Pro Sports long ago stopped being something for fans and became a "business".  The last players strike in the NHL, the players repeatedly talked about how it was a business and how they just wanted their piece of the pie, er, profits.  Never once were the fans mentioned as deserving of anything.  The players talked of the their families' security, etc.  The fans were told to stop being selfish (think of the children of the millionaire players!) and just pony up for over priced tickets, overprice merchandise, overpriced concession food and drinks, etc, etc.

It was also the last time I watched games with any regularity!  The world kept turning, life went on.  I wouldn't know a current player's face/name if he was run over by the team bus until I had to read about him in the next day's paper.

Bye bye NHL, not too long for the NFL as it is going...  If a player cries in his mansion, does anyone hear, or care?