The lights, the fireworks, and the pizzaz is just the icing on the cake. We like it because of the characters and development, the teams and their relationships, and the pride when one’s team wins is like no other. We like sports for many reasons, and each individual’s reasons are different from another. Understanding the deep-rooted impacts sport as an industry has had on our culture and economy, it’s hard to not notice your town or city decked out in sports gear. From the tv commercials, public advertisements and online websites, the impact of different sports leagues during different times of the year, our views of what we see from a day to day basis have some type of ‘ball’ in it.

The link included represents the page on which many different fans can go and purchase different paraphernalia of their chosen sport and/or team. The site includes all the teams and individuals within the following organizations: NFL (American Football), MLB (Baseball), NBA (Basketball), NHL (Hockey), NASCAR (Speed Racing). It is included to simply give an insight as to the importance of community each team and sport has over their followers. To have enough people wanting to buy a piece of merchandise from a particular team makes it understood that the followers want to be a part of the culture connected to the players.