I believe that professional sports has had a major impact on our culture. Professional sports impacts everyone that is interested in that sport. Even if your just a spectator that doesn't even play the sport it can impact your life as an individual. With everything that can impact a culture in a major way there are negative and positive affects.

There are many positive affects of a professional sport in America. First off they can bring people from around the world together. Also the 1 percent of people that play the sport professionally make a lot of money from the sport. For every sport in the world there is people where that sport consumes their entire life even if they dont play it to make money from it. Other positive impacts that Pros have on our culture is it gives some people a person they can to look up too when maybe they dont have a person in their life that they can look up too already. 

There are also negative effects that professional sports can have on our culture. One main effect is people love the sport so much but maybe in the wrong way. There have been thousands of incidents of fans getting harassed and injured just from liking a different team. I do not believe that this is the way to go about problems like this at all.