I'm not a fan of professional competitive sports,because they are sparkling a competitive spirit between men.
Do you mean competitive spirit between sportsmen themselves or between countries they represent?
Professional sportsmen are main actors,participants,first liners,promoters of competitive spirit.But,I mean in generally when I say "men".It effects on men(especially on young,teenagers...) who participate in such an event.For example,if you watched the game,you could see the so called "fans" of our national selection on Romanian stadium clashing with Romanian police and other security staff.
If they didn't come on the game,they wouldn't cause the conflicts.
So,the conflict started because of the raging mob.The mob was stimulated by the game,it sparkled competitive spirit(the spirit of violence in this case) in them,so they behaved like animals in nature(and even worse,because animals do it only for food).That's the purpose of professional (mass)sports today-to support competition between men,to sustain theory of evolution in practice by infecting their souls.
In Serbia we have two major and clubs with most fans-Red Star and Partizan,both from Belgrade.In last 10 years,a few young men were killed on the games in fan's clashes of those clubs.If there was no police on the stadiums they would literally exterminate them selves,to the last one.
On the other hand...Look at this...Those men are very willing to even sacrifice their health and even life on the games(in the clashes) just because of the stupid game,but when our occupying government brings the laws such as allowing homosexuals to be married or arresting our national heroes,they don't give a sh*t about it,and I think there is no need mentioning Kosovo occupation.(forgive me on my language)
That's sick...moral decadence!
So,I don't like mass professional sports.