"Possibly because the owners of four different teams are all hooked on the junk of TV revenue, they have understandably mistaken their fans for TV viewers, and forgotten that their stadia are more than expensive couches from which to watch a game; they're our modern town halls, the last surviving places where an otherwise solitary, smart-phoned populace can gather with people whose paths they'd never otherwise cross." Nail on the freakin' head.