Sexy For All The Wrong Reasons

                Cue the cheesy soap opera organ. :When we last left our famous and informative blogger, he was about to tell us why football is so popular. What does he know that so few people know? Why is football so popular despite its shady background? How will this blog affect how people view sports? All this and more will be revealed in this episode of "Thoughts from the chair!" Dun dun dun!!!!!!!!: OK, enough of that nonsense. Last time I wrote, I explained that the NFL is way too popular of a sport. Why though? Why is pro football the most popular sport in the world with college football being arguably second and the NBA being third? The reason may shock and surprise some but not others. The reason is that all 3 sports mentioned above are all sexy sports. Sexy in the sense that all 3 have dirty laundry attached to them. From Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg, to recruiting scandals in College Football, to rappers spewing abrasive lyrics and it being accepted and condoned in the NBA. This dirty laundry stems  from another somewhat morbid truth that needs to be  addressed. This truth may not be heard by many. I may be severely scolded for even suggesting the idea of the truth. That truth is deep down inside we Americans love bad news. I realize it's extremely difficult to digest, but once you really think about it, you'll know it to be true. Do people honestly believe that there's not a correlation between the popularity in sports and the controversies that elude the most popular sports in America? A great example of my theory would be hockey. During its season, if you're lucky, you will see one to two highlights of Hockey games on SportsCenter. Some people may believe that this is because hockey is boring. After all, who in their right mind would want to watch grown men run up and down on ice for 3 hours give or take? However, I take the lack of popularity of hockey from a different angle. Here's a question to ponder regarding my view. When is the last time you heard of a scandal in the NHL? When was the last time you heard or read a hockey player getting shot? When is the last time you heard of a hockey player having multiple kids with multiple women? The fact is that you don't hear of anything like that. The biggest scandals in hockey are comprised of DUI's and that's about it. Now I'm not saying awful things don't happen in hockey. That would probably be far from accurate. What I am saying though is that if these things do happen in that sport, teams are able to police themselves and keep things in house. That's more than I can say about the other 4 most popular sports. Baseball, football, basketball and college football all have scandals. These scandals fuel the media and their popularity in American culture. Based on these truths, if this is where American sports are headed, I'll be glad to join my Canadian brothers and move to Canada. Not a bad idea, eh?