I played most sports in high school. I am not very tall so basketball was the one sport I did not play.
Over the years in the interest of getting richer most sports have changed their rules so that they encourage more scoring. I find women's basketball to be more fun to watch than what now passes for basketball in the NBA. I had a good friends whose family had season tickets for the Knicks. We were almost dead center court and on the rail in the first section above floor level. But when Latrell Sprewell choked his coach and was allowed to remain in the league and the Knicks then took him, I gave up watching basketball at all, I have not looked back.
I used to be an avid Football fan stating in about 1967. I even bet with a bookie in the 1980s. Now I cannot remember the last game I watched from start to finish. Rules changes makes it not much fun to watch any more. Soon it will become a penalty if one actually tackles a quarterback. NFL now means to me,
Nobody
Likes
Football.
I do not mind the DH in baseball. Watching 99/100 automatic outs by the pitchers was not exactly exciting baseball. But the most recent changes have also degraded the game. A lot of the strategy has been removed from the game. But the TV folks wanted shorter games. Baseball is not a sport with a game clock, or it used to be.
But it is all about viewership. The older fans do not like most of the current rules in many sports. The younger fans, who know nothing of the history of the game, want action which, to them, means scoring.
Sportsmanship has died ans been replaced by greed. I think football started to lose me when they started the stupidity of an end zone celebration after a score. Yep, makes sense to me that when your team is losing 42 - 3 and somebody scores in the final 5 minutes to make the score 40-10, this deserves an end zone dance?
When will there be a 4 point shot in basketball? When will hockey just be all fighting - no net, no puck no goalie, just 12 guys with sticks, or better yet clubs, on skates trying the beat heck out of each other?
The future of baseball?