sports require their players to act professional.  Not that long ago the NBA made their players go back to dressing up when traveling.  There was plenty of backlash in the beginning but now there are plenty of dudes that dress to kill now-a-days.

Our world is headed in the wrong direction.  Players are applauded when they opening tell the world of their life styles and the world  rejoices.  One of the best moves made by high schools and colleges was when they made everyone shake hands when the games are over.  It hasn't always been that way.

Since just about everyone watches sports on TV one of the best places to start changing the world back to a respectable world is sports.  It wouldn't hurt movies and regular TV to improve too.
Sportsmanship is about the words you speak while the action is going on as well as after making a tackle you run away from your teammates so you can show boat your one tackle on the night.  This world has a lot of cleaning up to do but cleaning up language is at least a start.