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Professional sports have reached a point when the leagues are primarily about money, not about the games, as this article points at an example.

We should probably look way past the insignificant issue of licensing fees and see the much bigger problem.

The best way to fight the NFL is to simply NOT give them any business. Hey, I do not follow hockey, anyway...

Sarcasm aside though, the reason corporations or other business entities can make predatory rules is because they know people desperately want what these businesses sell. The complaining about the fees is the wrong course of action. It is time to look in the mirror and realize that these businesses have suckered us into handing over our hard-earned money.

Wake up. "Professional" sports these days are everything but, and "pro" athletes are everything but. Spectator sports have become nothing more than franchising spectacles, and no amount of enthusiastic commentary by overpaid, former-players/coaches-turned-anchors can convince me that there is a sliver of hope left for for-profit "pro" leagues to be relevant, inspirational, or worthy of my money or attention. What is next anyway? "Pro" athletes going on strike because they do not make enough millions? Oh, wait...

People would rather sit on their butt and watch overpaid, occasionally 'roid-juiced players running around on the screen. The same "fans" feel better about themselves by blowing insane amounts of money on "licensed" (meaning branded and therefore more expensive) merchandise, feeling better about their level of support for their team. Some people even look up to these "pro" athletes, worshiping them as heroes, regardless of how unethical these so-called "heroes" are, how many times they commit crimes or beat their spouses.

With such an overwhelming percentage of people being overweight these days, professional league licensing fees going out of control is a blessing. In a hopeful manner, people will just stop paying and get their butts outside to actually play sports instead of simply watching them.