“What ever happened to sport like this any way” asked Riley.
“Oh they don made it illegal in that urban world” quipped Mort.
“Illegal” asked one of the younger players.
“Yes son illegal” answered Jon.
“But why would they make a sport like this illegal dad” asked Chris.
“Probably because we men liked to play it too much” said Riley.
Jon then began to explain the on goings that had made many sports illegal.
“It actually started long before the actual laws were passed. At the turn of the century many parents started to look on football as being too violent for their kids. Football, as they said was to rough with too many injuries. As such they adopted other sports that they thought were less tough like soccer. Football fields began to be replaced by soccer fields and so it went. Then in the second decade even soccer was too rough so they changed the rules to forbid any contact and of course they quit keeping score so as not to deflate losers.”
“Football and Baseball and many other sports fell into ill favor. Then there was a move that collegiate sports should also be removed and only club sports that were voluntary were kept. It was driven by the notion that college should be available to all and in order to pay for that it was felt that any expenditure on sports or expensive coaches was wasteful and those dollars could be put toward providing other salaries. Of course as usual the bureaucrats made a huge mistake in this because they did not comprehend that much of the money that went to the sports did not come from taxation, it came from donations and buying school paraphernalia.”
“So when the money wasn’t there to promote those plans they of course raised taxes to cover the loss.”
“College Football was gone and with it soon professional as many felt that the salaries athletes made was also not worth it. Then of course all the other sports died as well. The final rationalization of the loss of sports was that it was an unnecessary risk that brought on injuries that the National Health care system should not pay for.” And when finally everybody went to a world government system there was no turning back.”
“God what the hell has this world become” quipped Riley.
“A place that we don’t want any part of; a place where there is no risk, no reward, no life, no pleasure, no blood sweat and tears.” replied Jon.
“And the sad part is we let it happen or rather it happened and we stood by until the point where we could do nothing about it.”
The Book is called Jon Smith......written by Richard Proctor....also know as The Colorado Jacket....me
