Pro athletes are teenage and 20-something guys in tight pants whose job is to play with a ball. Regardless whether they are America-hating commies or flag-waving veteran-panderers, why would anyone care what their political opinions are?? Seriously, if you do then to me it suggests you have some weird fixation on these young men in tight pants.
If there's nothing else on, why not go to the garage and build something, or read a book, or write a letter to an old friend, or work out, or talk with your wife, or do basically ANY OTHER ACTIVITY besides sitting on the couch staring at a screen?? (Popping in to check on the screen is the same thing just reduced In scale.) In a few short decades you'll be dead. Why fill your precious hours with televised kids in tight pants playing games with balls? Maybe if one of them was YOUR kid I could understand...but even then, my mom doesn't show up at my office to watch me do my job.
What explains this? I can't fathom it.