The Cost Of Sports

Many people spend a lot of their free time watching sports and supporting their favorite teams. A lot of the time families take vacations and usually go to a baseball game or two while they're there. Other times families may buy tickets to watch their favorite football teams play live. Yes it would be a great experience and a very memorable time, but how much would all of that cost? Would people rather watch their favorite sports at home or live at the stadiums? I would personally rather stay home and watch the game than to go out to the stadium and watch my favorite team play. Lets say you're a Cubs fan, and you want to go to a home game at Wrigley field. That's a 5 or 6 hour drive, so you do the math on gas prices. I would expect that I would buy over priced food like an $8 hot dog and $6 bottle of water, and then multiply that cost by the entire family plus the cost of tickets and the cost of the hotel if you weren't planning on driving back right afterwards. That's hundreds of dollars spent just to watch a few minutes of actual baseball. Not to mention you'd be sitting outside in the summer heat sweating. The experience and overall atmosphere can be nice but the convenience and price of sporting events is too much money for the average family to afford several times per year. If I stayed at home with my family and watched the same game at a sports bar like Buffalo Wild Wings or something, I'd only be spending a fraction of the money and driving only 6 minutes instead of 6 hours. The food is probably about the same price but you get more food for your money. A fully meal versus a single item at the stadium. When it comes to sports and entertainment, it's probably better to only go to a football game or baseball game one or two times a year and save your money for something better like a bigger TV to watch future games on. (354)