We like to think of sports as a safe haven from the ugly realities of the world. Often enough, they are. Typically when watching a sporting event, we have the luxury of tuning out of the daily tragedies and heartbreaks, whether it’s in our personal or professional lives or more broadly, in our communities, our countries, even the global community.
Sports can serve as a fantastic unifying force, one that transcends differences in race, gender, social status, income level, religion, political status. More or less all of us can agree to hate the Ravens, or the Browns, or if worse comes to worst, the Patriots.