Sports is a great outlet....and a few (a very few) can go on and really bring it back....everyone else has to get along in a different world....where your sports abilities don't come into issue. It almost seems to me it's just like making the carrot a bit bigger to chase....and again there are a very few people who grab the carrot and a lot of them drop it in a short time....I have a sense this is not a good thing.
It also scares me about what the schools/collages are all about in these times...but that's a whole other monster...