IF you want to do something useful with your time saved by not watching the games, get and read Edward Luce's latest book "The Retreat of Western Liberalism".  Don't let the Liberalism word put you off.  He's detailing the destruction the Middle Class in America.  He says "No thriving middle class, no democracy".  Our meritocracy is dead.  Children born in the bottom quartile of income have close to zero chance to rise up.  We are moving to a plutocracy.  Read, learn and become active politically.  The country is worth saving and the wealth worth sharing more equitably as it was in the 1950's to the middle 1970's.  In the 1950's, CEO's made 60x their average employee's earnings, now it is 400x.  That is a greedy plutocracy.  And median (50% make less, 50% make more) family income has not moved for two decades.  It is now $50,000.  If it had grown at the same rate as it was, it would be $97,000.  Think about that.