Question: If you held your sports owners accountable for the product they sale would you get a better product? The same way you go to the grocery store and expect good products and good customer service. Of course you would so why is it that fans accept watered down and half arsed products from sports owners year after year?


I will use myself as an example because I happen to be the idiot I’m writing about today. I have Caps, Wizards, Redskins and Nationals season tickets. Shakespeare said "though this be madness, yet their be method in it" so for those of you thinking that I am some kind of business tycoon just throwing money around that is so not the case. I am a small business owner and as such these tickets come in very handy with my clients and my client’s clients when deciding whom to award contracts and subcontracts to. Those of you with businesses of your own you use every advantage you can so you know what I’m talking about. I consider these tickets an investment so it certainly helps my bottom line when my investments are holding up their part of the deal.


The only team in my dog house is my Washington Wizards. They are a team that does just enough to make the playoffs but they are always sent on early summer vacations once they get in. If the goal is to win a championship they seem to be stuck on stupid. Stevie Wonder can see that they do not play championship level defense yet they refuse to do anything about it. If I had a flaw in my business that a client told me about and I failed to correct it how big of an idiot would I be to expect that client to continue doing business with me? For that very reason the Wizards tickets will not be renewed. Until they improve the product I am content to sit this one out.


I love sports and I am still just as much a fan as I have always been but I am also wise enough to realize that sports is business. If someone were trying to sale me a substandard product I would not buy it and I do not care that it has been in my family for 50 years. Just because you have done something for as long as you can remember does not make it right.


The bottom line is sports franchise owners are like all other business owners. If you hold owners accountable for the products they sale you will get a better product. Stop thinking of sports as some separate bastion where reality is suspended because it is not. As we have seen with all of these cheating scandals of late sports is just as flawed as anything else humans endeavor to do. Owners are billionaires and players are millionaires and they stay rich because of fans like you and me. We actually control sports with how we spend our money so think about that the next time you are ready to plunk down a good portion of your recreational income to see a team giving you a half arsed effort or that you know is incapable of winning a champion in their respective sport.