Pro athletes are entertainers. When they cease to be entertaining, they get into trouble. The idea of a privately owned team, often owned by someone who does not live in that city, and composed of members from all over the place, actually representing a city or area is sort of hard to take seriously. When I was in high school I used to watch the games, and they were interesting, since I knew the people playing. After that, I lost interest, because there is no reason I should care what this bozo working for that other bozo, neither of whom has a thing to do with the city, does with a ball. Sports are often good exercise, but watching sports is a waste of time to me.
Nascar, where we watch rolling billboards run around and around in circles, waiting for one or more of them to crash and burst into flames is even more boring.
It doesn't bother me that people actually enjoy watching such nonsense, but to take the disciplining or lack of same of some grown man who plays with a ball seriously strikes me as a pretty immature way of relating to the world around one.