baseball/football worst sports ever?

[Kraftwerk]

The problem isn't sports, the problem is the extremity with which sports are obsessed over in American culture. I like baseball a lot, but I know there are many things more important than basebal and I try to educate myself and stay privy to global and US news as well as enjoy watching my team (Yankees). The problem can really be summed up in the following:

Ask most people in Anerica to name the roster of their favorite sports team, most will be able to on the spot or at least the best players.

Ask those same people to discuss fractional reserve banking and how it impacts all of our lives, most won't know what you're talking about. Ask them about what QE is, how many have taken place and why it directly impacts their real wages and purchasing power, again most won't know what you're talking about and yet it directly impacts them more than anything their team's Quarterback does.

It's an unhealthy obsession with professional sports in America, part of the bigger problem of general apathy towards understanding how the US and global Economy works.